Coin coin chapter five : In the garden

"The next chapter of the sprawling 'Coin Coin' project (...) doesn't disappoint. 'In the garden...' has a more explicit narrative than previous chapters (...) [and] presents a broader instrumental variety (...), showing the breadth of Roberts' compositional capabilities, and gives a sense that the project could still move in any direction ... The pieces as a whole feel fuller, and more ambitious than anything Roberts has done to date. It marks another stunning development in a series that remains essential listening".

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"Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden's collision of styles, genres, and individual and group voices are not only welcome, but essential to the process of Roberts engendering dialogue, celebrating difference, and communicating emotions, psychologies, and cultures, all testifying to the import and cultural and artistic achievement of her evolving project".

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"Afrohistoric jazz explorations from the Chicago saxophonist and bandleader: Matana Roberts' music resembles a patchwork quilt: a stitching together of spirited free jazz, harmony singing, simmering electronics and raucous fife-and-drum blues that feels both artfully constructed and loaded with personal significance ... If the sound is all over the map, the album is tethered by Roberts' spoken-word delivery. The album's tales of misogyny and chauvinism are historic, but as Roberts' delivery - wise and not a little defiant - makes clear, things ain't so different now".