"Tarana is boldly bringing live electronic beats and sounds into unusual/challenging rhythms. Using bass-synths, layered electronic beats/loops that are tweaked in real-time, along with Indian melodies, global rhythms and Jazz-improvisations, they blend the acoustic and electronic to create music "easily categorized as jazz, traditional music, electronica, or more likely, some unholy combination of all three. "(WNYC)"
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Dear Friends of Creative Music:
Our May tour of Mexico was a great success! I've always found Mexico to have open-minded audiences and promoters alike. We played diverse venues, ranging from jazz-clubs to concert halls.
This tour also brought about a breakthrough, where we'd arrived at a sound where the music strolled through Oslo, Addis-Ababa, Lagos and Mumbai. "Ancient to the future," to quote the AACM adage. While I've been experimenting with live loops/electronics for over 4 years now, I finally began to find a way to seamless integerate the electronic into the acoustic elements, as evidenced in this clip : LIVE @ FUNDACION SEBASTIAN: http://youtu.be/
JUNE PERFORMANCE
Still finalizing late Summer/Fall tours, but we're happy to report a rare local gig, in the meanwhile. Tarana (as duo with trombonist Rick Parker) is performing at Casa Mezcal on THURSDAY, JUNE 21ST, 2012 @ 8PM. Also, Giovanni E. (Sweet Electra) will be DJ-ing some global beat tunes, including his original mixes after the show.
Still finalizing late Summer/Fall tours, but we're happy to report a rare local gig, in the meanwhile. Tarana (as duo with trombonist Rick Parker) is performing at Casa Mezcal on THURSDAY, JUNE 21ST, 2012 @ 8PM. Also, Giovanni E. (Sweet Electra) will be DJ-ing some global beat tunes, including his original mixes after the show.
"Tarana is boldly bringing live electronic beats and sounds into unusual/challenging rhythms. Using bass-synths, layered electronic beats/loops that are tweaked in real-time, along with Indian melodies, global rhythms and Jazz-improvisations, they blend the acoustic and electronic to create music easily categorized as jazz, traditional music, electronica, or more likely, some unholy combination of all three. " (Marlon Bishop,WNYC- National Public Radio Affiliate)RECENT PRESS QUOTES FOR TARANA:" Few groups stretch the boundaries of jazz further than Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana, which performed Friday night at the Andy Warhol Museum. They build beautiful, utterly unpredictable improvisations from elements as disparate as Indian classical music, electronic music and a vast panoply of East Asian rhythms." (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
