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Moses Sumney

Live From Blackalachia

    ‘Live From Blackalachia’ is a live album and movie composed of dynamic band arrangements from Moses Sumney’s first two albums. It was recorded in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the summer of 2020, on a stage built on a hill nestled within a 72- acre ranch. In January 2020, Moses Sumney and band gathered in Western North Carolina to design festival-ready versions of songs from ‘Aromanticism’ and ‘græ’. After the world shut down and the tour was cancelled, Moses maintained a desire to share the show, but in a new way. Not just a live stream or recording. A film. A concert film. So, in the summer of 2020, the band re-convened in Asheville and designed the show for ‘Live From Blackalachia’. Moses directed the conceptual concert film and decided to release it in both audio and visual formats.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Insula
    2. Virile
    3. Conveyor
    4. Quarrel
    5. In Bloom (In The Woods)
    6. Space Nation Race Place
    7. Colouour
    8. Plastic
    9. Bless Me
    10. Bystanders (In Space)
    11. Me In 20 Years
    12. Doomed
    13. Polly

    Moses Sumney

    Græ

      Moses Sumney evades definition as an act of duty: technicolor videos and monochrome clothes; Art Rock and Black Classical; blowing into Fashion Week from a small town in North Carolina; seemingly infinite collaborators, but only one staggering voice. A young life spent betwixt Southern California and Accra, Ghana — not so much rootless as an epyphite, an air plant. The scale is cinematic but the moves are precise deeds of art and stewardship. Sumney’s new, generous album, græ, is an assertion that the undefinable still exists and dwelling in it is an act of resistance.

      To try to pin Sumney down on a sound - and really, on any matter - is to end up with a hand full of fog, but his genius is never allowing the set to sound like a hodgepodge. His forthcoming double album expands upon the sonic universe built in Sumney's critically-acclaimed debut LP Aromanticism and subsequent EP Black In Deep Red, 2014. The songs on græ may be divergent, like the visceral, Smashing Pumpkins drama of "Virile" and the intoxicated, outro jazz of "Gagarin." There's the kinky, ambiguous bop of "Cut Me" countered with the sweeping, amphitheater-ready "Bless Me." But there's that voice, always unknowable and penetrating, threading these pieces together: a heavenly rasp, a whale call, Miles' horn, a soulful snarl. It all works to create a paradox, keeping art and artist somewhere between any one sure thing - but surely something that demands your attention affixed and your breath bated. All of this is græ.

      There's probably a biblical analogy to be made about a person who just happens to be named Moses, who flees the binary, splits a massive body into two pieces, and leads us through the in-between - holy and wholly rebellious. By breaking up græ into two multifaceted, dynamic pieces, Sumney is quite literally creating a "grey" in-between space for listeners to absorb and consider the art. Not strictly singles, not strictly albums, never altogether songs or spoken word segments on their own. It's neither here nor there. Neither/Nor, if you will. 

      TRACK LISTING

      Side A [22:57]
      1. Insula [00:47] 
      2. Cut Me [04:10]
      3. In Bloom [03:03] 
      4. Virile [04:16] 
      5. Conveyor [03:24] 
      6. Boxes [01:22]
      7. Gagarin [05:55] 

      Side B [15:18]
      8. Jill/jack [01:33] 
      9. Colouour [03:08] 
      10. Also Also Also And And And [01:32] 
      11. Neither/Nor [05:27]
      12. Polly [03:38] 

      Side C [19:44]
      13. Two Dogs [03:56] 
      14. Bystanders [04:14] 
      15. Me In 20 Years [03:41] 
      16. Keeps Me Alive [02:56]
      17. Lucky Me [04:57]

      Side D [07:55]
      18. And So I Come To Isolation [00:49] 
      19. Bless Me [05:00] 
      20. Before You Go [02:06]

      Moses Sumney

      Aromanticism

        Aromanticism is a concept album about lovelessness as a sonic dreamscape. It seeks to interrogate the social constructions around romance. The debut will include the recently released single "Doomed," as well as new versions of standouts "Lonely World" and "Plastic."


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