Like Mycelium - Conversations on the Arts María Grand

In this episode, I spoke with Matana Roberts, who is an incredible saxophonist, vocalist, composer, visual artist, and overall creator of art. We delved into the latest installment of their Coin Coin Series, Chapter 5: In The Garden. We spoke about ancestry, their years coming up in Chicago, the creation of Coin Coin, who the original Coin Coin was, and many more fascinating topics. Enjoy.

This episode features young musician Maya Keren. They share their view on pleasure activism, music making for every human being, and how they expanded their creative process from being a very dedicated student of straight ahead jazz to an all-around open artist.

Brooklyn, NY based sound artist/composer Fay Victor hones a unique vision for the vocal role in jazz and improvised music regarding repertoire, improvisation and composition. Victor has an ‘everything is everything’ aesthetic, using the freedom in the moment to inform the appropriate musical response, viewing the vocal instrument as full of possibilities for sound exploration, a through-line for direct messages in an improvising context. Victor embraces all of these ideas in real time and on Victor’s 11 critically acclaimed albums as a leader one can hear the evolution of this expansive expression.
In this. episode we talk about her early days as a singer, the emotional impact of free improvisation, blues, and many other topics.