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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)

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So excited to have an audio track from the new album premiere on Thump|Vice ! We even made their front page for a hot minute 🙂
From the article: “On Tarana’s new single “Keherwa,” the project’s latest lineup features only one other musician, trombonist Rick Parker. Recorded live, the track was created without any overdubs, and you can really tell in the way it moves gracefully from moment to moment without a clear map of its trajectory, splicing together snippets of acid house, jazz, and psych in a gesture toward vibrant transcendence.”

Stream the track below, and purchase it as part of Tarana’s new LP A Fire of Flowers Grows Around Us on Wondermachine music.

We had an amazing tour of Mexico in April 2015! We made a concerted effort to connect with electronic music presenters as well as young audiences.  We were honored to have been presented by Otoño en Hiroshima, MOD. Encuentros de música electrónica viva. as well as Fonoteca Nacional amongst various other amazing promoters/venues. We also received some incredible press from Thump|VICE, El Fanzine, La Jornada and an astoundingly comprehensive interview/review in Ibero 90.0 FM, some of the most well-known music sites in Mexico.