Qasim Naqvi, Caroline Davis, Grey Mcmurray - Trappings of Sleep (2026) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Qasim Naqvi, Caroline Davis, Grey Mcmurray
- Title: Trappings of Sleep
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: Red Hook Records
- Genre: Contemporary Jazz
- Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/96 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
- Total Time: 00:44:35
- Total Size: 165; 337; 910 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Trappings of Sleep is a recording by a trio of saxophonist Caroline Davis (alto saxophone), guitarist Grey McMurray, and drummer and electronics player Qasim Naqvi. The music moves constantly between chamber-like intimacy and intensity: each instrument listens to the others and responds in real time, reshaping the whole. Its central theme is the space between sound and silence.
The title plays on a paradox: “trappings” hints at captivity, yet sleep here is the oldest technology of escape, a private cosmos the mind enters without engines. The musicians treat dreaming as space travel: the pieces drift and listen, searching for life elsewhere, and find habitable zones within the relational field of the instruments themselves. The trio’s Goldilocks zone is a liminal band where difference becomes breathable rather than divisive.
Chamber-like patience combined with improvisational risk is now part of jazz’s living condition, which is why the album feels current, imagining the future as a navigational trajectory.
Tracklist:
1. Qasim Naqvi - Three
2. Qasim Naqvi - Out of the Way of it
3. Qasim Naqvi - Mono Lake
4. Qasim Naqvi - Trappings of Sleep
5. Qasim Naqvi - The Toy
6. Qasim Naqvi - Say it
7. Qasim Naqvi - Media Training
8. Caroline Davis - Pulse
9. Qasim Naqvi - Joust
The title plays on a paradox: “trappings” hints at captivity, yet sleep here is the oldest technology of escape, a private cosmos the mind enters without engines. The musicians treat dreaming as space travel: the pieces drift and listen, searching for life elsewhere, and find habitable zones within the relational field of the instruments themselves. The trio’s Goldilocks zone is a liminal band where difference becomes breathable rather than divisive.
Chamber-like patience combined with improvisational risk is now part of jazz’s living condition, which is why the album feels current, imagining the future as a navigational trajectory.
Tracklist:
1. Qasim Naqvi - Three
2. Qasim Naqvi - Out of the Way of it
3. Qasim Naqvi - Mono Lake
4. Qasim Naqvi - Trappings of Sleep
5. Qasim Naqvi - The Toy
6. Qasim Naqvi - Say it
7. Qasim Naqvi - Media Training
8. Caroline Davis - Pulse
9. Qasim Naqvi - Joust
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