  We study the chiral vortical effect far from equilibrium in a strongly
coupled holographic field theory. Rotation is represented as a perturbation via
a gravito-magnetic field on top of a five-dimensional charged AdS Vaidya
metric. We also introduce a momentum relaxation mechanism by linear scalar
field backgrounds and study the CVE dynamics as function of the charges,
temperature and momentum relaxation. The far from equilibrium behavior shows
that the CVE builds up with a significant delay in time compared to the quasi
instantaneous equilibration of the background metric. We also pay special
attention to the effects of the gravitational contribution to the axial anomaly
in the CVE of the axial current. We develop an analytic estimate of this delay
and also compute the quasi-normal modes near equilibrium which determine the
late time ring down.
