JOSHUA ABRAMS
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz, African Fusion, World Fusion, Nu Jazz, Eclectic Fusion • United States

For Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society look under Natural Information Society. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams has been in the thick of Chicago's vibrant music scene for over fifteen years, playing & recording as leader & sideman in projects across the genres.  In 2010 he released  "Natural Information" on Eremite which the New York Times called "one of the rough gems of the post-everything musical era" and the Wire picked as one of the top 50 records of 2010. In 2012, he released "Represencing", his 2nd album for Eremite which organizes small group statements around the resonant grooves of the north african ceremonial instrument the guimbri with a unique & broadly assimilative compositional voice.  Sources from traditional musics to minimalism, jazz to krautrock, animate represencing, but Abrams is always grounded in the solidity of true working musicianship & he proves himself an artist fluent not just in styles read more...