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Moses Sumney releases self-directed concert film
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 9 December 2021
Moses Sumney has released a new live film, called ‘Blackalachia’, which he directed, and which features performances of songs from his ‘Græ’ and ‘Aromanticism’ albums that were staged in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.
“Over the course of two days, we filmed fourteen songs, totally live, the trees as our audience, the grasshoppers our background singers”, says Sumney. “The film is a wild imagining of what can happen when we seek not just to reclaim nature, but to reintegrate with it”.
The film was funded by WeTransfer’s WePresent platform. Its Editor-In-Chief and Executive Producer, Holly Fraser, says: “‘Blackalachia’ was filmed during the pandemic when musicians were unable to perform to live crowds. WePresent was able to support Sumney in bringing this stunning and layered film to life during this difficult time and now we are able to finally share it with the world on our platform”.
Last month, WePresent also released a short film made by Little Simz, based on her song ‘I Love You, I Hate You’.
Read more about ‘Blackalachia’ here, and watch the full performance here:
