2026-08-13 oslo munch museum
2026-08-15 filipstad music for the eyes
2026-08-16 london cafe oto + coby sey
2026-08-17 london cafe oto + evan parker
2026-08-19 glasgow glad cafe
2026-08-20 dorset we out here festival
2026-08-23 dorset we out here festival

"Led by composer Joshua Abrams, this group was formed in Chicago in 2010 and has won wide acclaim for its extraordinary ancient-to-modern-and-back-again body of work. Abrams plays an electrified guimbri (also known as the sintir), a three-string Moroccan instrument related to the bass guitar, creating a roiling, earth-deep foundation. A number of fine musicians have passed through the ensemble, with the current superb incarnation including Jason Stein on bass clarinet, Mikel Patrick Avery on drums, and longtime member Lisa Alvarado on harmonium. Three of her abstract patterned designs hung above the band, and she took the stage wearing a mod-inflected riot of saturated colors topped by a polka-dot rain hat. The core of the set was devoted to an hour-long work called “Perseverance Flow,” the astonishing title track of their newly released album (Eremite Records). The piece steadily revolves around a mostly two-note phrase, augmented by a soaring melody line. Bursts of sound flared from the harmonium, as the drum patiently stoked the long-simmering groove. With these restrained recurring elements, Natural Information Society burrows into the listener’s consciousness, the thick flow of the music fully hypnotic. The result was the total elastic absorption that results when the minimal turns magical." Scott Gutterman, "The Mirror of Minimalism" thebrooklynrail.com