The story of Avalanche City begins in a house, alone, for hours each day for months, slowly learning how to sing by process of scales, recording, and self critique. Six months later, Dave Baxter played his first solo show as Avalanche City. Six months after the first show, the first tracks were laid for Avalanche City’s debut album “Our New Life Above The Ground”. Dave headed into the countryside and moved into Kourawhero Hall, and spent the week alone recording and playing everything himself with only the cows and the milk trucks as company.