We're more than delighted to announce this very special show today, serious dream come true territories!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
MATANA
ROBERTS
‘Coin Coin Chapter Three’
Tuesday 6 October
OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8
1LL
7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/323005
Matana Roberts is an internationally
renowned composer, band leader, saxophonist, sound experimentalist and
mixed-media practitioner. Roberts works in many contexts and mediums, including
improvisation, dance, poetry, and theater. She made two records as a core
member of the Sticks And Stones quartet in the early 2000s and has gone on to
release a diverse body of solo and ensemble work under her own name on
Constellation and Central Control over the past decade. She is perhaps best
known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, a multi-chapter work of “panoramic
sound quilting” that aims to expose the mystical roots and channel the
intuitive spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression while
maintaining a deep and substantive engagement with narrativity, history,
community and political expression within improvisatory musical structures.
Constellation began documenting the Coin Coin project in 2011 and has released
the first three of a projected twelve album-length chapters to date.
The third chapter of Coin Coin, entitled ‘river
run thee’ and released on Constellation last year, finds Roberts constructing a
sound art tapestry from field recordings, loop and effects pedals, and spoken
word recitations, alongside her saxophone and singing voices. ‘Coin Coin
Chapter Three: river run thee’ could arguably be considered first and foremost
a vocal work, and notwithstanding its experimental and esoteric structure, a
deeply narrative work as well. Not unlike 2013’s ‘Coin Coin Chapter Two:
Mississippi Moonchile’ the new chapter unfolds as an uninterrupted album-length
flow, this time in what Roberts calls “a fever dream” of sonic material, woven
in surrealist fashion. For this rare performance Roberts will present ‘Coin
Coin Chapter Three’ as a solo performance comprising voice, saxophone, audio
samples and large scale projections.
“At
my artistic core, I am firmly dedicated to creating a unique and very personal
experiential body of sound work that speaks to, and reminds people of all walks
of life to reach, stand up, give voice, regardless of difference, created from
mere labels of intellectual classification. In my ideal world the idea of
‘difference’, is an illusion designed only for the purpose of modern economic
division and elitist intellectual hierarchy. Through my life’s work, I stand
creatively in defiance.”
MATANA
ROBERTS
Matana Roberts from Sax Pax on Vimeo.
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