July 13, 2020  For Immediate Release  

Turning Jewels Into Water Shares New Single “ Swirl In The Waters”  From Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars 

Out 8/21 On FPE Records  

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 Turning Jewels Into Water – the duo of Haitian-born drummer, DJ, educator and electronic music artist Val Jeanty and Indian-born drummer, producer and educator Ravish Momin –  will release their new album, Our Reflection Adorned by Newly Formed Stars, on August 21st via FPE Records . Today, they share “ Swirl In The Waters,” a dark and pulsing epic. Following the lead single/title track, album opener “Swirl In The Waters” immediately sets a sacred tone, preparing listeners for a journey into the unknown. The track is a collaboration with Iranian singer Kamyar Arsani , who is “as comfortable in DC’s Punk scene as he is with traditional Persian music,” says Ravish. “The track evokes a ‘digital folk music’ from nowhere, as the inspirations span a range from Shanghai’s 33EMYBW to Cairo’s 3Phaz to Durban’s DJ Lag. ”

Whirl into the horizon, above waters

There’s no time left.

Listen to the oceans,

As you look at the face of waters,

looking into oblivion.

Water listens in depth.

In this flow of time,

We become nothing.

We all echo.

On the waters, vision of moon.

In our minds, image of night.

Whirl into waters,

There’s no time left.

*translated from Farsi

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 Our Reflection Adorned By Newly Formed Stars follows their 2019 album Map of Absences . For Our Reflection Momin and Jeanty take their dynamic musical partnership to even greater heights and more intense depths. Imbued with the spirit of collaboration and influenced by cutting-edge sounds like South African Gqom, Our Reflection reaches across oceans and continents, connecting the ancient with the modern.   Speaking to the collaborative approach they took to making Our Reflection, Momin explains that he and Jeanty lead an ensemble of musicians from around the world, with the end product being a challenge to the ethnic fetishizing that far-too commonly comes along with global/world music. In March 2020, Momin had already reached out to other artists for remote contributions, including Iranian singer/daf player Kamyar Arsani (based in Washington, DC) and friend Mpho Molikeng , a master musician of South African indigenous instruments (based in Lesotho). Jeanty had already set up a base in Boston (for her newly appointed position as a professor at Berklee College of Music) and was also planning on collaborating remotely.   With Our Reflection Adorned By Newly Formed Stars , Turning Jewels Into Water uses forward-thinking electronic music and experimentation to tap into a continuum of folk music that is as old as time itself. Also, containing remixes from Laughing Ears, and EMB, the music here is Indian, African, Afro-Caribbean and global all at once. By combining their unique cultural experiences Jeanty and Momin are bold enough to allow all of the tensions and commonalities to play freely and resolve themselves in the music.  

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