Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres

A powerful and ambitious work from a leading voice of the 21st-century avant-garde. This album is the first chapter in Matana Roberts's ongoing 'Coin Coin' project, which explores African-American history through a blend of free jazz, folk melodies, spoken word, and field recordings. The music is a raw, visceral, and emotionally charged journey into the past, using the language of the avant-garde to create a profound and challenging historical narrative.