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For the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated debut album Fanm d'Ayiti, a celebration of the unheralded female singers of Haiti which was recited and performed in collaboration with Spektral Quartet, the Haitian American vocalist and flautist Nathalie Joachim sought to fete those ties that bind, from romantic trysts and familial bonds to the semantic shifts and twisted etymologies of Haitian...

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...