Scott Tuma doesn’t just create music, he creates an experience. Listening
to Scott Tuma transports the listener to another realm, it soothes and creates
upheaval, it leads and commingles, it winds down a path of nothingness only
to come out clean with a new perspective. Tuma, formerly of Souled American,
is a musician who builds sound by combining simple instruments and experiments
using multiple generations of single sounds to create an almost other-worldly
feel. He is a carpenter, a welder, a hypnotist, a healer, a pastor. Every note
he plays has purpose and meaning. It can be compared to a symphony, but rather
than elevating itself, the music stays down in the trenches with the listener,
holding their hand and helping them up to dry ground. It is powerful. It is
pure. It is revelation.
Hard Again
2001