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Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden…

Now into its second decade, the Coin Coin project by the 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 plus the torrents and cascades of their...

Tracks of the Week 30.09.23

Billed as an 'illogical period piece' after time spent meditating on his musical identity during young adulthood, on his latest album Daniel Lopatin constructs a garden of forking paths which mines his own canon as much as the bricolage of seventies prog or early-nineties slacker rock, from the syrupy chopped and screwed eighties samples of Eccojams, which set the...

Tracks of the Week 09.09.23

In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children's music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical chants and field recordings from around the world. The earliest versions of 'This Land Is Your Land' by Woody Guthrie and 'Goodnight Irene' by Lead Belly were...