Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas play a collaborative set at Constellation. Credit: Nolan Chin The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So we ...

The Chicago bands Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas have long seemed like two sides of the same, trancey coin. Both debuted around the same time, in the early 2010s. Both make visual ...

Since Time is Gravity, the latest hypnotic album from Joshua Abrams‘ Natural Information Society, is also credited to Ari Brown, the 80-year-old tenor saxophonist and Chicago legend whose work is ...

Lisa Alvarado and Joshua Abrams work in studios joined by an open doorway in their shared home. Credit: Charlie Gross Chicago composer and musician Joshua Abrams likes to compare the guimbri (aka ...

Since 2010, the Chicago-based Joshua Abrams has led Natural Information Society, underpinning original compositions through his undeniable skills on the double bass and guimbri, a North African ...

The concept of trance is one of the oldest in the world. Many older music forms embraced trance for their rituals. One is the Gnawa musical tradition originating in Kano, Nigeria and Morocco, which ...