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Artist: Matana Roberts
Title: Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee
Format: 12"
Label: Constellation
Cat No: CST110-1
Released: Jan 2015
Country:
Genres: Avant-garde JazzField RecordingContemporarySpoken Word
Status Have
Added To List 18th February 2015
Disc 1 | 12"
No Notes 
A Matrix:
BE71191-01 A1 MK  
B Matrix:
BE71191-01 B1 MK VI  

Additional Information

Comments Recorded and mixed June 3-5, 2014.
Sound samples from #southernsojourn2014: a scaled-down field recording weave of Roberts' 25-day ramble in wintered Mississippi/Tennessee/Louisiana USA and a touch of a very chaotic New York City 21st century.

Also samples from:
Malcom X, "Confronting White Oppression", Feb 14 1965, Ford Auditorium, Detroit, MI.
Gertrude, last name unknown, homeless and sweet, downtown Jackson, MS.

Text from:
Captain G.L. Sullivan, "Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters", 1873.

Public domain songs quoted throughout:
"Star Spangled Banner" - Francis Scott Key
"Beautiful Dreamer" - Stephen Foster
"The Pledge of Allegiance" - Mississippi State Senate
"My Country Tis of Thee" - Samuel Francis Smith
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" - James Weldon Johnson
"All the Pretty Horses" - unknown origin

Comes on 180g vinyl and includes art print poster and a digital download code.
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