SUMAC and Moor Mother are formidable artists in their own right, with an impressive array of music in both of their audio arsenals, and that combined with working in collaboration with artists like The Bug, Show Me The Body, Armand Hammer and Keiji Haino shows a love and desire for making forward thinking music.
Having previously worked together themselves when Moor Mother remixed SUMAC’s ‘World of Light’ from The Keeper′s Tongue EP, the prospect of both working together again was tantalising indeed and this has come to fruition on their new similarly forward thinking collaborative album The Film, and it has to be said that the results are utterly breathtaking.
In keeping with the the title of the album, The Film is cinematic in its outlook and execution with the lyrics of Moor Mother delivered in her unique relentless yet poetic way perfectly flowing over the titanium heavy rhythms that the SUMAC trio of Aaron Turner, Brian Cook and Nick Yacyshyn detonate.
The depth of the music and vocals is impressive throughout and when you add in the haunting vocals of Candice Hoyes (on ‘Hard Truth’), Kyle Kidd (on ‘Scene 3’) and Sovei (on ‘Scene 4’) onto proceedings on the songs they feature on, it gives off a hypnotic vibe that only adds to the celluloid quality of The Film.
With the tracks on The Film being segued into those various scenes, the scope is undeniably brilliant and the way these scenes flow is mind blowing in its delivery, with Moor Mother and SUMAC proving working together on a full length, to be a match made in sonic heaven with the experimental feel working in tandem with the cinematic outlook, in a completely hard hitting fashion.
The Film is an uncompromising, unrelenting, uncommercial, and unstoppable record (in fact there are so many Uns to describe the album, Lance Rivera might have something to say about it) and with the cinematic theme, hopefully a sequel will be something that both Moor Mother and SUMAC will work on in the future.
