Dawn of Midi

Dawn of Midi are pianist Amino Belyamani, bassist Aakaash Israni and drummer Qasim Naqvi, who met as students at CalArts before settling in Brooklyn. Their first album, First, was freely improvised. They then turned that approach around and wrote music built entirely on strict repetition.

On Dysnomia the three play a single continuous set of interlocking patterns, with Belyamani muting the piano strings by hand so the instrument sounds closer to a plucked or percussive one. Small rhythmic shifts carry the music from one section to the next, and they play the pieces live from memory. Naqvi also records as a composer of electronic and modular synthesiser music.