{"id":15522,"date":"2019-10-14T09:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T08:54:29","slug":"matana-roberts-coin-coin-chapter-four-memphis-out-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=15522","title":{"rendered":"Matana Roberts&#8217; <em>Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis<\/em> out on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15523\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15523\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matana-Roberts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matana-Roberts-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matana-Roberts-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: M.Tarantelli<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Friday will see the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matanaroberts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matana Roberts<\/a>&#8216; <em>Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis<\/em>, marking the fourth instalment in her ongoing experimental project <em>Coin Coin<\/em>. The project counts already three releases, 2011\u2019s <em>Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres<\/em>, 2013\u2019s <em>Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile<\/em> and 2015&#8217;s <em>Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roberts offered a few words about it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAs 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\u2019s 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&#8230; Thanks for listening.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the magnificent <a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=15143\">first taste<\/a> from the album, \u201cRaise Yourself Up\u201d \/ \u201cBackbone Once More\u201d \/ \u201cHow Bright They Shine\u201d, the phenomenal alto saxophonist, composer, improviser and sound experimentalist is raising the bar of excitement with a medley of three pieces, &#8220;Her Mighty Waters Run&#8221; \/ &#8220;Wild Fire Bare&#8221; \/ &#8220;Fit To Be Tied&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/633362382&amp;color=%23c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis<\/em> is out on October 18th through <a href=\"https:\/\/cstrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constellation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday will see the release of Matana Roberts&#8216; Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, marking the fourth instalment in her ongoing experimental project Coin Coin. The project counts already three releases, 2011\u2019s Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres, 2013\u2019s Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile and 2015&#8217;s Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[874],"class_list":["post-15522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-matana-roberts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15525,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions\/15525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}