Kumm were formed by guitarist Eugen Nuțescu (also known as Oigăn) and keyboardist Kovács András, after the disbanding of their former musical projects, Short Cuts and Talitha Qumi.

Kovács wanted to form a new band, which was supposed to be, musically speaking, a fusion between jazz, rock and ethno and asked Oigăn if he was interested to be part of his project.

[4] Afterwards, Kumm were invited to play in Hungary at an alternative rock festival at Sárvár; they also underwent their first lineup changes: in April, Pap Joco returned to his hometown, Sfântu Gheorghe, while Meier Zsolt joined the musical project of Harry Tavitian, called Orient Express.

[3] In February 2000, Kumm spent three weeks in the studio Glas Transilvan from Cluj[4] to record their first album, entitled Moonsweat March.

[4] During that year, Kovács and Oigăn played a few concerts with Dan Byron under the name Naked Lunch, covering songs by Led Zeppelin, Björk and Kumm.

[2] Following the release, the band started to promote it across the country; they also had the chance to perform at several festivals, such as Days of Cluj, Fête de la Musique (Bucharest), and, most notably, Pepsi Sziget.

[4] Furthermore, Csergö Dominic, Petö Zoltán, Oigăn and Byron appeared in a play called "Pâine, orbi și saxofoane" (Romanian for "Bread, blind men and saxophones"), for which they also wrote the music.

In April, Kumm participated at the Iuliu Merca Festival, making their first cover of a Romanian song, Semnal M's "Râul" ("The River").

[4] Shortly after, saxophonist Petö Zoltán left the band and was replaced by Mihai Iordache (ex-Sarmalele Reci, ex-Timpuri Noi).

[1] While trying to find a new vocal, the members of the band also found time for their own projects: Iordache appeared as guest on Luna Amară's second studio album, Loc lipsă (Missing Place), on a track called "Din valuri ard" ("I Burn From Waves") and concentrated on his jazz music project, which also featured Oigăn and Uțu Pascu, while Csergö Dominic released a new album with Urma, entitled Anger as a Gift.

[11] Before the official release, the band made a three weeks tour of Germany, with ten concerts (last three of them in Berlin) after which they performed a few gigs in Timișoara, Arad and Oradea.

[1] On the same occasion, Kumm also released a box-set entitled Lo-Fi Poetry, with songs, pictures and rare recordings from their ten years of musical activity.

Mihai Iordache, Csergö Dominic, Alexei "Alioșa" Țurcan (ex-Travka), Andrei Filip (Timpuri Noi, L'Orchestre de Roche, The Mono Jacks, RedRum) and Forrest (ZOB) appeared as guests.

[1] On 30 May 2009, it was officially confirmed that drummer Csergö Dominic was not part of Kumm anymore, and had been replaced by Paul Ballo (Go to Berlin, The Amsterdams).

A critic called Far from Telescopes "perhaps the most mature and professional Kumm album" [28][29] In December, the first single, "Pop Song", peaked at number 1 in Radio Guerrilla's Top Show.

[33] In April, Paul Ballo and his ex-bandmate from Go to Berlin, Matei Țeposu started a new electronic music project, called Trouble Is.

[34] On April 22, 2010, Kumm released their sixth video, "Pop Song", at a concert held in Silver Church Club, Bucharest.

[37] In an interview which appeared on October 5, Ballo talked about the whole situation, explaining that he knew that at a certain point he would have left the band, but he didn't expect to be fired.

The ex-drummer said that he thought at certain moments that, musically speaking, the band was somehow stagnating, adding "I did not have time to get involved in the (album) production, especially the sound of my drums.

In the same interview, Paul Ballo also talked about his own musical projects, specifying that he wanted to release a video with Trouble Is and continue as a drummer in Go to Berlin.

[39] In March 2011, Kumm announced on their Facebook official page the departure of Alexandru Miu and the returning of Uțu Pascu, stating: "Our new bassist is our old one".

[49] The first concert with the new lineup was held in Flying Circus Pub, Cluj, on February 1; the band performed with Călina Curticăpean as guest vocalist, and kept touring with her for a while.

[50] On May 17, Kumm released a video for the song "Să nu spui nimănui" (Romanian for "Don't tell anyone"), produced by Kovács András.

[51][52] During the summer of 2013, jazz musician Ana-Cristina Leonte joined the live lineup of the band, replacing Curticăpean as guest vocalist.

[63] The reviews were positive, the album being described as a "reaffirmation of an important band for the Romanian musical scene"[64] and "a sonic medicine for the soul".

[65] In April 2014, the song "Să nu spui nimănui" was nominated for The Best Indie / Alternative Rock at One Air Music Awards.

[71] Kumm continued their live concerts, performing at Focus Festival (Sibiu) along with Omul cu Șobolani, Coma and Gojira[72] and at FILIT (Iași).

[73] In January 2015, Kumm announced their intention to celebrate 150 months since the release of their second album, Confuzz, with a small national tour featuring Dan Byron, their former lead vocal between 2001 and 2005.

[76] On June 12, Kumm performed at Arenele Romane, during Street Delivery Nights, sharing the stage with Robin and the Backstabbers and byron.

[78] On August 15, 2015, Kumm concerted at Grădina cu Filme in Bucharest with a different line-up which included Anghel Mailat (Brum) at bass guitar and Tavi Scurtu at drums, replacing John Ciurea.