Following the release of their acclaimed new album The Healer and their lauded new collaborative album with Moor Mother, The Film, SUMAC have announced a tour throughout the US East Coast and Midwest. These shows will mark the first time SUMAC have toured these territories since the release of both releases, with more special shows to be announced soon.
On The Healer, SUMAC, consisting of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner, bassist Brian Cook, and drummer Nick Yacyshyn, deepens its multi-faceted exploration into the parallel experiences of creation and destruction. Over the course of 4 tracks in 76 minutes, SUMAC presents a sequence of shifting movements which undergo a constant process of expansion, contraction, corruption and regrowth. In its highest aspiration it mirrors our ability to endure mortal and spiritual challenges, through which we may emerge with an increased capacity for understanding, empathy, love of self and others. Dismal though the subterranean pits of The Healer may at first appear, from them can be felt the unwavering determination to embrace life, acknowledge interdependence, and honor the gift of existence.
The Film is an album that takes attributes of both artists’ work and finds common ground in shifting musical patterns, and expressive force. The record is a musical thumbing of their noses at the more traditional approaches of their respective fields, an innovative, powerhouse of an album. Heavy, holy, hypnotizing – beyond existence, beyond the fettered constraints of normality, past the false notions of the indoctrinated disguised as the organic, planets form; the detritus of cosmic stuff merges into galaxies, into something that can sound like it’s populated by suns. The Film is just such a work, a nebulitic collaboration between SUMAC and Moor Mother. The Film was recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle with Scott Evans. The album includes appearances by guest vocalists Kyle Kidd, Sovie, and Candice Hoyes.
SUMAC tour dates
Jul. 28 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar ^
Jul. 29 – Richmond, VA – Gallery 5 ^
Jul. 31 – Louisville, KY – Zanzabar ^
Aug. 01 – Indianapolis, IN – Black Circle ^
Aug. 02 – Chicago, IL – International Museum of Surgical Science ^
Aug. 03 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle ^
Aug. 04 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme ^
Aug. 05 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups ^
Aug. 06 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird ^
Aug. 08 – Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom ^
^ w/ Chepang, Patrick Shiroishi
