Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception (2015)

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/