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On the new album TREES, hip hop/jazz artist Tom Scott proves he's still one of Aotearoa's best musicians.
Like Avantdale Bowling Club's self-titled 2018 debut – which won NZ Album of the Year – TREES was produced by Scott's "genius" friend Christoph El Truento. The pair, who first met as teenagers, share a love of 1960s spiritual jazz.
That sound was a big influence on both albums, Scott says, but he and El Truento tried "to breathe a bit of the modern world" into TREES by using Auto-Tune, newer drum machines and even an accordion.