Joshua Abrams

Represencing is the second installment of the Joshua Abrams sound world introduced on his 2010 eremite album Natural Information. Recorded at home in Chicago summer of 2011, Abrams again 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 but traditions.

PERSONNEL:

• Joshua Abrams - guimbri, organ, ms20, harps, bells, harmonium, mpc
• Chad Taylor - gong & drums (1,2)
• David Boykin - tenor saxophone (1,3)
• Emmett Kelly - electric & acoustic guitars (4,7,9)
• Mikel Avery - drums (4,5)
• Lisa Alvarado - gong & harmonium (4,7,8,9)
• Tomeka Reid - cello (5)
• Nicole Mitchell - flutes (6)
• Jason Stein - bass clarinet (6)
• Jeff Parker - electric guitar (8)
• Michael Zerang: tambourine (8)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. San Anto
• A2. Represencing
• A3. Moon Hunger

• SIDE B
• B1. Sound Talisman
• B2. Sungazer
• B3. The Ba
• B4. Enter Mountain Amulet
• B5. Cloud Walking