{"id":6412,"date":"2013-10-01T14:40:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2013-10-01T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:40:11","slug":"matana-roberts-releases-coin-coins-second-instalment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=6412","title":{"rendered":"Matana Roberts releases <em>Coin Coin<\/em>&#8216;s second instalment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6413\" alt=\"Matana Roberts - Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matana-Roberts-Chapter-Two-Mississippi-Moonchile--300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matana-Roberts-Chapter-Two-Mississippi-Moonchile--300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matana-Roberts-Chapter-Two-Mississippi-Moonchile--100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Matana-Roberts-Chapter-Two-Mississippi-Moonchile-.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chicago-born, New York-based extraordinary alto saxophonist, composer, improviser and sound experimentalist <a href=\"http:\/\/matanaroberts.com\" target=\"_blank\">Matana Roberts <\/a>releases today the second instalment from her ongoing experimental project <em>Coin Coin<\/em>, following her 2011&#8217;s <em>Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile<\/em> is driven by an aesthetic practice that Matana calls &#8216;panoramic sound quilting&#8217; and conjures &#8220;some of the most nuanced, thoughtful and substantial American liberation music of the 21st century&#8221; as the press release notes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres<\/em> saw Matana collaborating with more than a dozen Montr\u00e9al musicians involved in the experimental and avant-rock scenes, including label mates Godspeed You! Black Emperor!. <em>Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile<\/em> is a more intimate affair featuring a New York jazz sextet comprising pianist Shoko Nagai, trumpeter Jason Palmer, double bass player Thomson Kneeland, drummer Tomas Fujiwara and operatic tenor singer Jeremiah Abiah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The long running <em>Coin Coin<\/em> project is far from finished, and Matana plans to release another 10 chapters. Right now, we can indulge our ears with <em>Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile<\/em>, available on vinyl, CD and digitally via <a href=\"http:\/\/cstrecords.com\" target=\"_blank\">Constellation<\/a>. You can also head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/thewire.co.uk\/audio\/tracks\/listen_matana-roberts_entire-coin-coin-chapter-two_mississippi-moonchile-album\" target=\"_blank\">The Wire<\/a> to stream the entire album, and listen to two magnificent cuts, &#8216;amma jerusalem school&#8217; and &#8216;for this is&#8217; beneath.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F103609370&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago-born, New York-based extraordinary alto saxophonist, composer, improviser and sound experimentalist Matana Roberts releases today the second instalment from her ongoing experimental project Coin Coin, following her 2011&#8217;s Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres. Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile is driven by an aesthetic practice that Matana calls &#8216;panoramic sound quilting&#8217; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[874],"class_list":["post-6412","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\/6412","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=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6416,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/6416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}