Photo: Geoff Albores

Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… is the fifth instalment in Matana Roberts‘ project Coin Coin, a remarkable and visionary twelve-part work exploring African-American history, which stretches back to 2011. When the album news emerged last June, the extraordinary alto saxophonist, composer, improviser and sound experimentalist gave us a phenomenal taster of it with the opening 10 minutes of the album featuring the three-song suite “we said” / “different rings” / “unbenkownst”.  With just over three weeks to go until Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… is released, Roberts are sharing two new tracks, ‘shake my bones’ and ‘a(way) is not an option’. Give them a listen now.

Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden… is out on September 29th through Constellation Records