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Ravish Momin

Ravish Momin was born in Hyderabad, India, and spent his childhood in Bombay, and Bahrain (Middle East). He grew up listening to a wide array of Asian Music. Trio Tarana’s music is specific to the interpretations of various Asian musical traditions, including the music of Japanese Taiko Drum Ensembles, Afghani folk songs, Hindu chants and North/South Indian rhythm cycles, while being based in non-idiomatic improvisation.

Background

Momin obtained a B.Sc in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has studied drumset with Andrew Cyrille, Bob Moses, and Ian Froman. He has also studied North Indian Classical percussion with Misha Masud, a disciple of Pandit Taranth Rao.

Performing Experience

Sam Bardfeld, Jason Kao Hwang, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Pam Kurstin, Ursel Schlicht's Ex Tempore, Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre and the Light, Sabir Mateen Quintet/ Juxtapositions, Robert Dick, Roy Campbell & the East/West Ensemble, Brad Shepik & the Commuters, Joe Giardullo's Post/Time, Mossa Bildner's IHOT, Gabriele Hasler, J.D. Parran, Jamie Baum, Andrew Lamb, William Parker, Rinde Eckert, Susie Ibarra, Billy Bang, Steve Swell, Peter Epstein, Bob Moses, Brian Smith, Daniel Carter, Jim Black, Will Connell, Wilber Morris, Raphe Malik, Kali Fasteau, Ian Williams, Tomas Ulrich, Dan DeChellis, Danny Zanker, Kid Lucky, Oktopus (from Dalek), Marie Afonso, Laura Andel, Ty Braxton, Brandon Terzic, Balla Kouyate, Fay Victor, Joel Newton, Thomson Kneeland, Ken Filiano, Tanya Kalmanovitch, Jason Finkelman, Daniel Kelly, MC Napolean (of IsWhat?!)

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Album Review

Tarana: After The Disquiet

Read "After The Disquiet" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


After the Disquiet is a beguiling EP from Tarana, a duo consisting of drummer Ravish Momin and violinist Trina Basu. Recorded live in March 2011, After the Disquiet finds Momin laying down a variety of acoustic drum beats while adding his own real-time electronic manipulations. Over this, Basu adds Eastern-themed improvisations. The sound quality is not perfect here; there is a fair amount of room ambiance in the recording, but the absorbing music is worth diving into all the same. ...

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Interview

Ravish Momin: The Business of Time

Read "Ravish Momin: The Business of Time" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Drummer Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana is one of the most consistently rewarding and intriguing groups to grace the roster of Portugal's Clean Feed Records. Formed in 2003, the group has notably featured violin and oud as its instrumental color of choice in staggeringly complex yet hard-swinging compositions. Momin--and Tarana--are a genre-fogging unit, blending jazz improvisation with forms from South and East Asia and North Africa. However, this mixing of genres is endemic to Momin's working methods and has expanded to ...

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Ravish Monin's Trio Tarana: Miren (A Longing)

Read "Miren (A Longing)" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Drummer/percussionist Ravish Momin has bragging rights to this Middle and Far Eastern style of thrusting progressive jazz. Funny, because it seems so natural and untainted, as if it was meant to be. And he doesn't need a bassist, largely due to his booming bass drum sound and polyrhythmic articulations. This trio covers many musical vistas on Miren (A Longing). Complex, yet easily attainable, where jazz gets a makeover abetted by Sam Bardfeld's streaming violin phrasings and Brandon Terzic's multi-functional performances ...

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Ravish Momin's Bombay, Bahrain & Blues Mix

Read "Ravish Momin's Bombay, Bahrain & Blues Mix" reviewed by Mark Corroto


You have to chuckle when you read a music review and the critic drops names and music styles in such an audacious manner that you know he/she has no idea what they are talking about. “The Spanish mellophone player drew heavily from a Transylvanian tradition..." Yeah, right.

But then again, the beauty of the modern--dare I say, world--music experience is the unknown (to the listener) and the unexplored. Jazz has always been right there, 100 years ago fusing the African ...

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Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana: :FiveNights:

Read ":FiveNights:" reviewed by Elliott Simon


If cutting-edge music presages the course that society will take, then this release from Trio Tarana indicates that at some point we will be heading down the right path. Percussionist Ravish Momin leads a trio of musicians with diverse ethnic backgrounds with the stated purpose “of sharing their unique Asian-American musical concept and identity with different audiences, worldwide."

With Five Nights, recorded live at Washington DC's beautiful Freer Gallery of Art amidst their excellent Asian collections, the band has exceeded ...

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Ravish Momin: Climbing the Banyan Tree

Read "Climbing the Banyan Tree" reviewed by Clifford Allen


For his second date as a leader in five years, drummer Ravish Momin has assembled a trio with a truly diverse range of interests and a value expanding on much of the Afro-Asian influence that has entered the jazz canon. Late of Kalaparush and The Light and the groups of reedman Sabir Mateen, Momin studied tabla and Indian rhythms in addition to jazz drumming, and this fleetness comes through in his approach to the kit--his drumsticks tapping the snare with ...

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Ravish Momin and Trio Tarana: Climbing the Banyan Tree

Read "Climbing the Banyan Tree" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Drummer Ravish Momin, for his second date as a leader in five years (the other being Sound Dissolving Sound, on Sachimay) has assembled a trio with a truly diverse range of interests and a value expanding on much of the Afro-Asian influence that has entered the jazz canon. Late of Kalaparush and The Light and the groups of reedman Sabir Mateen, Momin studied tabla and Indian rhythms in addition to jazz drumming, and this fleetness comes through in his approach ...

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Drummer Ravish Momin Interviewed at AAJ

Drummer Ravish Momin Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Drummer Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana is one of the most consistently rewarding and intriguing groups to grace the roster of Portugal's Clean Feed Records. Formed in 2003, the group has notably featured violin and oud as its instrumental color of choice in staggeringly complex yet hard-swinging compositions. Momin--and Tarana--are a genre-fogging unit, blending jazz improvisation with forms from South and East Asia and North Africa. However, this mixing of genres is endemic to Momin's working methods and has expanded to ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

After The Disquiet

Self Produced
2011

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Miren (A Longing)

Clean Feed Records
2007

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:FiveNights:

Not Two Records
2006

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Climbing the Banyan...

Clean Feed Records
2005

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