Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi unveils new album Endling
Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi returns with Endling, his newest album for Erased Tapes set for release on May 30. Written as a modular synth prequel to his 2023 BBC Concert Orchestral work God Docks at Death Harbor, Endling takes the listener on a 43-minute odyssey through an intense and beautiful landscape set hundreds of years into the future.
In Naqvi's own words..
One morning my wife woke from a dream with a phrase in her mind- “God Docks at Death Harbor.” This phrase served as a well spring for two ambitious works. One was a prequel, about the last human being on the planet. An endling, traversing a world centuries into the future. A world decayed and mutated into a strange amalgam of the natural and artificial. I envisioned the music as chapters, following this human through the crumbling landscape of the future, that was now being overtaken and absorbed by the natural world. Making this album was a way for me to process and purify the harshness of the time in which it was made. It was a moment of great anguish and pain for a lot of people. Time then felt and continues to feel dystopic in its own right, like a course that may catch up with the fiction of this record.
