Stream: Moses Sumney, ‘Everlasting Sigh’

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Moses Sumney in July 2015 at the echo (Photo by Carl Pocket)
Moses Sumney in July 2015 at the Echo (Photo by Carl Pocket)

If ever you’re witnessed Moses Sumney perform “Everlasting Sigh” live — 2013 was our first time, and that time in a church was the best — you might find the actual recorded version of the song anticlimactic. The song can be so of the moment — the live-looping maestro constructs it with hand swipes and handclaps (often engaging the crowd to help) and layers upon layers of vocal parts, until, presto, there’s a symphony of sound topped by his velvety lead vocal. The folk-soul singer has been working on a full-length album, but today he released what he calls “the (bedroom) studio version” of the song, which he produced along with Joshua Willing Halpern. It’s rather magical too.

||| Stream: “Everlasting Sigh”

||| Live: Moses Sumney performs June 18 as part of the Saturdays Off the 405 series at the Getty.

||| Also: “Everlasting Sigh” starts about the 20:30 mark of this segment made for KCET’s “Artbound.”