KASS RICHARDS - The Language Shadow LP Death Metal Private Sector finds them confronting

Private Sector finds them confronting the grim realities of the present

The normal controls found on the analog synthesizer were customized to accept computer control and the system was large enough to input audio and control voltages from the other musicians' instruments

There is also a freight train

but SUMAC’s recent collaborations with esteemed Japanese artist Keiji Haino pushed the band completely into the realm of spontaneous composition

California and are lifelong residents of the East Bay region

KASS RICHARDS - The Language Shadow LP Death Metal Private Sector finds them confrontingKass (who works with Meg Remys U. S. Girls) sings and plays guitar, dulcimer and small instrument style percussion. Recorded at Montreals Hotel2Tango, her music has the clean, hard bite of a Northern Spy apple. Some of the songs are performed as elegant solos, but there are additional instrumental touches by several Canadian musicians from the Toronto and Montreal scenes. But even when there are a few players piling up, the arrangements maintain a