 | Matana Roberts COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
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| 4.5 superb | bab808 | August 8th 11 |
coin coin is definitely tough to swallow, but each song on here is a very emotional experience with genuinely bone-chilling screams and contrastingly detached spoken word parts. these parts pair an unnerving aloofness in delivery with lyrics that contain attrocities of rape, death, and abuse through the eyes of a slave woman. the musicianship is also quite impeccable, with great sax playing (an obvious must) and moody piano melodies sparsed throughout. though the ideas presented lyrically are quite dense, the song structures aren't too out of the ordinary for the genre. this album is gripping in every sense and though i doubt i'll be able to listen to it again for at least a few more weeks, i definitely suggest that anyone with at least a moderate interest in free-jazz and experimental music should check this out.
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| 0.0 | Meatplow | July 22nd 11 |
Somewhat pretentious and irritating, the cliche vocal performer alternating between spoken word and screaming over avant-garde/free jazz thing is kind of milked for all it's worth here. Depends if you like this sort of jazz or not, personally it's not my cup of tea though I cannot deny how pretty is at times.
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| 3.9 excellent | Erwann S. STAFF | September 24th 20 |
Fucking hell. When these vocals come in - wait no scratch that. When these heart-wrenching screams howl at you, or when the a capella tales are told, this record is absolutely magical. The vocal's deep spirituality is what gives the album its very own ipseity. Musically, the avant-garde jazz bits are avant-garde only because they play on the same tropes avant-garde jazz is known for: rhythmic and dissonant improv. Truth is, once something is accomplished, all its replications will never be avant-garde. It's not apres-garde though. Maybe it's garde. Notwithstanding these silly considerations, this sounds like jazz done by Godspeed, drony and cinematic, sometimes too grandiloquent for its own good, but always impacting. One jab you can land at the record's jugular also is its tendency to wait a tad too long to reveal its secrets. Coin Coin Chapter One is not without faults, but it desperately embraces said faults to be unmistakably itself.
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| 4.0 excellent | Hawks | December 25th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | June 20th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Tb1114 | November 2nd 18 |
| 4.5 superb | Maniac! | November 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | May 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | November 19th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | Tom Read CONTRIBUTOR | November 2nd 16 |
| 3.5 great | Sacul | September 3rd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matski | February 21st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | JS19 | February 11th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | lou1000 | January 4th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | p4p | December 26th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Vader | October 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lotus | July 2nd 14 |
| 4.5 superb | robin | January 1st 14 |
| 4.5 superb | opie | December 10th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | jimgorn | September 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nacen | July 17th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | tnd | February 16th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | dwejkk | November 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rail | May 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | measel44 | February 22nd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Titan50 | December 24th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Polvo | December 10th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | kingsoby1 EMERITUS | November 22nd 11 |
| 2.5 average | lobby | October 5th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shadow17 | September 15th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | cuki92 | September 15th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Iai EMERITUS | September 15th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | yots | September 7th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | gervin | August 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mendigo | August 13th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mmadden | August 12th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | ziroth | August 3rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Manic_ | July 25th 11 |
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