Preamble, by Qasim Naqvi

Preamble

by Qasim Naqvi

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1.	Preamble 04:49	buy track
2.	Meg Erase Meta 04:07	buy track
3.	Children of the Drawer PT.1 05:57	buy track
4.	Imagined Garages PT.2 05:35	buy track
5.	Behind Stars 02:44	buy track
6.	Aero 05:08	buy track
7.	Esc. 03:10	buy track

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"Perhaps “abstract modern composition” best describes Preamble, a record perfectly suited to its title. Composed by Dawn Of Midi’s Qasim Naqvi and realized by the Contemporary Music Ensemble of NYU, Preamble is a thrilling, sonorous maze of conservatory gestures that stops just short of cohering into anything continuous or definitive.

Grouped, these carefully carved mini-movements confound one another like opposing weather fronts, swinging through moods without quite resolving into a full-fledged schizophrenia. But impressionism is hardly a crime, and the disappointment of Preamble is its brevity; half an hour is hardly long enough to truly get lost in the drift on offer here."

—Raymond Cummings / Magnet Magazine

credits

released November 13, 2015

Composed and Conducted by Qasim Naqvi
Performed by the Contemporary Music Ensemble of NYU under the direction of Jonathan Haas
Recorded by Aaron Roche at the Church of the Advent of Hope, Manhattan NY
Mixed and Mastered by Andrew Munsey

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Qasim Naqvi New York

Makes noise and drummer of Dawn of Midi

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May 3

BRIC Arts Media House

Brooklyn, NY
May 4

Public Records

New York (NYC), NY

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Chronology

Jul 2021
Beta

Jul 2020
Teenages

May 2019
FILM

Sep 2017
Preamble

Nov 2015
Fjoloy

Aug 2014
Landscape Study

Oct 2015

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