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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Alternating Currents Live Archive Alternating Currents Live: Making Sounds Musical		Alternating Currents Live Sunday, March 18, 2007, 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $8 general, $7 students and seniors, $6 members Tarana, led by percussionist/composer Ravish Momin, utilizes Indian and East-Asian rhythms (including Japanese, Afghani, & Indonesian) in compositions that seamlessly blend written material with spontaneous group interaction. They have a critically acclaimed debut CD entitled “Climbing the Banyan Tree” in 2004, on the Portugal-based CleanFeed Record Label. The ensemble was recently awarded a US National Endowment for the Arts Grant to perform at the Mediawave Festival in Hungary (2006). They have also performed at New York City’s Rubin Museum of Asian Art on multiple occasions, the Jazzin’ Tondela (Portugal, 2005), the prestigious Smithsonian Institution’s Freer Gallery (Washington, DC, 2005), and the New Music Circle (St. Louis, MO, 2005), the Taipei Arts Festival (Taiwan, 2004), the 9th Annual Asian American Jazz Festival (Chicago, IL, 2004)amongst other performances. Tarana features: Sam Bardfeld (violin) is also a member of the Jazz Passengers and has worked with jazz and avant-garde legends John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson and James Spaulding; pop icons John Cale, Debbie Harry and Nancy Sinatra and Latin stars Johnny Pacheco and Dave Valentin among others. He has recently toured and recorded as a featured member of Bruce Springsteen’s “Seeger Sessions Band.” Brandon Terzic (oud) is a founding member of avant-world music group ‘Howling Makams’. He has performed and/or recorded with world- renowned luminaries such as Hernan Romero, Minu Cinelu (percussionist with Miles Davis), David Fiuczinski, Al Mcdowell, and Shane Shanihan (from Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble) to name a few. Ravish Momin has studied drumset with Andrew Cyrille and Bob Moses and North Indian percussion with Misha Masud, and Jim Dispirito a disciple of Ustad Zakir Hussain. He has worked with a wide-range of musicians, including vocalist Marie Afonso (ex-Zap Mama), percussionist Susie Ibarra, bassists Wilber Morris and William Parker, violinists Jason Kao Hwang and Billy Bang, guitarists Brad Shepik and Ty Braxton, saxophonists Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre (AACM), Peter Epstein and Sabir Mateen, trumpeters Roy Campbell and Raphe Malik, pianist Ursel Schlicht's ExTempore Project, and experimental hip-hoppers IsWhat?! (featuring MC Napolean). “It is fair to say that 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.” -AllAboutJazz.com http://www.myspace.com/triotarana This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series, broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.

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