I already mentioned Scott Tuma in this blog. I compared his work with that of the soundtrack of "The Hired Hand" by Bruce Langhorne. The comparison was a little thrust, but listening to her new disc, it is only more blatant.
Scott Tuma is a native of Chicago and became known in the country band / Grunge Souled American the early 90s. It appears that this group has had some success but I have no idea the impact of this success. Tuma when I discovered it was an obscure musician more in the long list of gems based in the doldrums of underground music. He also is part of Boxhead Ensemble, a collective improvisation variable geometry with a membership ranging from Jim O'Rourke to Fred Lonberg-Holm , via Glenn Kotche ...
With Tumult label , it is possible to obtain the first four albums Souled American in cd or "Fe," "Flubber," "Around the Horn" and "Sonny." Long out of print vinyl, the Oblique still had until recently a copy vinyl "Around the Horn." Through these four albums, Souled American We offer original compositions but also revisiting many classic country / folk.
So, the latest album by Scott Tuma is intended as a response to the human quest in which he started in the mid 80s. Standing as one man standing in front of adversity, the inner edge of the abyss in which he launches at each of its creations. There is something profoundly intimate compositions Tuma; some sort of lyricism fragile, standing balanced on the sharp edge of a sword of Damocles that threatens to collapse every time on the back of his neck. For it is surely not lose his head, when you start an episode where creative efforts made to address and articulate the melancholy that seems to live without ever wanting to leave. On "Dandelion," Scott Tuma is accompanied by bassist Jason Ajemian , percussionist Mike Weis of Zelionople (and with whom he has plans Good Stuff House) and James Barker. All three have achieved a magnificent work, etheric, which blends banjo, guitar, violin, bells, field recordings .... The play "Red Roses For Me" is particularly successful, especially when manifested the spectrum of a distant saxophone indulging in a free improvisation ... Play percussion Mike Weis is sublime, while resonances of metal and fully support the intangible side of the work. Like a dandelion in late summer, after having offered the man his eye bright yellow colors and green, the flower off and it remains a skeleton. Frail carcass threatening to fly at the slightest gust of wind.
Where stops the vinyl version of this album, the CD version will include halfway piece entitled "intermissions" of more than 20 minutes. Beginning with a long moment of silence to mark the coming end of what would be the album in its entirety, it is broken by what appears to be a English radio program riddled with moments of orchestral music accompanied by generic choirs, such as announcements of an old television. The reception was more or less good, it oscillates between the sound of the airwaves and scratchy sound of prayers can emerge from a distant world who think the sound collage "Ethika Fon Ethica" Album "Click" De Franco Battiato but in much more linear.
Following this "intermission" Tuma resumed her way to work with "Smallpipes 1 2 3". Smallpipes these are actually recordings of the group, either with Jason Ajemian, James Barker, Mike Weis, Kimber and Johnny James Provencher. Very beautiful pieces, the CD version of "Dandelion" offers us by way of taste a possible group project for Scott Tuma. Now we cross our fingers ... For
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