Record Label Signing and Beyond

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I just signed with FPE Records to bring TurningJewelsIntoWater into the world. Honored to share the roster with Debo Band (who’s “Ethiopiques” influences are among some of my all time fave life-changing records), Nicole M. Mitchell (who’s ‘Mandorla Awakening’ slayed Top 10/2017 charts across the board, and channeled the AACM “ancient to the future’ practice in earnest) and other equally dope genre-bending artists.

Even to get to this starting point, it’s a community effort. Big thanks to my partner Larisa Mann for continuing to have faith in my music, for the incredible talents of Val Jeanty, for Pioneer Works for giving me the space to experiment and create this project, my cousin/ uber producer Alap Momin , for Tristra Newyear Yeager (Rock.Paper.Scissors) for making the intro, and ofcourse to FPE Records, for offering up a ‘turnkey’ operation, from producing vinyl to working as our booking agent. Taking nothing for granted. 

Cover art/design by Pana Li (Diana Castro)

New Project: Turning Jewels Into Water

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The Intersection of Ritual, Improvisation, Global Rhythms and Music-Technology

This new project with composer/ percussionist/turntablist Val Jeanty arose from her participation in a jam session at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, NY while Momin was artist-in-residence there in September of 2017.  Their collaboration, rooted in improvisation shaped by ritual, evokes the esoteric realms of the creative subconscious.  Drawing from the voodoo religion, Val recreates the ancient rhythm and pulse of Haiti through digital beats, while Momin, whose own musical background is rooted Indian, North African and Middle-eastern traditions, has developed an original blend of electro-acoustic beats, drawing together the improvisational traditions in Jazz and South Indian classical music. Together they explore the capabilities of new technologies to create a seamless blend of multiple electronic and acoustic instruments.