Tarana

” Su música crea puentes entre el jazz y la electrónica, caminos suaves y fáciles de transitar que te llevan flotando entre ambos terrenos. Se trata de sonidos que crean mundos envolventes, con melodías que explotan por todos lados como fuegos artificiales.” -THUMP Tarana Is an exciting and ground-breaking Trombone/synth (Rick Parker) & Drums/electronics (Ravish Momin) DUO that blurs the boundaries between the electronic and the acoustic, while blending a vast array of influences, ranging from Jazz to Juke to Disco to Bollywood. Using digital and analog electronics, they layer live loops, melodies, textures and sounds on top of their tight-knit acoustic instruments to create a symphonic sound that also explores deep-grooving rhythms from across the world. Ravish Momin cut his jazz teeth performing/recording with members of the US based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). They had released a critically acclaimed debut entitled “Climbing the Banyan Tree” in 2004, on the Portugal-based CleanFeed Record Label. Of their debut CD, AllAboutJazz.com had said: “It is fair to say that Trio Tarana is without precedent in the world of improvised music. A true synthesis of North African, South and East Asian motifs with classical organization and the immediacy of free improvisation has probably not existed prior to “Climbing the Banyan Tree.” Their follow-up CD, “Miren” (2007) was also very well-received. On the world stage, most notably, they have performed at The Festival Internacional de Jazz, (Mexico City, MX 2013), The VDU Jazz Connections Festival (Kaunas, Lithuania, 2012), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Urbana, IL, 2011), The San Servolo Jazz Meeting (Venice, Italy, 2010), The Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada, 2010), LolaFest (Canada, 2010), Aguascalientes Music Festival (Mexico, 2010), The Calgary Jazz Festival (Canada, 2009), Jazz Lent (Maribor, Slovenia, 2009), Cultural Festival Zacatecas (Mexico 2009), Jazz Ao Centro Festival (Coimbra, Portugal, 2008), Yardbird Suite Jazz Club (Edmonton, Canada, 2008, 2007), The Mediawave Festival (Hungary, 2006), The Jazzin’ Tondela (Portugal, 2005), The Taipei Arts Festival (Taiwan, 2004), and have toured Europe several times. They have also toured in China, Mexico, Lebanon and the UK. In the US, they've performed at the prestigious Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery (Washington, DC), New York City’s Rubin Museum of Art on multiple occasions, The Warhol Museum, The Detroit Institute of Art, the New Music Circle (St. Louis, MO), 9th Annual Asian American Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL, 2004), amongst other venues. They have also been recently featured in TimeOUT Magazines (London, Lisbon, HongKong and Chicago), Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Saint Louis Magazine, The Edmonton Journal, ‘Village Voice’ (New York), ‘Jazz.pt’ (Portugal) and in ‘JazzImprov’ (France), Redstar Magazine (China) amongst various other domestic and international publications. Ravish Momin (composition, percussion, voice, laptop) is the leader of the ensemble. Most recently he has performed with pop-star Shakira on televised appearances on "The View" (ABC), "Rockefeller Tree Lighting" (NBC)and the "Rachel Ray Show" (ABC). He has toured and recorded with saxophonists Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre (AACM) (Tel Aviv Jazz Festival, Israel, EraJazzu Festival, Poland, Sons D'Hiver Festival, Paris, France, Kerava Jazz Festival, Finland, Guelph Jazz Festival, Canada, Chicago Jazz Festival, amongst others), Sabir Mateen, and Peter Epstein, guitarist Brad Shepik, bassists Wilber Morris and William Parker, Violinists Billy Bang, Jason Kao Hwang, percussionists Susie Ibarra, Kenny Wolleson & Jim Black, trumpeters Roy Campbell and Raphe Malik, and Pianist Ursel Schlicht's Ex Tempore. He has also worked with Hip-Hop artist Alap Momin (from Dalek), and also tours with the up-and-coming rock band Fulton Lights, and recorded for the CleanFeed, Delmark, NuBop, CIMP, Entropy Stereo, & BlueRegard Record Labels. Rick Parker (Trombonist, Composer) "Sleek and Modernistic" (David Adler, Philly Weekly) aptly describes the music of trombonist/composer Rick Parker. He has released 4 CD's as a leader/co-leader including 2 with his quintet, the Rick Parker Collective on Fresh Sound New Talent Records and WJF Records; His breakthrough CD “Finding Space,” was named by All About Jazz editor Michael Ricci as a "Top Pick CD for 2006." An adventurous composer and bandleader, Parker is a 2 time winner of the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award. The Rick Parker Collective has performed at venues including the Williamsburg Jazz Festival, Somers Point Jazz Festival, 55 Bar and Blues Alley. Parker also co-lead a quartet, 4Limones, which featured Tim Berne on saxophone and toured Mexico and the northeast USA extensively Synth/Drums duo blending influences from Jazz to Juke to Disco to Bollywood & blurring lines between the electronic & acoustic.