Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Simultonality (Eremite)
Composer and bass ace Joshua Abrams’ has been pulling the strings, literally, in Chicago’s post-rock, jazz and free-improv scenes for the last fifteen-odd years. He’s played with everyone from the late great Fred Anderson and Matana Roberts plus he cofounded country-bent minimalists Town and Country. But it’s in his own Natural Information Society—the rotating door ensemble of avant-heads of which he pilots—where Abrams has made his experimental star-making turn. That came through in flying colors on 2015’s Magnetoception and continues full-throttle on the dizzying and exhilarating pulsations bursting from the cosmically groovy seams of Simultonality. With Tortoise’y futuristic electro-prog throbs mixed with Alice Coltrane-esque psych-jazz spirituality and dripping with North African-inspired string-bending psychedelia (check out Abrams’ magical wielding of the guimbri, a three stringed lute from Morocco commonly used by Gnawan musicians), Abrams & Natural Information Society move body, mind and spirit on Simultonality.
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