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Joshua Abrams // Represencing LP

Joshua Abrams // Represencing LP

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We have received a large amount of Aguirre Records, a long-established experimental label in Leuven, Belgium.

This work is a record of psychedelic writer Joshua Abrams.

Description by Eremite:

"represencing is the second installment of the joshua abrams sound world introduced on his 2010 eremite album natural information. & 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. embrace his polyglot approach. goaded (the guimbri is partly constructed from animal-hide) by abrams to focus on a particular facet of their vocabularies, jeff parker & emmett kelly appear as finely contrasting rhythm guitarists, michael zerang gets virtuosic on a tambourine & david boykin devotes himself to altissimo long-tones & circular breathing. others perform more structu ral roles, such as jason stein's bass clarinet, or, as with nicole mitchell's diaphanous choir of flute parts, function as landscape. The moondog-influenced "sungazer" is an aria for tomeka reid's spirited cello. sub "bass, harmonium & organ return as unifying coloristic elementsabrams likens the overall experience to "entering a forest from different directions," & cites as inspirations the AACM, don cherry, arnold dreyblatt, hamza el din, popul vuh, pharaoh sanders, & sandy bull's duets with billy higgins.

any one of these pieces would play fantastically as all-night trance music but abrams opts instead to miniaturize his environments, teasing the open &'endless' forms of the compositions to present poetic episodes that imply sonic vastness. is the ten minute title track, a duo with drummer chad taylor that is a tour de force of two brilliant rhythm players improvising to the omega point.

pitchfork staff list top ten albums 2012
magnet magazine best of 2012 jazz / improv
baltimore city paper 2012 top ten experimental & avant-garde records
ni kantu best of 2012 list
matador records matablog top fifteen records 2012
KDHX DJs top 10 albums 2012
stupid scientific best vinyl albums 2012
reckless records staff best-of 2012
foxy digitalis vinyl best only release 2012
village voice pazznjop 2012
downbeat 4 star review"

Artist: Joshua Abrams

Label: Aguirre

We have received a large amount of Aguirre Records, a long-established experimental label in Leuven, Belgium.

This work is a record of psychedelic writer Joshua Abrams.

Description by Eremite:

"represencing is the second installment of the joshua abrams sound world introduced on his 2010 eremite album natural information. & 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. embrace his polyglot approach. goaded (the guimbri is partly constructed from animal-hide) by abrams to focus on a particular facet of their vocabularies, jeff parker & emmett kelly appear as finely contrasting rhythm guitarists, michael zerang gets virtuosic on a tambourine & david boykin devotes himself to altissimo long-tones & circular breathing. others perform more structu ral roles, such as jason stein's bass clarinet, or, as with nicole mitchell's diaphanous choir of flute parts, function as landscape. The moondog-influenced "sungazer" is an aria for tomeka reid's spirited cello. sub "bass, harmonium & organ return as unifying coloristic elementsabrams likens the overall experience to "entering a forest from different directions," & cites as inspirations the AACM, don cherry, arnold dreyblatt, hamza el din, popul vuh, pharaoh sanders, & sandy bull's duets with billy higgins.

any one of these pieces would play fantastically as all-night trance music but abrams opts instead to miniaturize his environments, teasing the open &'endless' forms of the compositions to present poetic episodes that imply sonic vastness. is the ten minute title track, a duo with drummer chad taylor that is a tour de force of two brilliant rhythm players improvising to the omega point.

pitchfork staff list top ten albums 2012
magnet magazine best of 2012 jazz / improv
baltimore city paper 2012 top ten experimental & avant-garde records
ni kantu best of 2012 list
matador records matablog top fifteen records 2012
KDHX DJs top 10 albums 2012
stupid scientific best vinyl albums 2012
reckless records staff best-of 2012
foxy digitalis vinyl best only release 2012
village voice pazznjop 2012
downbeat 4 star review"

Artist: Joshua Abrams

Label: Aguirre