Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee Album

Tracklist

1	Always Say Your Name	1:53
2	The Good Book Says	2:39
3	Dreamer Of Dreams	4:33
4	As Years Roll By	4:05
5	A Single Man O'War	2:05
6	Nema, Nema, Nema	4:23
7	This Land Is Yours	3:44
8	With Me Seek	0:57
9	Clothed To The Land, Worn By The Sea	3:24
10	All Is Written	10:06
11	J.P.	2:23
12	Come Away	5:26

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CST110-1	Matana Roberts	Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee ‎(LP, Album)	Constellation	CST110-1	Canada	2015

Credits

• Alto Saxophone, Synthesizer [Korg Monotron, Korg Monotron Delay, Korg Monotron Duo Analogue], Voice [Wordspeak], Upright Piano [Early 1900s Archambault Upright Piano] – Matana Roberts
• Recorded By, Mixed By – Radwan Ghazi Moumneh

Notes

Recorded and mixed at Hotel2Tango, Montreal QC, June 3-5, 2014.
Sound samples from #southernsojourn2014: a scaled-down field recording weave of Roberts' 25-day ramble in wintered Mississippi/Tennessee/Louisiana USA and a touch of a very chaotic New York City 21st century.

Also samples from:
Malcom X, "Confronting White Oppression", Feb 14 1965, Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI.
Gertrude, last name unknown, homeless and sweet, downtown Jackson, MS.

Text from:
Captain G.L. Sullivan, "Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters", 1873.

Public domain songs quoted throughout:
"Star Spangled Banner" - Francis Scott Key
"Beautiful Dreamer" - Stephen Foster
"The Pledge of Allegiance" - Mississippi State Senate
"My Country Tis of Thee" - Samuel Francis Smith
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" - James Weldon Johnson
"All the Pretty Horses" - unknown origin

CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve.
No track durations on release.

Barcodes

• Barcode: 6 66561 01102 4
• Matrix / Runout: WWW.DUPLICATION.CA CST110 MADE IN CANADA AMT60487R 278-C2-17103-53452A
• Mould SID Code: IFPI ZP03

Companies

• Recorded At – Hotel2Tango
• Mixed At – Hotel2Tango
• Manufactured By – www.duplication.ca

Short intro

Matana Roberts' Coin Coin series takes its name from Marie Thérèse Coincoin, a freed slave who created a community for Creole people in southern Louisiana. Roberts' parents also gave it to her as a nickname. In this title, one identity is referenced as another speaks, tied indelibly because they are informed by the two constant, ever governing if ever changing notions in American history, no matter how we try to deny them: race and class. River Run Thee stands in stark contrast to 2011's Gens de Couleur Libre which featured a jazz orchestra and 2013's Mississippi Moonch. Matana Roberts is one of the most acclaimed, socio-politically conscious and aesthetically intrepid avant-jazz practitioners of the 21st century. The critical accolades for her multi-chapter Coin Coin work place her at the vanguard of stylistic innovation and radicalization, while confirming the deep substance and soul that guides her compositional agenda. These 46 minutes are magnetic and inescapable. By the time the 46 minutes of COIN COIN Chapter Three: river run thee end in a wash of synthesizer, one verdict resounds long beyond the haze: It is no longer adequate to call the New York saxophonist Matana Roberts a mere musician. Matana Roberts. Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee. SC Distribution от лица компании Constellation BMI - Broadcast Music Inc. и другие авторские общества 1. More By Matana Roberts. Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile. Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres. Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis. Live in London. Tiny Mix Tapes. COIN COIN Chapter Three: river run thee is infinite and indispensable in its cultural worth and true-ly timeless and comprehensive in its scope. A masterwork of human history, still in progress. Full Review. Coin Coin Chapter Three successfully operates on so many intellectual and conceptual levels, but lacks visceral impact inducing the listener into a call for action, but only from the distant, second-hand viewpoint of scattered diaspora. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee 2015. To favorites 0 Download album. Listen album. Jazz Experimental. Songs in album Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee 2015. Matana Roberts - All Is Written. Matana Roberts - The Good Book Says. Matana Roberts - Clothed To The Land, Worn By The Sea. Matana Roberts - Dreamer Of Dreams. Matana Roberts - Always Say Your Name. Released February 3, 2015. Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee Tracklist. All Is Written Lyrics. Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee Q&A. More Matana Roberts albums. Show all albums by Matana Roberts. Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee. The latest chapter in Matana Roberts Coin Coin sequence is a breath taking achievement says Louder Than Wars Paul Margree. In River Run Thee theres none of the freewheeling large ensemble work of 2011s Gens de couleur libres, the first record whose turbulent outpourings free jazz blasts of fury crossed with titanic post-rock surges announced itself with such fierce joy and drama. Nor are there the deep spiritual jazz grooves and quick-fire poetry of its sequel, Mississippi Moonchile, a smaller scale but no less affecting work, created with a New York-based sextet, its sonic architecture defined by the stunning operatic vocal interventions of tenor Jeremiah Abiah