Abstract Rhythm in Time DigitalART With eremite records Perseverance Flow by Natural Information Society
Announcing Perseverance Flow, the latest album from acclaimed Chicago-based ensemble Natural Information Society (NIS), release date 2024-10-24. After a trilogy of double LPs by expanded manifestations of the band that began in 2018 with Mandatory Reality & continued through Since Time Is Gravity (a Pitchfork Best Jazz & Experimental Album of the Year selection & Mojo’s #1 Underground Album of 2023), NIS returns to its core formation of Lisa Alvarado on harmonium, Mikel Patrick Avery on drums, Jason Stein on bass clarinet, & composer/multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams on guimbri for one continuous 35 minute composition across a single LP. As the rocket boosters on spaceship earth sputter closer to burnout, lower your stylus into a soundfield that grows stronger the deeper you travel into it; a dose of the medicine many of us look to music to deliver awaits you inside.
One of the deep contemplations of this natural information (thanks Bill Callahan) is the wide range of source materials Abrams draws from over the band’s more than 15 year history: Ideas from minimalism, modal jazz & traditional musics are regularly reimagined in these compositions. The 2021 double LP descension (Out of Our Constrictions), with guest soloist Evan Parker... more
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released October 24, 2025
Joshua Abrams guimbri, electronics, dubs
Lisa Alvarado harmonium, electronics
Mikel Patrick Avery drums
Jason Stein bass clarinet
recorded Electrical Audio, Chicago 2024-03-11
engineer Greg Norman
all artwork from Lisa Alvarado’s -Shape of Artifact Time- exhibition, The Kitchen, NYC 2025
producers Michael Ehlers & Joshua Abrams

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