Mind Maintenance
Mind Maintenance is an album by the duo of the same name, featuring Joshua Abrams on guimbri and Chad Taylor on mbira. It was released on vinyl in 2021 by the Drag City label.
Prior to the recording of the album, Abrams and Taylor, both multi-instrumentalists, had been playing together for over 25 years in ensembles such as Abrams' Natural Information Society, Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra, and Sam Prekop's band. The album is unusual in that it pairs two instruments that originated in different parts of Africa, and that have no common repertoire, resulting in music that is derived from the distinctive sound of the instruments themselves.
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