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Vancouver international jazz festival: SUMAC WITH MOOR MOTHER

  • Fortune Sound Club 147 East Pender Street Vancouver, BC, V6A 1T6 Canada (map)

SUMAC WITH MOOR MOTHER

Friday, June 21

PRESENTED BY COASTAL JAZZ FOR VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

Friday, June 21, 2024
Fortune Sound Club
7:00PM
$37 plus service fees
147 E Pender St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1T5

SUMAC

In a time of significant social upheaval, SUMAC pushes further into the extreme polarity of their expressionistic metal, fluctuating between meticulous discipline on one end, and untethered feral energy on the other. This navigation of chaos and control is a testament to the technical skills and tour-honed collective intuition of guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer), drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), and bassist Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes).

Their humanistic lyrics strike a compassionate tone that stands in stark contrast to the misanthropy of some heavy music, and their sonic approach is akin to free jazz or abstract noise, where the emotional resonance isn’t bound up in melody as much as in performance. Fusing heavy riffage, knotty structures, and expressionistic forays into epic, wildly dynamic narrative arcs, the music of SUMAC is by no means a salve or anodyne, but neither is it nihilistic. Rather, it’s like a confrontation, a baptism by fire, a therapeutic razing. Ultimately, it’s a reminder of the life force that binds us together, and a clarion call to be an active participant in an evolving world.

Moor Mother

How do you engage the stunning, evocative, haunting gift that is Moor Mother’s latest album The Great Bailout? Only by following the trail of potent verbal and sonic poetry. Only by letting Moor Mother be your guide.

Released March 8, The Great Bailout is Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa’s ninth studio album, and third with ANTI- Records. Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse,” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices, and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism, colonialism, commerce and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop, and beat poetry in mind.

Moor Mother is presented by Coastal Jazz in association with Queer Arts Festival.

Please note this venue is stair access only. 19+. No refunds.

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