Ravish Momin

DRUMS, PERCUSSION, TABLA

Contact: (646) 752-2533; ravish@ravishmomin.com Website: http://www.ravishmomin.com

Education
B.A/B.S., Carnegie Mellon University; Drumset instruction with Andrew Cyrille, Ian Froman, Bob Moses;
Tabla instruction with Jim Dispirito (disciple of Zakir Hussain)

Awarded
Arts International Grant for Artists in International Festivals 2002
Music/OMI Artist Residency Program, Omi, NY 2001

Feature Articles/Interviews
All About Jazz- NY March 2003
Pittsburgh Tribune Review August 2001
In Pittsburgh Newsweekly April 2001

Current Projects (Also see Projects page on Website for more information about current projects.)
Joe Giardullo Quintet (with Joe McPhee, Roy Campbell, Adam Lane)
Ursel Schlicht’s Ex Tempore (with Jamie Baum, Tomas Ulrich, Hakim Ludin, Gabriele Hasler)
Kalaparush and the Light (with Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, Jesse Dulman)
Susie Ibarra-Ravish Momin Percussion Duo
Sabir Mateen Quintet (with Raphe Malik, Jane Wang, Raymond King)
I/O (with Lee Robinson)
Minute After (with Jason Kao Hwang, Shanir Blumenkranz)- as Leader
Collapsing Symmetry (with Pamelia Kurstin, Michael Berk)- as Leader

Festivals/Highlights
Guelph Jazz Festival, Canada (2003); Chicago Jazz Festival, (2003); Kerava Jazz Festival, Finland (2003); Era Jazzu, Poland (2003); Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany (2002); 7th Annual Vision Festival (DC/NYC) (2002); 7th East West Encounter, Bangalore, India (2002); Kala Ghoda Music and Arts Festival, Mumbai, India (2002);

Discography
Also see Recordings page on Website for information on personnel. Upcoming Releases by Kalaparush and the Light on Delmark Records (2004), and by the Sabir Mateen Quintet on Clean Feed Records (Portugal) (2004).

The Moment Kalaparush and the Light (Entropy Stereo, No. 12)
Secrets of When Sabir Mateen Quintet (Bleu Regard Records, CT 1961)
South Eastern Kalaparush and the Light (CIMP Records, No. 247)
Sound Dissolving Sound Solo percussion music (Sachimay Records, No. 9352)

Press Quotes (Also see Reviews page on Website for complete articles and interviews.)
”[…] the powerful world-music wise drumming of Ravish Momin.”
--Signal to Noise Magazine, Summer 2003

"Ravish Momin is alternately buoyant, swinging, delicate or challenging."
--Jazz Times, November 2002

"Thoroughly entertaining and "solo percussion record" don't often apply to the same thing, but they both seem to fit Momin's recent 'Sound Dissolving Sound'."
--Village Voice, March 2002

“Percussionist extraordinaire Ravish Momin, takes his North Indian background and fuses it with everything, including the kitchen sink, making his attack on sound comparable to a one-man percussion spree that makes his sounds sing."
--Village Voice, August 2001