SUMAC and Moor Mother have announced their debut collaborative album, The Film, will arrive on April 25th via Thrill Jockey (The Body, Big Brave). Along with the album’s announcement, the group have shared the lead single and opening track “Scene 1.”

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. 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.

Around the record’s release, SUMAC and Moor Mother will be premiering their collaborative performances in Berlin and at Roadburn Festival. Additionally, SUMAC will be heading out on a European tour this Spring with special guests, Japan’s ENDON.

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

Pre-order SUMAC and Moor Mother’s The Film HERE