Category: Ravish Momin

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Excited to be part of one of Austin’s most exciting festivals on June 24th!!
Festival line-up includes GABI, I Speak Machine and Graham Lambkin amongst other innovative artists.

Nice Preview in Tiny Mix Tapes, and this from the NMASS site:
[“From June 22-26, local, national, and global performers are converging to offer new collaborations and encourage audiences to think about sound, art, and the various methods of composing and improvising. The idea is to stimulate conversation and contemplation between sets and exhibits, rather than passively watch or listen to a project and then go about your day.”]

We’ve been developing musical networks and communities since ’09 and are increasingly connected to a vast and diverse network of venues and organizations. We are always humbled and honored to be back here… we’re comfortable playing massive outdoor festivals and intimate clubs (which amazingly have proper sound-systems!!)
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We’re excited to share this beautifully shot video from our performance at Millennium Stage (Kennedy Center) on May 1, 2016.
Live blend of *beat-based* electronics in an improvised setting with global musical influences.. ..
Mile Davis meets Sigur Ros in Bollywood 

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Event done and over with… So glad for the support, and deep thanks to the artists and fans for coming out! I’m proud to have put together an event in NYC, having only been given about 3 weeks to make it happen. More importantly, on a humble/small scale, I put together a bold, diverse and forward-thinking genre-blurring line-up missing these days at most venues. Going forward I’m inspired to put together avant-Indonesian, future-Columbian, underground South African, experimental Turkish and far beyond on the same bill, at different venues across NY.   The Village Voice picked us for a preview as well ! Unfortunately, they also left out Selecta K7, who brought a dope left-field dance music vibe from the African diaspora, and Alexandra Momin‘s amazing visuals.

“South Street Seaport’s third Out to See Festival, which runs through April 16, presents performances, workshops, and panels from artists across disciplines in an otherwise artistically void part of Lower Manhattan. For this showcase, drummer Ravish Momin curates a selection of his favorite genre-hopping electronic artists, who use beats, samples, and drum machines in very different ways . Headlining is Momin’s duo Tarana, which plays celestial-sounding electronica that’s kind of danceable and very transfixing. Joining are Brooklyn-via-Haiti producer Val-Inc, whose live set uses vocal and audio sounds from across the world to form a heady atmosphere; BKGD Audio, a lover of ultra-deep beats that you can feel more than hear; and FXWRK, a prolific producer and remixer who’s in the cohort of young up-and-coming artists in Brooklyn’s fertile underground house and techno scene (she’s also the most danceable performer in this lineup). ” By Zoe Leverant 

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I was asked to curate a night at the amazing Out To See Festival at South Street Seaport, on Feb. 4th. For my first ever self-produced event in NYC, I’ve put together a bill of innovative musicians and producers who focus on blurring the lines between performance, live set and DJ sets.  As a collective, these artists draw inspiration from familiar American musical influences like Jazz, R&B, Hip-Hop, & Disco, as well as from  Juke/Footwork from Chicago, Jersey Club, G’com from Durban, South Africa, Haitian Music, Indian Music and far beyond!

The line up is:
VAL-INC (Live-set)
TARANA (Live set)
BKGD AUDIO (DJ set)
SELECTA K7 (DJ set)
FXWRK (DJ set)