麻豆社

Corey Mwamba presents the best in new improvised music. Matana Roberts joins the programme to share how they listen to history as a personal and artistic practice: 鈥淚f people really listened, some of the things that we are currently experiencing wouldn't be happening. You can look at the rhythm of a moment in history and understand the layers that push things to a certain point. That鈥檚 how I listen to history."

Their newest release is Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden鈥�., an immersive world of poetic witnessing, interwoven folk songs, blues, and improvisation. It鈥檚 the latest addition of their Coin Coin project - a long song of America, refracted through prisms of familial stories, archival research and collective memories stored in sound. This chapter explores the story of a woman in their ancestral line who died following complications from an illegal abortion, through which they ask broader questions around reproductive justice and bodily autonomy today: 鈥淚鈥檓 trying to be in the chain link of artists who are trying to create work that is a testament to a lineage and a culture."

Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for 麻豆社 Radio 3