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Peter Hanson is a violinist who played in John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and various other period device ensembles. In 1993 he co-founded the Eroica Quartet, an ensemble specialized in rediscovering and reviving a geniune nineteenth-century performing design for strings, and it is its initial violinist.

In the relative isolation of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the mid-1960s, Chants R&B developed a sound heavily indebted towards the raunchiest & most R&B-influenced bands from the British Invasion, like the Rolling Stones, Them, as well as the Yardbirds. Just two singles had been released through the band’s life time, …