Joshua Abrams lives in Chicago where he writes and performs music (primarily on contrabass). Ongoing activities include member of Town and Country (Thrilljockey) , David Boykin's Expanse, and a trio with Chad Taylor and Matana Roberts.

Abrams composes and plays with instruments including contrabass, mbira, sampler, piano, organ, and field recordings of water, whistling, and walking to create self reflective yet sociable sound portraits. His ability to play in ensembles gives his solo project an atmosphere of an experienced music player, while his electronic ear leaves space for the appreciation of the greater sound world unattainable by strings alone. This CD tells us of Chicago attics and Glasgow bridges, as well as concerts in cellars and burnt down bars.

Chicago Tribune:

Joshua Abrams "Busride Interview" (Lucky Kitchen)

Double bassist Joshua Abrams is ubiquitous on Chicago's music scene, where he has worked with such disparate artists as jazz guitarist Bobby Broom, indie-pop crooner Sam Prekop, and the minimalist acoustic ensemble Town And Country. But although his solo debut includes some impressively emotive bowing and plucking, it's also a very approachable piece of electronic composition. Abrams blends the resonant sonorities of his strings with their digitally distorted counterparts and sampled environmental sounds to create an aural expedition that unfolds as confidently and vividly as a story told round the campfire.
Bill Meyer
Published March 3, 2002

...and if you are patient, the sixth track, “everything can be good sometimes”, will remind you of why you came to listen. It begins with water rushing, a looped piano, the piano is doubled and then redoubled, some strings fall in, digital fragments, Abrams loops one of his soft upright bass-lines to keep it all together, and it is so nice.
(D. Dineen) Dusted, USA

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