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Big Satan: Livein Cognito
by John Kelman
Some bands are best experienced live. There's simply no denying the energy and element of surprise that occurs when playing in front of an audience. In recent years, advances in technology and a corresponding reduction in costs have closed the gap between studio and concert recordings to the point where an increasing number of artists now ...
Paraphrase: Pre-Emptive Denial
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Without a compositional safety net, freely improvising musicians must listen deeply and react quickly to avoid excess repetition or meandering. Executed with precision, the visceral immediacy of free improv can be exhilarating, as is the case on Pre-Emptive Denial, the third release by Paraphrase, saxophonist Tim Berne's improvising trio with drummer Tom Rainey and bassist Drew ...
Tim Berne's Screwgun Records: By Him, For You
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
With the launch of Screwgun Records in 1996, saxophonist-composer Tim Berne asserted ownership of his music and signaled a shift in his aesthetic perspective. Unwound, a live 3-disc set from his double-saxophone quartet Bloodcount, was taken from audience recordings - what would become a recurrent strategy - and mastered without production tweaks, evoking the sound of ...
Pre-Emptive Denial
By Paraphrase
Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Trading On All Fours; We Bow to Royalties.
Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit
By Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit
Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2005
Feign
By Hard Cell
Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: I Do It (For Brookti); Time Laugh; Brokelyn; Mechanicals Failure; My First Phone;
BG....uh....OH; I Thought You Had It; Pan/Ex.
Paraphrase: Pre-Emptive Denial
by Dan McClenaghan
Alto saxophonist Tim Berne describes himself as a perfectionist, a word that has “control" lurking just under its skin. So how does someone who's into control get comfortable going into a situation of spontaneous composition, where the unpredictable is the game plan?Paraphrase, with drummer Tom Rainey, bassist Drew Gress, and Berne, got togther to ...
Paraphrase: Pre-Emptive Denial
by John Kelman
What do you do for a release when your normal modus operandi is to play within a context of complex composed material? In the case of saxophonist Tim Berne, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Tom Rainey, the answer is to periodically convene a group called Paraphrase, whose purpose in life is to improvise without a safety ...
Hardcell: Feign
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Like a double helix of alto saxophone and piano, no matter how far Tim Berne and Craig Taborn twist and diverge their improvisations, they are always connected, intersecting with composed passages and enveloped in the swimming rhythms of drummer Tom Rainey. Feign further explores the acoustic sensibility tested on half of last year's Hard Cell Live, ...
Hard Cell: Feign
by AAJ Staff
Once you've heard a couple of hours of Tim Berne's music, you can usually identify something new as his within just a few seconds. That distinctive character has something to do with his bittersweet alto playing, but it's also related to the way foreground and background layers interweave over time, the way his snaky melodies uncurl, ...
