Albums of 2013

[Heathen]

is it similar to their previous album? I didn't care for that one

edit: nvm found it, still don't care

[super nintendo chalmers]

is it similar to their previous album? I didn't care for that one

edit: nvm found it, still don't care

It's a spacious and gorgeous record, you just need to spend some time with it. On the road is ideal.

But yeah, its not for everyone. They were kinda boring live. Band sounded great though.

[Heathen]

is it similar to their previous album? I didn't care for that one

edit: nvm found it, still don't care

It's a spacious and gorgeous record, you just need to spend some time with it. On the road is ideal.

But yeah, its not for everyone. They were kinda boring live. Band sounded great though.

I love spacious, I just don't hear much of that here

anyway, what records are you guys waiting for? I feel like most of what I was excited about already came out (and mostly sucked ) but I'm still stoked about the new Bill Callahan and have high hopes for Tindersticks, Carlton Melton, medium-sized hopes for Tim Hecker, the Desertshore/Kozelek album, Richard Youngs, and in the metal department Inquisition, Ulcerate, Gigan and Watain

[Kevin Davis]

I really need to check out Bill Callahan.

[Heathen]

fucking finally
http://www.amazon.com/COIN-Chapter-Two- ... 00E5XLZTS/

I don't see how this album can live up to my expectations as the first chapter was too good, but still, excited

[kreng]

fucking finally
http://www.amazon.com/COIN-Chapter-Two- ... 00E5XLZTS/

I don't see how this album can live up to my expectations as the first chapter was too good, but still, excited

awesome

[Brett]

Nice to see the new Matana Roberts is pretty much officially confirmed. I'm surprised there hasn't been an announcement from Constellation, yet, though. I also see on Secretly Canadian's site that there's a new Land of Kush album coming out the same day as Coin Coin Chapter 2; that should be interesting, hopefully without any silly computer voice this time.

[bodysnatcher]

new Washed Out is streaming on iTunes. pretty solid so far.

[solace]

new Washed Out is streaming on iTunes. pretty solid so far.

loving that one as well... actually quite a bit more than their debut

[kreng]

Nice to see the new Matana Roberts is pretty much officially confirmed. I'm surprised there hasn't been an announcement from Constellation, yet, though. I also see on Secretly Canadian's site that there's a new Land of Kush album coming out the same day as Coin Coin Chapter 2; that should be interesting, hopefully without any silly computer voice this time.

http://cstrecords.com/cst098/

Description
COIN COIN Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile is the much-anticipated new installment of Matana Roberts' unique and forward-looking project. Guided by an aesthetic practice she has dubbed 'panoramic sound quilting' (partly in homage to the literal handicraft heritage of her patrilineal line), COIN COIN finds Roberts conjuring some of the most nuanced, thoughtful and substantial American liberation music of the 21st century.

COIN COIN has also been a profoundly generous and collaborative process for Roberts, who has been developing various chapters of the COIN COIN cycle with a wide range of musicians from diverse backgrounds over many years. The hugely acclaimed Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres was the culmination of two years of regular visits to Montréal and featured fifteen musicians assembled from that city's out-jazz, experimental and avant-rock scenes. Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile was developed for a more intimately woven New York jazz sextet and was recorded with this group in late 2012, following several years of local and international performances of the piece with this line-up.

Mississippi Moonchile takes the next leap forward in Roberts' iconoclastic and complex project of memory and recuperation, where historical and contemporary musical tropes, fragmentary spoken and sung narratives, and Matana's cascading alto saxophone are supported by prodigiously talented players on piano (Shoko Nagai), trumpet (Jason Palmer), double bass (Thomson Kneeland), drums (Tomas Fujiwara) and operatic tenor voice (Jeremiah Abiah). While demarcated by 18 titles and track IDs, the album presents an uninterrupted, incantatory swirl of through-composed music, where thematic structure and free improvisation are propelled in continual and fluid co-existence.

While Chapter One was marked by more defined set pieces, stark juxtapositions, and the epic cacophony of a sprawlingly unconventional big band, Chapter Two unfolds as a cohesive album-length piece unto itself, channeling the drama and catharsis of Gens de couleur libres into something more measured and circumscribed, playing with notions of dignity, rarefaction and restraint. The inclusion of a male operatic singer contributes significantly to the tone and tension of Mississippi Moonchile in this respect, and operates as a fascinating foil to Roberts' own voice, which alternates between splintered 'wordspeak' and deeply soulful singing. The six players are in a perpetual motion of coalescence and divergence, where melodic themes, occasional ostinato passages, and variously deployed literal voices ("There are some things I can't tell you about…") serve to rally the overriding theme of individual narratives and personal expressions as struggles with, celebrations of, and threads within collective history. The contortions of empowerment, pride, shame, suffering, eulogy, empathy, liberation and transcendence are Matana's raw material in the broadest and most specific senses; she has given this raw material another beautiful and compelling shape in the second chapter of the COIN COIN story.

Thanks for listening.

Release date: 1 October 2013
Running time: 48:32

Packaging notes
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on thick 24pt. paperboard with a printed CD dust sleeve. LP is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a heavyweight jacket with black poly-lined audiophile dust sleeve, credit insert, pull-out art poster and download code for 320 kbps MP3 copy of the album.

Tracklist
1. invocation
2. humility draws down blue
3. all nations
4. twelve sighed
5. spares of the world
6. secret coven
7. river ruby dues
8. confessor haste
9. amma jerusalem school
10. for this is
11. responsory
12. the labor of their lips
13. was the sacred day
14. lesson
15. woman red racked
16. thanks be you
17. humility draws down new
18. benediction

Credits
PERSONNEL
Matana Roberts: alto saxophone, vocals, conduction, wordspeak
Shoko Nagai: piano, vocals
Jason Palmer: trumpet, vocals
Jeremiah Abiah: operatic tenor vocals
Thomson Kneeland: double bass, vocals
Tomas Fujiwara: drums, vocals

All compositions by Matana Roberts (c) (p) 2013 caprustha/BMI except “river ruby dues”, “woman red racked” and “benediction.”: arrangements based on traditional American folk songs.

Excerpt of Fannie Lou Hammer's speech at the 1968 Democratic National Convention used in “was the sacred day”. Operatic vocals text arranged and conducted by M. Roberts, composed by Joseph D. Howard (b. 1873 – d. 1952).

Recorded by Radwan Moumneh at Systems II Studios, Brooklyn NY, 28-29 November 2012. Mixed by Radwan Moumneh at Thee Hotel2Tango, Montreal QC, January 2013. Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket, Montreal QC.

Artwork by Matana Roberts, assisted by Evan McKnight. Front cover photo by Hooks Brothers, 164 Beal Street, Memphis TN, 1939.

[invention]

so what did i miss

[psychobain]

so what did i miss

[harmless]

The Drones - I Sea Seaweed

Already the best album of 2013, unbelievable

Listened to this just now, enjoyed it. Love Why Write a Letter That You'll Never Send in particular. These guys really hold a very high standard for themselves.

Yeah that's a killer track, I also love the title track (insanely good hook) and of course Laika is super amazing.
The Drones have written better tracks I guess, but this is the best start to finish Drones album I've heard

Laika IS super amazing.

None of these guys will listen to us about this album.

I've heard one or two bits from the Drones in the past and always thought I should go back to them.

I'm now listening to I See Seaweed on Youtube and enjoying it thoroughly. I mean wow, you don't usually get this much feeling in a record these days.

[invention]

so what did i miss

you?

[psychobain]

pretty much, and:


the national
black rebel motorcycle club
daft punk
james blake
steven wilson
queens of the stone age
the black angels
nick cave and the bad seeds
disclosure

[tk]

Thee oh sees - floating coffin
Diarrhea planet - I rich beyond your wildest dreams
Ty Segall - sleeper
Natural child - CRS blues 7"
Pokey lafarge - pokey lafarge
Jacuzzi boys - jacuzzi boys (sept 10)
D. Watusi - dark party
Deerhunter - monomania
Mgmt - mgmt (sept?)
Wavves - afraid of heights
White fence - cyclops reap

At least.

[Heathen]

sample of the new Tim Hecker album 'Virgins' (out 10/14)
http://soundcloud.com/kranky/tim-hecker-virginal-ll

[WtOB?]

The Drones - I Sea Seaweed

Already the best album of 2013, unbelievable

Listened to this just now, enjoyed it. Love Why Write a Letter That You'll Never Send in particular. These guys really hold a very high standard for themselves.

Yeah that's a killer track, I also love the title track (insanely good hook) and of course Laika is super amazing.
The Drones have written better tracks I guess, but this is the best start to finish Drones album I've heard

Laika IS super amazing.

None of these guys will listen to us about this album.

I've heard one or two bits from the Drones in the past and always thought I should go back to them.

I'm now listening to I See Seaweed on Youtube and enjoying it thoroughly. I mean wow, you don't usually get this much feeling in a record these days.

fuck yeah, harmless!

[super nintendo chalmers]

[psychobain]

sample of the new Tim Hecker album 'Virgins' (out 10/14)
http://soundcloud.com/kranky/tim-hecker-virginal-ll