Matana Roberts

• DIGIPACK EDITION

The second part of Matana Roberts' projected twelve-part jazz tapestry is an extremely confounding and yet gorgeously structured work, based around four-pronged suites of free jazz, operatic vocals, smooth spoken word narratives and gospel chants. The record rises and falls around these passages of music to show the personal and political implications of civil rights and racism in America.

PERSONNEL:

• Matana Roberts - alto sax, vocals, conductor
• Thomson Kneeland - double bass, vocals
• Tomas Fujiwara - drums, vocals
• Shoko Nagai - piano
• Jeremiah Abiah - tenor vocals
• Jason Palmer - trumpet, vocals

Recorded November 28-29, 2012 at Systems II Studios, Brooklyn NY

TRACKS:

• 01. Invocation
• 02. Humility Draws Down Blue
• 03. All Nations
• 04. Twelve Sighed
• 05. Spares Of The World
• 06. Secret Covens
• 07. River Ruby Dues
• 08. Confessor Haste
• 09. Amma Jerusalem School
• 10. For This Is
• 11. Responsory
• 12. The Labor Of Their Lip
• 13. Was The Sacred Day
• 14. Lesson
• 15. Woman Red Racked
• 16. Thanks Be You
• 17. Humility Draws Down New
• 18. Benediction