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Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts talks about their latest album, and how they 'listen' to history, through sonic memory, somatic healing and paying attention to the cycles of the past.

Corey Mwamba presents the best in new improvised music. Matana Roberts joins the programme to share how they listen to history as a personal and artistic practice: 鈥淚f people really listened, some of the things that we are currently experiencing wouldn't be happening. You can look at the rhythm of a moment in history and understand the layers that push things to a certain point. That鈥檚 how I listen to history."

Their newest release is Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden鈥., an immersive world of poetic witnessing, interwoven folk songs, blues, and improvisation. It鈥檚 the latest addition of their Coin Coin project - a long song of America, refracted through prisms of familial stories, archival research and collective memories stored in sound. This chapter explores the story of a woman in their ancestral line who died following complications from an illegal abortion, through which they ask broader questions around reproductive justice and bodily autonomy today: 鈥淚鈥檓 trying to be in the chain link of artists who are trying to create work that is a testament to a lineage and a culture."

Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Sun 19 Nov 2023 00:00

Music Played

  • Honestly Same

    Frostily Same

    • Hot Plate Only.
    • Moon Glyph.
  • Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe/Lichens

    Meet Sam

    • Original Music Form The Series 鈥淭elemarketers鈥.
    • Invada Records.
  • Experimetal (Omar Grandoso & Sam Nacht)

    Focus (128-129 + 138-139)

    • Focus (128鈥-鈥129 + 138鈥-鈥139).
    • Pakapi Records.
  • Fergus Quill

    Pixieland

    • 隆Up Yours! Fergus Quill Plays Xero Slingsby.
  • Greg Kelley

    Threnody to the Limits of Musical Expression

    • Threnody to the Limits of Musical Expression.
  • Oliver Lake, Mathias Landaeus & Kresten Osgood

    Spirit

    • Spirit.
    • 厂贵础虉搁.
  • Matana Roberts

    for they do not know

    • Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden鈥.鈥.鈥..
    • Constellation.
  • Matana Roberts

    i have long been fascinated

    • Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden鈥.鈥.鈥..
    • Constellation.
  • Matana Roberts

    we said

    • Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden鈥.鈥.鈥..
    • Constellation.
  • Matana Roberts

    others each

    • Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden鈥.鈥.鈥..
    • Constellation.
  • Matana Roberts

    ...ain't i. ...your mystery is our history

    • Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden鈥.鈥.鈥..
    • Constellation.
  • Katherine Dunham Presents The Singing Gods

    Ibo

    • Drum Rhythms Of Haiti Cuba Brazil.
    • Audio Fidelity.
  • Raven Chacon

    Overheard Song

    • Overheard Songs.
    • Innova Recordings.
  • 脡liane Radigue

    Jetsun Mila Pt 1

    • Jetsun Mila.
    • Lovely Music.
  • Kraabel/Reed/Thompson

    first dance

    • still dancing.
    • Empty Birdcage Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Nov 2023 00:00