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No Greener Grass

by Scott Tuma

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    Limited to 250. Screen printed art by Ben Chlapek

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    3 x Scott Tuma LP Releases

    - No Greener Grass 2xLP
    - Gone To Turin 12" Split w/ Loren Connors
    - Ragged Hallow 12" Split w/ Nevada Greene

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There 01:35
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Buck 03:02
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Fandango 02:31
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Droopt 01:43
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Miss You 02:48
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N'old 05:47
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Slovak 04:14
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Into Joy 02:39
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Basie 01:24
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Miss Me? 03:43
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'Darlin 02:17
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Durango 01:45
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Little Love 02:27
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This Fall 01:54
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Bogr'd 03:44
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Mag's 03:25
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Valse 01:50
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Auld Sod 03:37
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Ofden 01:55
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N'Slough 03:42

about

'Chicago folk ascetic Scott Tuma’s ‘No Greener Grass’ is a deep-rooted and photographic song cycle. Unfolding like a palimpsest of American roots music the album as a whole creates an aural moiré effect as the distorted echoes of the past are put to use in documenting the ever-fleeting present.
The music here moves to idiosyncratic rhythms of daily life - the dry rustling of autumn leaves and the chatter of sparrows in the gangway or the pattering dance of child’s play as heard from the floor overhead. Recorded with the windows open and the sounds of the seasons filling the room, Tuma gently wrings slight and barely recognizable figures into revenant waltzes and translucent veils of layered light, capturing a feeling that is both haunting and otherworldly but also keenly familiar - too emotionally fundamental to be translated into anything but aerial abstractions.
An epic and cumulative work, No Greener sees Tuma working with frequent collaborator Jason Ajemian through an extended series of brief pieces and familiar motifs informed by themes of recurring seasonal change and universal impermanence and intrigued by the romance, magic and pain of memory and nostalgia.'
Limited to 250 copies hand screen printed by printmaker Ben Chlapek

credits

released August 15, 2017

Made by Nature
w/ Scott Tuma & Jason Ajemian

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all rights reserved

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