Das genredurchbrechende Ensemble um den Komponisten und Multiinstrumentalisten Joshua Abrams kehrt zurück mit einer üppig instrumentiert Doppel-LP. “Since Time is Gravity” präsentiert das Kollektiv in erweiterter Form, denn neben dem harten Kern des Ensembles – Abrams selbst (Gimbri & Bass), Lisa Alvarado (Harmonium), Mikel Patrick Avery (Schlagzeug) und Jason Stein (Bassklarinette) – sind diesmal eine ganze Reihe an neuen musikalischen Gästen – Hamid Drake (Percussion), Josh Berman & Ben Lamar Gay (Kornette), Nick Mazzarella und Mai Sugimoto (Altsaxophone & Flöte), Kara Bershad (Harfe) und die in Chicago lebende Legende am Tenorsaxophon Ari Brown – auf den Stücken zu hören. Die Musik wurde live aufgenommen bei Electrical Audio & The Graham Foundation, das Album erscheint bei Aguirre und Eremite Records und ist auch digital erhältlich.
“Since first developing Natural Information Society in 2010, Joshua Abrams has been gradually expanding the group’s conceptual underpinnings, its musical references & the sheer number of the group’s members. Its music is, in a sense, an expansive form of minimalism, based in repeated & overlaid rhythmic patterns, ostinatos & modality. Its roots, its scale & its meaning become clearer in time. If time is gravity, it also allows us to carry more. Having begun as fundamentally a rhythm section with Abrams’ guimbri at its core, the version here can stretch to a tentet, including six horns. Abrams has been expanding his minimalism gradually, but he has long understood a key to minimalism’s potential: the breadth of its roots in the late 1950s & early 1960s, ranging from the dissatisfaction of young European-stream composers with the limitations of serialism to the simultaneous dissatisfaction of jazz musicians with the dense harmonic vocabulary of bop & hard bop”. (Aus einem Essay von Stuart Broomer)