Eremite Records: MTE-63/64 (2 LPs) http://eremite.com/album/mte-63-64
* Joshua Abrams : guimbri, bass, celesta, clarinet, small harp, bells * Hamid Drake : frame drum, tabla, conga, trap kit * Emmett Kelly : electric guitar * Jeff Parker : electric guitar * Lisa Alvarado : harmonium * Ben Boye : chromatic electric autoharp
http://www.joshuaabramsfilmmusics.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Drake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Kelly_%28musician%29 http://www.jeffparkersounds.com/ http://www.lisaalvarado.biz/ http://www.benboye.com/
Two track live recording by James Bond at Attica Studios, Berwyn, IL (Illinois, Cook County, United States), on February 2013. Additional recording by Joshua Abrams at Parlor One, Chicago.
Reviews
By Ben Ratliff http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/14/arts/music/new-releases-from-marta-sanchez-cloud-rat-pete-rodriguez-and-more.html
Joshua Abrams’s “Magnetoception” came out on vinyl in mid-May, and I’ve been taking my time absorbing it, which feels appropriate. Mr. Abrams, the improvising bassist from Chicago, gathered a group around him to play music that moves in regular rhythmic paces and according to compositional direction, but slowly, with lots of contemplative space, and with modern and ancient instruments: stand-up bass and electric guitar and drum set, but also a frame drum and a guimbri, the three-string African bass lute associated with the Moroccan Gnawa musicians. Spread across a vinyl double album — or on iTunes, if you like — it’s patient, layered music that’s always heading somewhere, sometimes spare and sometimes complex and shimmering.
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By Eric McDowell http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/08/joshua-abrams-magnetoception-eremite.html
By Bill Meyer http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/121024570127/joshua-abramsmagnetoception-eremite
By Marc Masters http://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/9718-summer-2015-experimental-records-roundup/ http://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9773-the-best-experimental-albums-of-2015/
By Bryon Hayes http://exclaim.ca/music/article/joshua_abrams-magnetoception
Michał Pudło (pl) http://www.screenagers.pl/index.php?service=articles&action=show&id=226
Par Thomas Malésieux (fr) http://www.theartchemists.com/album-joshua-abrams-magnetoception-eremite-records-2015/ |