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Saturday, April 14th Ravish Momin's Tarana Featuring Ravish Momin, drums; Trina Basu, violin & percussion; Aakash Mittal, saxophone
The duo features the unique instrumentation of violin (Trina Basu) and percussion, and primarily utilizes LIVE electronica, layered East-Asian rhythms and folk-melodies as the foundation for a new creative musical experience. Ravish Momin cut his jazz teeth performing/recording with members of the US based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). They had released a critically acclaimed debut entitled “Climbing the Banyan Tree” in 2004, on the Portugal-based CleanFeed Record Label. Of their debut CD, AllAboutJazz.com had said: “It is fair to say that Trio Tarana is without precedent in the world of improvised music. A true synthesis of North African, South and East Asian motifs with classical organization and the immediacy of free improvisation has probably not existed prior to “Climbing the Banyan Tree.” Their follow-up CD, “Miren” (2007) was also very well-received. On the world stage, most notably, they have performed at The San Servolo Jazz Meeting (Venice, Italy, 2010), The Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada, 2010), LolaFest (Canada, 2010), Aguascalientes Music Festival (Mexico, 2010), The Calgary Jazz Festival (Canada, 2009), Jazz Lent (Maribor, Slovenia, 2009), Cultural Festival Zacatecas (Mexico 2009), Jazz Ao Centro Festival (Coimbra, Portugal, 2008), Yardbird Suite Jazz Club (Edmonton, Canada, 2008, 2007), The Mediawave Festival (Hungary, 2006), The Jazzin’ Tondela (Portugal, 2005), The Taipei Arts Festival (Taiwan, 2004), and have toured Europe several times. They have also toured in China, Mexico, Lebanon and the UK. In the US, they've performed at the prestigious Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery (Washington, DC), New York City’s Rubin Museum of Art on multiple occasions, The Warhol Museum, The Detroit Institute of Art, the New Music Circle (St. Louis, MO), 9th Annual Asian American Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL, 2004), amongst other venues. They have also been recently featured in TimeOUT Magazines (London, Lisbon, HongKong and Chicago), Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Saint Louis Magazine, The Edmonton Journal, ‘Village Voice’ (New York), ‘Jazz.pt’ (Portugal) and in ‘JazzImprov’ (France), Redstar Magazine (China) amongst various other domestic and international publications. |
