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- Record Label: Eremite
- Release Date: Apr 14, 2023
- Summary: The latest full-length release from Chicago's Natural Information Society features contributions from such artists as Josh Berman, Kara Bershad, Ari Brown, Hamid Drake, Ben Lamar Gay, Nick Mazarella, and Mai Sugimoto.
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- Record Label: Eremite
- Genre(s): Jazz, Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz
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Apr 26, 2023The results are every bit as sublime as anything he and his partners in collective aural immersion have ever released.
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Apr 26, 2023It readily embraces, borrows from, and intersects with other musics too. Often his cornucopia of other sounds has (deliberately) overshadowed jazz. That's not true here.
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MojoApr 26, 2023It's Stigmergy, named after a concept of collective action, that best encapsulates the ecstatic NIS groupthink: one hypnotic soloist after another - Ben Lamar Gay, brilliant on coronet - drifting elegantly in and out of systems repetition. [Jun 2023, p.92]
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UncutMay 11, 2023There are star turns from figures like the veteran tenor saxophonist Ari Brown. But this is a collective, community affair - never more so than on "Stigmergy", which sees multiple instruments feeding into a single, glowing master melody. [Jul 2023, p.30]
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Apr 26, 2023Abrams’ music moves through time gracefully, adjusting to the demands of when and where it is performed, and who’s involved. The awe that his music channels lies in its grasp of mutability, tracking subtle changes in repeating patterns—whether from moment to moment or year to year.