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Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Andrew Cyrille: drums
Qasim Naqvi: modular synth, drums (tracks 6 & 8)

Recorded May 2021 at The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn NY

Editor's info:
Two Centuries is the collabrative album between venerated jazz legends Wadada Leo Smith and Andrew Cyrille, with Pakistani-American electronic experimentalist, composer and drummer, Qasim Naqvi. It will be out on October 7th via Red Hook Records.
Red Hook Records is a new label launched in 2020 by former ECM producer Sun Chung. It aims to dissolve musical boundaries through the interweaving of musical genres and the exploration of intercultural collaborations. Among the label’s new upcoming releases are projects with Kit Downes, Jason Moran, BlankFor.ms, Bill Frisell, and Wadada Leo Smith.

"Killer!"
Gilles Peterson

“Exquisitely constructed…They are not landscapes to be admired at a distance, but inscapes to be explored with attentive care.”
The Wire

"…a significant avant highlight in 2022 landing post abstract expressionist in a serene oasis of sound"
Stephen Graham - Marlbank

"Two Centuries is solace for the soul."
Chris May - All That Jazz

"The album is a masterful study in texture and contrast."
Qobuz

wnycstudios.org
The premiere from drummer and synthesist Qasim Naqvi. We first met Qasim Naqvi as the drummer in the trio Dawn Of Midi, a group that played propulsive, groove-based “electronic” music on acoustic piano, bass, and drums. Lately, he’s been composing choral works, chamber music, and working with a modular analog synthesizer that he has patched together (literally, that’s how you attach the modules to each other to make the instrument work). In October, Naqvi will release Two Centuries, a collaborative LP with two of his teachers, composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and drummer Andrew Cyrille. Qasim plays his modular synth. Fans of the jazz avant-garde will know both Smith and Cyrille as veterans capable of impressive bursts of sound, and .......
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