Scott Tuma

I discovered Scott Tuma's work a few years ago, with a record called THE RIVER. He's usually filed under "Americana," but I find this reductive.

This is a piece from a collaboration with Mike Weis called TARADIDDLE, just because it's what I've got to hand right now, but I find it preserves what's important about Scott Tuma. His work is powerfully strange and estranging: it smacks of mutated ground, poisoned water, rust and death. The first track off 2008's NOT FOR NOBODY is actually kind ...