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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. One of electronic music's most influential bands, INFORMATION SOCIETY (or INSOC as ...

Such lifeforce-level urgency propels Natural Information Society. While rooted in jazz composition, world music and indie-rock eclecticism, NIS also favors the kind of churning, ever-evolving rhythmic ...

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 ...

Like many bands, Information Society had a humble beginning. “We were just dumb kids a year out of high school,” said producer/songwriter Paul Robb. “We were complaining that there weren’t any bands ...

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 ...