avantdale bowling club: avantdale bowling club
Francisco Espregueira
Avantdale Bowling Club is a jazz project created by Auckland-based rapper and producer Tom Scott. It is much more than just a hip hop record. It is an avant-gard experiment of live jazz instrumentation mixed with personal stories, told in the first person. Relatable stories. Not only told with words, but told with the magnificent mixture of the creator's visions for his music, as a whole. And, from within, he puts that out impressively. A cutting edge project. A brave project.
Newly released, this album is making its rounds, preparing itself to be one of the best underground records of 2018. Nonetheless, Avantdale Bowling Club is a work that comes from work and knowledge, being process-focused. There's really no more adjectives that we can throw to this supreme project. It's out and available. Every turn down the road of Tom's stories on this album will bring you something new and fresh.
“This record is about...growing up. I think. It’s about dealing with your own stuff for once. Accepting responsibility, maybe. It’s a self help book addressed to myself. And just like every other piece of art ever made in history of the hominid, I was going through some shit when I was making it. I’d just left home and everyone I knew, looking to chase a dream. It was an awkward phase, like stage two puberty. I was learning how to be grown. Humility had my pride in a headlock. I was the old man at the art exhibition, the young boy at the art gallery. Everyone was in a K-hole, I was at K-Mart.”