Bleep

Across the first three ‘chapters’ of her sprawling Coin Coin series, reedswoman and bandleader Matana Roberts has singled herself out as an unstoppable force of elemental fury, and a visionary figure in contemporary American art, let alone jazz. Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis sees Roberts stitch another patch into her panoramic sound quilting, delving uncompromisingly deep into the horror of the US slave trade, keenly tracing its reverberations well into the present day.