Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas emerged from different corners of Chicago’s music scene, but the commonalities between the two ensembles made their collaborations feel inevitable. Joshua ...

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 ...

The first thing that will catch your eye at a Natural Information Society concert most likely won’t be the seated musicians but rather the woven banners that hang behind them at every show. These ...

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 ...