Qasim Naqvi - Endling (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Qasim Naqvi
- Title: Endling
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Erased Tapes Records
- Genre: Ambient
- Quality: FLAC 24/96000
- Total Time: 00:42:45
- Total Size: 756 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Album review
Qasim Naqvi's oeuvre is impressively multifaceted. He plays drums in the trio Dawn of Midi, a group that crafts jazz-leaning minimalist improvisations. His compositions have been performed by the NOW Ensemble, the Helsinki Chamber Choir, yMusic, and other groups. Additionally, Naqvi has written film scores, collaborated with dancers, and exhibited sound art. Two Centuries—an excellent 2022 release by Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith, and Andrew Cyrille—displayed his subtle touch on modular synthesizers.
On 2025's Endling, Naqvi uses synths to create a compelling piece of program music. The album's title refers to the last person on earth—the Endling. The narrative, which takes place in the far future, imagines this solitary figure traveling across a transformed globe. (Naqvi describes Endling as a prequel to his composition "God Docks at Death's Harbor," a tone poem for a post-human planet.)
"Fires," the opener, starts off with a low, staticky drone that morphs into a grand, slightly foreboding sound-mass featuring melodic strands with horn-like qualities. The track creates a sense of awe and anticipation.
On "Power Down the Heart," the Endling encounters an AI entity in its last moments of existence. Poet and musician Moor Mother gives voice to the dying AI's observations. Drones and rumbles accompany the eerie, electronically altered utterances. Moor Mother's even-toned performance provides listeners with space to find their own responses to the AI's recollections.
The title of "Plastic Glacier" evokes a futuristic landscape where the natural and the artificial have melded. It's a spare, low-key piece. The timbre and flow of the rounded tones might imply resignation or possibly an end-of-the-species calmness. But there's a twist: toward the end, a dissonance arises that's tinged by the ominous.
The title cut throbs and hums with whooshing and clicking. There's an unsettled vibe; or is this simply the way this futuristic world sounds? Are those insects we hear, or new, unimagined creatures—a reminder that life will go on without humankind?
"The Great Reward," the closer, begins with a pulsing note before a powerful sonic cloud drifts in, filling the audio spectrum. There's a feeling of sublime grandeur, even teary-eyed glory, before the track sharply cuts off. © Fred Cisterna
Tracklist:
01-01 Qasim Naqvi - Fires [3:41]
01-02 Qasim Naqvi - Beautification Technologies [4:54]
01-03 Qasim Naqvi - The Glow [3:53]
01-04 Qasim Naqvi - Power Down the Heart [3:41]
01-05 Qasim Naqvi - Plastic Glacier [7:13]
01-06 Qasim Naqvi - Endling [6:46]
01-07 Qasim Naqvi - In the Distance [8:23]
01-08 Qasim Naqvi - The Great Reward [4:14]
Qasim Naqvi's oeuvre is impressively multifaceted. He plays drums in the trio Dawn of Midi, a group that crafts jazz-leaning minimalist improvisations. His compositions have been performed by the NOW Ensemble, the Helsinki Chamber Choir, yMusic, and other groups. Additionally, Naqvi has written film scores, collaborated with dancers, and exhibited sound art. Two Centuries—an excellent 2022 release by Naqvi, Wadada Leo Smith, and Andrew Cyrille—displayed his subtle touch on modular synthesizers.
On 2025's Endling, Naqvi uses synths to create a compelling piece of program music. The album's title refers to the last person on earth—the Endling. The narrative, which takes place in the far future, imagines this solitary figure traveling across a transformed globe. (Naqvi describes Endling as a prequel to his composition "God Docks at Death's Harbor," a tone poem for a post-human planet.)
"Fires," the opener, starts off with a low, staticky drone that morphs into a grand, slightly foreboding sound-mass featuring melodic strands with horn-like qualities. The track creates a sense of awe and anticipation.
On "Power Down the Heart," the Endling encounters an AI entity in its last moments of existence. Poet and musician Moor Mother gives voice to the dying AI's observations. Drones and rumbles accompany the eerie, electronically altered utterances. Moor Mother's even-toned performance provides listeners with space to find their own responses to the AI's recollections.
The title of "Plastic Glacier" evokes a futuristic landscape where the natural and the artificial have melded. It's a spare, low-key piece. The timbre and flow of the rounded tones might imply resignation or possibly an end-of-the-species calmness. But there's a twist: toward the end, a dissonance arises that's tinged by the ominous.
The title cut throbs and hums with whooshing and clicking. There's an unsettled vibe; or is this simply the way this futuristic world sounds? Are those insects we hear, or new, unimagined creatures—a reminder that life will go on without humankind?
"The Great Reward," the closer, begins with a pulsing note before a powerful sonic cloud drifts in, filling the audio spectrum. There's a feeling of sublime grandeur, even teary-eyed glory, before the track sharply cuts off. © Fred Cisterna
Tracklist:
01-01 Qasim Naqvi - Fires [3:41]
01-02 Qasim Naqvi - Beautification Technologies [4:54]
01-03 Qasim Naqvi - The Glow [3:53]
01-04 Qasim Naqvi - Power Down the Heart [3:41]
01-05 Qasim Naqvi - Plastic Glacier [7:13]
01-06 Qasim Naqvi - Endling [6:46]
01-07 Qasim Naqvi - In the Distance [8:23]
01-08 Qasim Naqvi - The Great Reward [4:14]
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