The fourth installment of Matana Roberts' COIN COIN series is instantly one of the decade's most compelling jazz projects.
Jazztracks For The Blind.
Based in New York, Matana Roberts is an artist, composer, saxophonist, and sound experimenter. Her work seeks to expose, within American creative expression, the mystical roots and traditions of intuitive elevation of the mind. Performing a variety of roles - storyteller, musician, ethnographer, activist - Roberts forges a new approach to narrativity, history and political expression, all reinterpreted through improvisational structures.
Coin-Coin comes out of the ... read more
Great narrative and soundscapes, great performance from the storyteller too, I don't know if this was a true story but i wouldn't doubt it since i could hear her voice crack with emotion at points, i have to check out the other coin albums too now
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz
Um...this is kinda annoying. Nah scratch that, this is kinda very annoying. This album is a mix of seemingly random moments of jazz composition which SOUNDS like it could be cool,but instead comes across as awkward and irritating. Hardly melodies and more just a random collection of stings and noises. I get that it's supposed to sound uneasy and strange but it comes across more like a child playing with random instruments. Expecially "Shoes of Gold" which ... read more
If Frank Zappa and Miles Davis had an acid trip together
I could see how people would dislike this, it's disjointed, chaotic and messy, but I think that it's also so unique that it makes for such a wild experience. It's like if you took the experimentation from a Zappa project and matched it with 'Bitches Brew', the result is quite haunting but such a spectacle to witness. It takes talent to make such chaos fun and enjoyable, and what it displayed here is nothing short of amazing.
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Coin Coin 4: I wanted to revisit this before listening to Coin Coin 5, and it’s grown on me so much more. There’s very little music I dislike, but there’s also very little that I find truly emotionally moving. This is 110% the latter. This album made me cry when I first heard it, and it made me cry today. I can’t stress enough how amazing this is.
Highlights: Jewels of the Sky, As Far as the Eye Can See, Trail of the Smiling Sphinx, Shoes of Gold, Wild Fire Bare, Fit to ... read more
1 | Jewels of the Sky: Inscription 1:48 | 94 |
2 | As Far as Eyes Can See 4:03 | 85 |
3 | Trail of the Smiling Sphinx 9:43 | 94 |
4 | Piddling 2:29 | 77 |
5 | Shoes of Gold 3:07 | 82 |
6 | Wild Fire Bare 5:41 | 84 |
7 | Fit to Be Tied 2:41 | 90 |
8 | Her Mighty Waters Run 4:57 | 92 |
9 | All Things Beautiful 2:30 | 82 |
10 | In the Fold 3:16 | 89 |
11 | Raise Yourself Up 2:44 | 90 |
12 | Backbone Once More 0:51 | 79 |
13 | How Bright They Shine 2:50 | 82 |
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