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Now well into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the saxophonist and mixed-media artist Matana Roberts continues to explore African-American history through a recuperative focus on memory and ancestry, summoning a heteroglossia of voices through group recitations, guttural catharsis and plainspoken word, graphic and other aleatoric forms of notation, samples, loops and effects pedals and the torrents...

The city of Johnstown, around 57 miles east of Pittsburgh in southwestern Pennsylvania, since being settled in 1770 has borne three historic floods. The Great Flood of 1889 after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam killed 2,209 people, whereupon the relief efforts of a team of volunteers led by Clara Barton helped to establish the American Red...

The violinist Laura Cannell and cellist Kate Ellis wind down These Feral Lands by stepping inside the Glasgow University Chapel, whose choir recite a thoroughly reworked version of the sixteenth-century Coventry Carol while the rain beats against the stained glass windows and the wooden door atop the tower sways in the blustering wind. Over the course of the past...