Blackalachia captures his 2020 one-take performance in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, and rearranges tracks from both 2020's 'Græ' and 2017's 'Aromanticism'. In November, Sumney previewed the project with a clip of Bystanders (In Space).
A companion album, 'Live From Blacklachia', will arrive tomorrow (December 10). Sumney said in a statement:
“In early 2020, my band and I gathered in my home in Western North Carolina, living and breathing together, re-arranging songs from my first two albums into a live odyssey.
"As the year unfurled and the international tour was wiped off the cosmic schedule, I realized there should be some kind of record, a copper snapshot of those musical arrangements and the turmoil and beauty of that year. So we took to the Appalachian mountains and filmed and recorded 'Live From Blackalachia'.
"The band congregated in the heat of a lulled summer, with a mere 10 days to learn and re-learn the music. Drums, keys, guitars, double bass, violin, saxophones, trombone. Bees, birds, squirrels, crickets, frogs. Over the course of two days, we filmed 14 songs, totally live, the trees as our audience, the grasshoppers our background singers.
"'Live from Blackalachia' is a wild imagining of what can happen when we seek not just to reclaim nature, but to re-integrate with it."
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