SCOTT TUMA
The River 1234 (Truckstop Records)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This is a really nice collection of instrumentals that run the gambit of effect - heavy ambient music punctuated by guitar twangs and unnamed percussion to slow, pleasant acoustic pieces that wouldn't be out of place at a folksy jamboree. It's really amazing that these pieces fit together so well on one album, given that each song is so different from the last, with just one or two threads of continuity, like a shared instrument or just a similar feeling, linking one song to the next. It's definitely one of those albums where if you put the CD player on "random" and don't listen to it the way it's laid out by the artist, you're missing out on the whole purpose of the thing.

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© 2003 - Holly Day