Ravish Momin (AKA Sunken Cages) in the News
‡Featured Remix Artist for Depeche Mode’s latest EP (My Favourite Stranger Remixes 2024)
‡Featured in The Fader (Feb 16, 2023)
“The new track, which features NY-based percussionist and producer Sunken Cages, is a collagic endeavor,
fusing innovative sampling techniques with a jittery modular synth, an elastic drum line (courtesy of Cages)”
‡Featured in The Quietus (April 26, 2023)
Meanwhile, lead single ‘The Source’ [produced by Sunken Cages] is funk-infused from the get-go, electronic sounds saturating the empty space, followed by a wailing sax, echoing dizzyingly around the beat.
Bio
Sunken Cages is the solo-project of drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin. Momin studied with US Jazz master-drummer Andrew Cyrille. He has worked as a sideman with a wide array of musicians including pop star Shakira and US Jazz legend Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre (AACM/Chicago.) In the past, he led ‘Tarana,’ a shapeshifting experimental global-Jazz group on international and domestic stages.
His current projects include Turning Jewels Into Water, a duo with Val Jeanty, as well as other duos with dragonchild (DA Mekonnen of Debo Band) and Faraway Ghost (Iranian singer/songwriter Kamyar Arsani.) As Sunken Cages, Momin plays electronic drums. While rooted in Indian and Black Music traditions, he is also influenced by the street sounds of underground dance music from Sao Paolo to Durban to Mumbai.
He has done remixes for Depeche Mode, global electronic music producers Batida (Portugal), Babani Sound System (Mauritius) and Guedra Guedra (Morocco). He has worked with with Akuphone, On The Corner Records, FPE Records, Delmark Records, CleanFeed & Entropy Records
His recent performance highlights include the Alternative Brains Rule Festival (Cyprus), Free Forma Impulse VX (Italy), Words/Beat/ Life Festival (Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage (US)), Big Ears Festival (US), LeGuessWho? Festival (NL), Positive Futures Festival (AT), Lincoln Center Outdoors Festival (NYC, US), Slingshot Festival (US) and Festival Congedi (IT)
He is also the recipient of grants from New Music USA, The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, NYC Arts In Education Roundtable, Arts International, Meet The Composer and NYSCA (New York State Council of the Arts)
Recent Press
Memphis Magazine (Weekend Pick)
“This show is a unique hybrid between live performance and production. You’ll also hear the influence of street sounds from underground dance music from Sao Paolo to Durban to Mumbai and beyond. The masterful mix of acoustic and electronic drums and cultures makes for a musical experience not to miss.”
“In recent years, drummer and producer Ravish Momin, AKA Sunken Cages, has chalked up a solid track record of cross-breeding production techniques, with an impressive level of innovation.”
Live Performance Videos:
Live from Moods-1, Zurich (Nov, ’23)
Live from Moods-2, Zurich (Nov, ’23)
(Live from Pine Studios, Philadelphia, PA, 2024)