Just over a year ago, when Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile came out, Matana Roberts said the project was far from finished and promised to release another 10 chapters. Well, Chapter Three arrives in 2015.
The incredible alto saxophonist, composer, improviser and sound experimentalist had collaborated with several musicians in both of the previous instalments: on Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres Matana collaborated with more than a dozen Montréal musicians part of experimental and avant-rock scenes, and Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile featured a New York jazz sextet. The upcoming Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee, is a solo affair, as the press release explains, “building a hallucinatory and hypnotic soundworld from layered streams of sung and spoken vocals, pure and processed saxophone, drones, noise, sampler/fx pedals and field recordings.”. This solo effort came to life following a lengthy solitary road trip that Matana took through the American South earlier this year, to collect historical and documentary information through interviews, site visits and field recordings.
In celebration of the new album, Matana has moved to a small houseboat in Brooklyn where she’s logging “observations and reflections that further develop themes presented on the record” in a blog.
As with the previous instalments, Matana has again recruited Jerusalem In My Heart’s Radwan Ghazi Moumneh to record the album.
Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee is set to be released on February 3rd via Constellation. Luckily, we can already wrap our ears around an excerpt from the album’s staggering cut ‘always say your name / nema, nema, nema’.