Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Matana Roberts
Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Stereogum, Best Jazz Albums of 2019
Roberts has kept her conceptual focus and creative engine finely tuned to deliver work that has structural invention and a deep poignancy that should move anybody interested in real lives.
Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis
Matana Roberts
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Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Stereogum, Best Jazz Albums of 2019
Roberts has kept her conceptual focus and creative engine finely tuned to deliver work that has structural invention and a deep poignancy that should move anybody interested in real lives.
About
Matana Roberts returns with the much-anticipated fourth installment of her hugely innovative, profoundly iconoclastic and rightly acclaimed, 'Coin Coin' project. Roberts deftly weaves a sonic tapestry of African-American ethnography and history with strands of jazz, blues, free improv, afro-futurism, traditionals, spoken word and avant-garde composition - always guided by her powerfully personal/universal narratives and wholehearted, singular artistic spirit.
Contents and tracklist
Jewels of the Sky: Inscription 1.48
As Far As the Eye Can See 4.03
Trail of the Smiling Sphinx 9.43
Piddling 2.29
Shoes of Gold 3.07
Wild Fire Bare 5.41
Fit to Be Tied 2.41
Her Mighty Waters Run 4.57
All Things Beautiful 2.30
In the Fold 3.16
Raise Yourself Up 2.44
Backbone Once More 0.51
How Bright They Shine 2.50
Awards and reviews
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JazzwiseEditor's ChoiceOctober 2019
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StereogumBest Jazz Albums of 2019
October 2019
Roberts has kept her conceptual focus and creative engine finely tuned to deliver work that has structural invention and a deep poignancy that should move anybody interested in real lives.
December 2019
The latest installment in a 12-part project that explores the reedist’s personal history and cultural lineage through an ethnographic lens. She methodically weaves childhood memories with reimagined jazz standards, African-American spirituals, avant-garde composition and instrumentation that evokes the American South.
