Turning Jewels Into Water

Turning Jewels Into Water is an experimental duo consisting of Val Jeanty and Ravish Momin, two electronic musicians and percussionists based in New York. Their improvisation-based work blends broken rhythms and turntable scratching with fluid, abstract textures. Releases such as 2019's Map of Absences draw from the traditions of the artists' respective backgrounds (Jeanty is Haitian and Momin was born in India) while also keeping an ear to global dance music sounds such as kuduro and footwork. The project began in 2017, when Jeanty participated in a jam session at Pioneer W...