A new collaborative album is coming on April 25 featuring SUMAC and Moor Mother, working together on The Film. The new record comes out via Thrill Jockey and you can listen to "Scene 1" below.
"The Film is a singular work between SUMAC – a band that uses the volume, distortion, and guitar-centric approach of metal to make music that has the malleability of jazz and textural exploration of noise – and the visionary award-winning avant-jazz poet, scholar, activist, and punk rocker Moor Mother.," the press release tells us. "Guitarist/song-writer Aaron Turner, Nick Yacyshyn writing on synth and drums, and primordial bassist Brian Cook as SUMAC, had visions of working with Moor Mother– across the liminal, gossamer thin barrier of space time, Moor Mother had the same idea. At Studio Litho where the record was recorded with engineer/mixer Scott Evans, she laid down the vocals, her words written to the sparse, yet dense and entropic sonic miasma SUMAC conjured for her. "
The collective will also perform live in Berlin and at Roadburn Festival, and SUMAC has additional tour dates (sans Moor Mother) this spring in Europe.
SUMAC and Moor Mother tour dates
Apr. 17 - Berlin, DE - Festsaal Kreuzberg *
Apr. 19 - Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival *
SUMAC on tour
Apr. 15 - Warsaw, PL - Hydrozagadka
Apr. 16 - Poznań, PL - 2Progi
Apr. 20 - Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival performing 'The Healer'
Apr. 21 - Brussels, BE - Botanique ^
Apr. 22 - Koln, DE - Bumann & Sohn ^
Apr. 23 - Karlsruhe, DE - Jubez ^
Apr. 24 - Fribourg, CH - Fri-Son ^
Apr. 25 - Innsbruck, AT - PMK ^
Apr. 26 - Munich, DE - Strom
Apr. 28 - Athens, GR - Kyttaro Live Club
* Moor Mother collab set
^ with Endon
The Film tracklist:
Scene 1
Scene 2: The Run
Hard Truth
Scene 3
Scene 4
Camera
The Truth is Out There
Scene 5: Breathing Fire
