{"title":"Matana Roberts CST Releases for SFA","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-one-gens-de-couleur-libres","title":"CST079 Matana Roberts | COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatana Roberts (pronounced mah-tah-nah) is one of the leading lights of contemporary African-American experimental music, combining her widely recognized gifts as an alto saxophone player and improviser with an intensely engaged re-definition of American Jazz traditions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatana's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e project is the centerpiece of this engagement and re-definition: a multi-chapter work that combines conceptual scoring (graphic notation, 'chance' strategies), storytelling and historical narrative, performative theatre (personae, costume, multi-media), and a deeply considered channeling of personal ancestry and the 'universal' experience of Africans in America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoberts began spending significant amounts of time in Montreal during the second half of the 2000s and has been an on-and-off resident of the city since 2008. While she was familiar to Constellation as early as 2001 (through her work with Sticks And Stones and her guest performance on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYanqui U.X.O.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e album), it was through the evolution of her mesmerizing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e project that we fully fell under her spell – as did the dozen or more Montreal musicians who began working with her on the music and in performance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the first official recording of this ambitious and powerful project. We invited Matana to assemble her Montreal group for a live in-studio performance at the Hotel2Tango facility, before a small but capacity audience of about 30 friends and supporters. The band spend the entire day running things through while recording engineer Radwan Moumneh set microphones and levels. The evening performance was stunning, literally bringing audience members to tears, and went to tape beautifully. The full 90-minute performance was edited down to around 60 minutes, comprising four quarter-hour suites spread across four sides of 10\" vinyl.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSays Matana: “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a compositional sound language, that I have been developing since 2006. My initial interest in creating this work came from my childhood fascination with ghosts, spirits, spooks, and the faint traces of what they leave behind. I have a deep interest in old, antique objects of human existence, mostly because of the variety of story that can be created, factual or not, from the possibility of their being. This project is a combination of those interests as well as my delight in musical communication , ritual adornment, and the genealogical 20th century history of Africans in America. In some instances I am using information that I have gleaned from research into my own ancestral history, as inspiration and area of creative consideration. The musical root of much of this work also stems from my continued attraction\/repulsion to certain aspects of the American Jazz tradition(s) which I am deeply involved with as an alto saxophonist.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo us, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e represents some of the most honest and compelling work – musically and thematically – that we've had the privilege to be associated with. It rallies adventurous improv, experimental voice and narrative, a wide array of black folkways, and Matana's impassioned lead playing to tremendous emotional and conceptual effect.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"footerSANS\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"2x10”+MP3","offer_id":20708903977071,"sku":"CST079LPM","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2x10”+WAV","offer_id":20708904009839,"sku":"CST079LPW","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":17551031042159,"sku":"CST079CD","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":17551031074927,"sku":"CST079MP3","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":17551031107695,"sku":"CST079WAV","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/5581\/0415\/products\/IMG_4986.jpg?v=1603398490"},{"product_id":"matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-three-river-run-thee","title":"CST110 Matana Roberts | COIN COIN Chapter Three: river run thee","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003eMatana Roberts is one of the most acclaimed, socio-politically conscious and aesthetically intrepid composers, band leaders, horn players and experimental sound practitioners of the past decade. Her multi-chapter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003e work, which Constellation began documenting in 2011 with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003eGens de couleur libres\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003e, has placed her at the forefront of stylistic innovation and radicalization, while confirming the deep substance and soul that guides her compositional agenda. Following the critical accolades that the first two \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\"\u003e chapters have thus far received, the past year has been marked by further career-defining recognition for her body of iconoclastic work: Roberts was a recipient of both the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and the Doris Duke Impact Award in 2014.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRoberts has long employed the phrase “panoramic sound quilting” to describe the process surrounding her \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e work. The third chapter in her \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e series finds Roberts implementing this metaphor most explicitly, constructing a sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee\u003c\/em\u003e could arguably be considered first and foremost a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a deeply narrative work as well. Not unlike 2013’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile\u003c\/em\u003e, the new chapter unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven in surrealist fashion. Fragments of traditional song act as the main touchstones on the album, with Roberts’ singing voice riding atop waves of radiophonic texture, layered spoken word and an often dislocated, wandering horn.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorking once again with engineer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, and returning again to Montreal's Hotel2Tango studio (the location for her \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChapter One\u003c\/em\u003e recording in 2010), Roberts ran the river run thee tape back multiple times, adding new layers in real time, from start to finish (as opposed to calculated, isolated overdubs). The result is a visceral audio document that combines structure and improvisation in the fullest sense: not just in the playing and performing, but in the very marrow of the work's compositional DNA. It is also, for the first time in the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e cycle, a solo work, emerging from a lengthy solitary road trip Roberts took through the American South in early 2014, amassing historical and documentary information through interviews, site visits and field recordings.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee\u003c\/em\u003e signals yet another highly adventurous and socially engaged definition of what Jazz can mean in this day and age, and a fascinating extension of the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e cycle, where rather than surfacing and reactivating through the group dynamics of a musical ensemble, history is inhaled and exhaled through a solitary practice seeking to evoke and echo its tangled thicket of febrile strands.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThanks for listening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"180gLP+MP3","offer_id":18285124714607,"sku":"CST110LPM","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+WAV","offer_id":19285492105327,"sku":"CST110LPW","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":18285124747375,"sku":"CST110CD","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":18285124780143,"sku":"CST110MP3","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":18285124812911,"sku":"CST110WAV","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/5581\/0415\/products\/CST110cover_1500px.jpg?v=1542650816"},{"product_id":"matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-two-mississippi-moonchile","title":"CST098 Matana Roberts | COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eMatana Roberts is a Chicago-born, New York City-based saxophonist and sound experimentalist, a past member of the BRC: Black Rock Coalition and the AACM: The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, whose innovative work has forged new conceptual approaches to considering narrativity, history, and political expression within improvisatory structures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCOIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile\u003c\/em\u003e is the much-anticipated new instalment of Roberts' unique and forward-looking project. Guided by an aesthetic practice she has dubbed 'panoramic sound quilting' (partly in homage to the literal handicraft heritage of her patrilineal line), \u003cem\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e finds Roberts conjuring some of the most nuanced, thoughtful and substantial American liberation music of the 21st century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has also been a profoundly generous and collaborative process for Roberts, who has been developing various chapters of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e cycle with a wide range of musicians from diverse backgrounds over many years. The hugely acclaimed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChapter One: Gens de couleur libres\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was the culmination of two years of regular visits to Montréal and featured fifteen musicians assembled from that city's out-jazz, experimental and avant-rock scenes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was developed for a more intimately woven New York jazz sextet and was recorded with this group in late 2012, following several years of local and international performances of the piece with this line-up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMississippi Moonchile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes the next leap forward in Roberts' iconoclastic and complex project of memory and recuperation, where historical and contemporary musical tropes, fragmentary spoken and sung narratives, and Matana's cascading alto saxophone are supported by prodigiously talented players on piano (Shoko Nagai), trumpet (Jason Palmer), double bass (Thomson Kneeland), drums (Tomas Fujiwara) and operatic tenor voice (Jeremiah Abiah). While demarcated by 18 titles and track IDs, the album presents an uninterrupted, incantatory swirl of through-composed music, where thematic structure and free improvisation are propelled in continual and fluid co-existence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChapter One\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was marked by more defined set pieces, stark juxtapositions, and the epic cacophony of a sprawlingly unconventional big band, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChapter Two\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e unfolds as a cohesive album-length piece unto itself, channeling the drama and catharsis of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGens de couleur libres\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e into something more measured and circumscribed, playing with notions of dignity, rarefaction and restraint. The inclusion of a male operatic singer contributes significantly to the tone and tension of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMississippi Moonchile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in this respect, and operates as a fascinating foil to Roberts' own voice, which alternates between splintered 'wordspeak' and deeply soulful singing. The six players are in a perpetual motion of coalescence and divergence, where melodic themes, occasional ostinato passages, and variously deployed literal voices (\"There are some things I can't tell you about…\") serve to rally the overriding theme of individual narratives and personal expressions as struggles with, celebrations of, and threads within collective history. The contortions of empowerment, pride, shame, suffering, eulogy, empathy, liberation and transcendence are Matana's raw material in the broadest and most specific senses; she has given this raw material another beautiful and compelling shape in the second chapter of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCOIN COIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThanks for listening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"180gLP+MP3","offer_id":18288869900399,"sku":"CST098LPM","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+WAV","offer_id":20561329913967,"sku":"CST098LPW","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":18288869933167,"sku":"CST098CD","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":18288869965935,"sku":"CST098MP3","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":18288869998703,"sku":"CST098WAV","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/5581\/0415\/products\/CST098cover_hires.jpg?v=1542658480"},{"product_id":"matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-four-memphis","title":"CST145 Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMatana Roberts returns with the fourth chapter of her extraordinary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e albums, issued from 2011-2015, charted diverse pathways of modern\/avant 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, 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 Montréal bassist Nicolas Caloia (Ratchet Orchestra) and Montréal-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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCoin Coin Chapter Four\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a glorious and spellbinding new instalment in this projected twelve-part Gesamtkunstwerk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSays Roberts: “As an arts adventurer dealing w\/ the medium of sound and its many contradictions I am most interested in endurance, perseverance, migration, liberation, libation, improvisation and the many layers of cognitive dissonance therein as it relates to my birth country’s history. I speak memory, I sing an american survival through horn, song, sadness, a sometimes gladness. I stand on the backs of many people, from so many different walks of life and difference, that never had a chance to express themselves as expressively as I have been given the privilege. In these sonic renderings, I celebrate the me, I celebrate the we, in all that it is now, and all that is yet to come or will be...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThanks for listening.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"180gLP+MP3","offer_id":29066678108271,"sku":"CST145LPM","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+WAV","offer_id":29066678141039,"sku":"CST145LPW","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":29066678173807,"sku":"CST145CD","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":29066678206575,"sku":"CST145MP3","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":29066678239343,"sku":"CST145WAV","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/5581\/0415\/products\/CST145_cover3600px.jpg?v=1569519783"},{"product_id":"cst170-matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-five-in-the-garden","title":"CST170 Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden...","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCoin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden…\u003c\/em\u003e is the latest instalment in composer, improviser, saxophonist, and visual artist Matana Roberts’ visionary project exploring African-American history through ancestry, archive and place. Weaving together elements of jazz, avant-garde composition, folk and spoken word, Roberts tells the story of a woman in their ancestral line, who died following complications from an illegal abortion. At a time when reproductive rights are under attack, her story takes on new resonance. “I wanted to talk about this issue, but in a way where she gets some sense of liberation,” Roberts explains. By unpacking family stories and conducting extensive research in US public archives, Roberts has created a rounded portrait of a woman who is, as their lyrics put it, “electric, alive, spirited, fire and free.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach part of \u003cem\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e explores radically different musical settings, from the free jazz and post-rock eruptions of Chapter One to the solo noise collage of Chapter Three. Featuring a new ensemble steeped in jazz, improvisation, new music and avant-rock, helping to expand the project’s existing sonic palette, Chapter Five is no exception. Roberts is joined by fellow alto saxophonist Darius Jones, violinist Mazz Swift (Silkroad Ensemble, D’Angelo), bass clarinettist Stuart Bogie (TV On The Radio, Antibalas), alto clarinettist Matt Lavelle (Eye Contact, Sumari), pianist Cory Smythe (Ingrid Laubrock, Anthony Braxton), vocalist\/actor Gitanjali Jain and percussionists Ryan Sawyer (Thurston Moore, Nate Wooley) and Mike Pride (Pulverize The Sound, MDC). The late, great trumpeter jaimie branch, who was due to play on the album, receives a credit for “courage”. The album is produced by TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone, who also contributes synths. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs a composer, Roberts draws upon strategies associated with the post-war avant-garde, including John Cage and Fluxus member Benjamin Patterson’s conceptual approaches to scoring and performance. The immersive work of Maryanne Amacher, in which “sound and the body almost collaborate” is another key influence. “That is the foundation for me of the \u003cem\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e work,” they explain. “It’s not just the alto saxophone as an instrument placed in the jazz canon, it's the alto saxophone as an instrument that can be utilised to affect the body.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eListeners will be struck by Roberts’ ability to mould diverse sounds into a cohesive whole. The spoken word passages are accompanied by driving modal jazz on “how prophetic”, minimalist synth loops on “enthralled not by her curious blend” and cantering folk forms on “(a)way is not an option”. These are interspersed with instrumental pieces that range from avant-garde abstraction and squalling free jazz, to solo saxophone reflections and Mississippi fife and drums blues. There’s a further evocation of American roots music in the powerful group vocal arrangement of “but I never heard a sound so long”, adapted by Roberts from the plantation lullaby “All The Pretty Horses.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile this new chapter of \u003cem\u003eCoin Coin\u003c\/em\u003e focusses on a female-identified protagonist, others haven’t (Chapter Three being from the perspective of a male ancestor) and Roberts intends for future chapters to continue to cover the breadth of the gender spectrum, as well as their Native American heritage. “I'm proud that people say that the Coin Coin work speaks of a woman's story. But I want to make sure that it retains its inclusivity, because what we look like is not always what you see.” This reflects Roberts’ own experiences as a queer person of colour. For the remaining chapters of Coin Coin, Roberts will continue exploring identity and ancestry. “Expect it to keep heading towards a liberation of the human spirit.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"2x10”+MP3","offer_id":40171998511238,"sku":"CST170LPM","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2x10”+WAV","offer_id":40171998544006,"sku":"CST170LPW","price":33.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":40171998576774,"sku":"CST170CD","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":40171998609542,"sku":"CST170MP3","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":40171998642310,"sku":"CST170WAV","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0071\/5581\/0415\/files\/CST170_Cover_HI-RES.jpg?v=1685470524"}],"url":"https:\/\/constellation-records.myshopify.com\/fr\/collections\/matana-roberts-releases-on-cst.oembed","provider":"Constellation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}