Name: Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Brand: Matana Roberts

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CST145LP

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Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl with Inserts.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-10-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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0666561014513

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

CST145CD

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Mini Gatefold.

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0666561014520

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Matana Roberts

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Constellation

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Matana Roberts is a reeds player who was born in Chicago, IL, USA in 1975. She is currently based in New York, NY, USA.
With her unique style and captivating performances, Matana has established herself as a prominent figure in the music industry. Her talent and passion for music have led her to collaborate with renowned artists from various genres.
Through her innovative compositions and powerful storytelling abilities, Matana continues to push boundaries and redefine the possibilities of music. Her work resonates with audiences worldwide, making her an influential force in contemporary music.

For fans of Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane, Irreversible Entanglements, Moor Mother, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra. Matana Roberts returns with the fourth chapter of her extraordinary Coin Coin series - a project that has deservedly garnered the highest praise and widespread critical acclaim for its fierce aesthetic originality and unflinching narrative power. The first three Coin Coin albums, issued from 2011-2015, charted diverse pathways of avant modern composition - Roberts calls it "panoramic sound quilting" - and ranged sequentially from large band to sextet to solo, unified by Roberts' archival and often deeply personal research into legacies of the American slave trade and ancestries of American identity / experience. 

Roberts also emphasizes non-male subjects and thematises these other-gendered stories with a range of vocal and verbal techniques: singspeak, submerged glossolalic recitation, guttural cathartic howl, operatic voice, gentle lullaby, group chant, and the recuperation of various American folk traditionals and spirituals, whether surfacing in fragmentary fashion or as unabridged set-pieces. The root of this vocality comes from her dedication to the legacy of her main chosen instrument, the alto saxophone. On Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, Roberts convened a new band, with New Yorkers Hannah Marcus (guitars, fiddle, accordion) and percussionist Ryan Sawyer (Thurston Moore, Nate Wooley, Cass McCombs) joined by Montreal bassist Nicolas Caloia (Ratchet Orchestra) and Montreal-Cairo composer / improviser Sam Shalabi (Land Of Kush, Dwarfs Of East Agouza) on guitar and oud, along with prolific trombonist Steve Swell and vibraphonist Ryan White as special guests. Memphis unspools as a continuous work of 21st century liberation music, oscillating between meditative incantatory explorations, raucous melodic themes, and unbridled free-improv suites, quoting archly and ecstatically from various folk traditions along the way. Led by Roberts' conduction and unique graphic score practice, her consummate saxophone and clarinet playing, and punctuated by her singing and speaking various texts generated from her own historical research and diaristic writings, Coin Coin Chapter Four is a glorious and spellbinding new installment in this projected twelve-part Gesamtkunstwerk.

Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis

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