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Crucial Listening #24: Matana Roberts

Vitamins for the brain, learning from the masters, adventures in language. The composer and saxophonist discusses three important albums.

Matana’s picks:

1) Hannah Marcus – Desert Farmers
2) Karlheinz Stockhausen – Momente
3) Derek Bailey + Joëlle Léandre – No Waiting

Find out more about the Outlands tour over here, and keep up to date with Matana over on her website.

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