Natural Information
Label | Aguirre Records – ZORN72 |
Format | Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Repress |
Barcode | 2090405445474 |
Country | Belgium |
Released | 27 Nov 2020 |
Genre | Jazz, Folk, World, & Country |
Style | Avant-garde Jazz |
With Natural Information Abrams entered a new phase of his musical life, extending an invitation to the trance, where time intersects with timelessness. He carried with him a wealth of playing and listening experience. As a bass player he had worked with a host of notable musicians including guitarist Jeff Parker and percussionist Hamid Drake, and had been a member of back porch minimalism outfit Town And Country and the improvising trio Sticks And Stones.The guimbri is a shaping presence on this remarkable recording, but Abrams also plays bass, bells, kora, sampler and synthesizer. Sympathetic friends including guitarist Emmett Kelly, vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and drummers Frank Rosaly and Nori Tanaka join him for the project. They set out not to contrive some neat hybrid but to enable coordinated energies and enriching influences to pulse and flow through living, breathing music. Ten years further into a century seemingly dedicated, as Toffler foresaw, to the survival of the fastest, the deep involving groove of Natural Information seems still more relevant, more illuminating, more vital.Joshua Abrams first Natural Information album from 2010, superb avant-jazz, newly remastered at Dubplates & Mastering and released in an edition of 999 copies on 180gr.
A1 | Mysterious Delirious Fluke Of The Beyond | |
A2 | Abide In Sunset | |
B1 | Dolphin Cave Dazzling | |
B2 | Cabin | |
B3 | In Ex Or Able | |
B4 | A Lucky Stone |
Bass, Bells – Joshua Abrams (B1, B3)
Cover [Screen Printing] – Alan Sherry
Drums – Frank Rosaly (A2, B4)
Drums – Noritaka Tanaka (B1, B3)
Dulcimer – Joshua Abrams (A1)
Guimbri, Sampler [Mpc1000], Percussion, Harmonium – Joshua Abrams (A2, A4)
Guitar – Emmett Kelly (A2, B4)
Kora [Donso Ngoni], Bells, Synthesizer [Ms20] – Joshua Abrams (B2)
Lacquer Cut By – Kassian Troyer
Layout – Eric Schou
Mastered By – Dubplates & Mastering
Painting, Design [Cover] – Lisa Alvarado
Producer – Michael Ehlers
Producer, Composed By – Joshua Abrams
Recorded By – Griffin Rodriguez (A2)
Recorded By – Noritaka Tanaka (B1, B3)
Vibraphone – Jason Adasiewicz (B1, B3)
A1 & B2 recorded at the West Side Cabin
A2 recorded at Shape Shoppe
B1 & B3 recorded at Shevitz's Attic
B4 recorded live at the Hideout
Edition of 999 copies.
Rights Society – ASCAP
Matrix / Runout (Side A) – Kassian@D&M -56102- ZORN72 A
Matrix / Runout (Side B) – Kassian@D&M -56102- ZORN72 B