World Music Festival Chicago 2011

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Moroccan singer/composer/producer, MALIKA ZARRA is a multi-cultural shape-shifter, an enchantress who leaps effortlessly between seemingly unconnected languages and traditions, uniting them while utilizing each to further enrich the others. The exotically beautiful artist with the velvety, sinuous mezzo-soprano voice has demonstrated a rare ability to communicate both powerful and subtle ideas and feelings in Berber, Moroccan Arabic, French and English now a much-in-demand headliner at concert halls and festivals the world over.

NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY's bassist & composer Joshua Abrams has been in the thick of Chicago's vibrant music scene for over fifteen years, playing & recording as leader & sideman in projects across the genres. In 2010 he released the "Natural Information" on Eremite which the New York Times called "one of the rough gems of the post-everything musical era" and the Wire picked as one of the top 50 records of 2010. He has released three other records under his own name as well as two under the moniker "Reminder" that navigate the realms of jazz & improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, beatmaking, minimalism and field recordings (Delmark/Eastern Developments/Lucky Kitchen). He recently completed his first soundtrack for "The Interrupters" a new movie by Steve James which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

He co-founded the "back porch minimalist" band Town & Country (Thrill Jockey/Box media) & with Matana Roberts & Chad Taylor the trio Sticks & Stones (Thrill Jockey/482 Music). Joshua has appeared on over 50 recordinga including work with Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, Bonny "Prince" Billy, Nicole Mitchell, David Boykin, Sam Prekop, The Roots, Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, Prefuse 73, Savath and Savalis, The Cairo Gang, and The Exploding Star Orchestra. He has performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Anderson trio, Toumani Diabate, Bill Dixon, Tony Conrad, John Tchicai, Rhys Chatham, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Axel Dorner, Damo Suzuki, Bobby Broom, Neil Michael Hagerty, Jandek, Earle Brown, and Craig Taborn. When in Chicago he plays every Tuesday in a trio with Jeff Parker and John Herndon.