You've Been Watching Me

You've Been Watching Me
- Tim Berne's Snakeoil reaches a heightened state of collective interaction with guitar adding new textural allure
Tim Berne: Alto saxophone
Oscar Noriega: Bass and B-flat clarinets
Matt Mitchell: Piano and electronics
Ryan Ferreira: Electric and acoustic guitars
Ches Smith: Drums, vibraphone, percussion, timpani

Tim Berne s third ECM album, You ve Been Watching Me, sees the saxophonist-composer again leading his ultra-dynamic New York band Snakeoil, but with the quartet now a quintet with the arrival of guitarist Ryan Ferreira, whose sound adds textural allure. The group s 2013 release, Shadow Man, garnered Berne some of the highest praise of his career as a composer and bandleader, with JazzTimes marveling over how his work grows wilder and deeper. The four-star DownBeat review said: This music rocks and thinks, explores, deconstructs and, yes, it swings, in its own identifiably angular, Berne-ian way. Just as Berne has hit a new peak with his writing on You ve Been Watching Me, his band has reached a heightened state of collective interaction, realizing the compositions to a tee. Snakeoil with the leader on alto sax alongside pianist Matt Mitchell, clarinetist Oscar Noriega, percussionist Ches Smith and Ferreira on electric and acoustic guitars can still be bracingly kinetic. But there is new space in these compositions and more lyrical focus to the improvisations, leading to a dramatic, even cinematic experience in such tracks as Embraceable Me. Put simply, Berne s music has never been richer or more arresting.

Recorded December 2014 at The Clubhouse in Brooklyn, NY
Recording Engineer: D. James Goodwin
DDD
Produced by David Torn
Country USA
Brand Verve Label Group
Manufacturer ECM
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 16624659
Model 33707942
ReleaseDate 2015-04-14
UnitCount 1
UPCs 602547222985
EANs 0602547222985

Country	USA
Brand	Verve Label Group
Manufacturer	ECM
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	16624659
Model	33707942
ReleaseDate	2015-04-14
UnitCount	1
UPCs	602547222985
EANs	0602547222985

You've Been Watching Me

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