Matana Roberts - Coin Coin
October 2, 2013 1:42 PM   Subscribe

Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (full album stream) is the second instalment in Matana Roberts's projected 12 part Coin Coin series of albums, "using the language of acoustic jazz to look at ideas of race, class and gender politics in American society". Coin Coin was the nickname of a totemic figure from African-American history, Marie Thérèse Metoyer – a freed slave who founded a community along the Cane River in Louisiana in the late 18th century where people of colour enjoyed greater freedoms and opportunities than they could in most other places in the South.

Mississippi Moonchile (video) - "Matana Roberts channeling her Coin Coin project through the empty streets of Montreal at 5am, summer 2010."

Matana Robert's Tumblr.
posted by dng (2 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Really enjoying this. Thanks for posting!
posted by DaDaDaDave at 2:40 PM on October 2, 2013


This is fantastic jazz of the spiritual variety which I most favour, and since you didn't quite hit the MeFi ideal of no comments and many favourites I can freely say so.
posted by solarion at 5:16 AM on October 7, 2013 [1 favorite]


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