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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 ...
Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit
By Buffalo Suicide Prevention Unit
Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2005
Pre-Emptive Denial

By Paraphrase
Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Trading On All Fours; We Bow to Royalties.
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, ...
Hard Cell: Feign

by John Kelman
Groove means different things to different people. To a hard core bebop addict, it might mean a mighty sense of swing, to a funk fan a strong backbeat. Exchange positions and neither would feel the visceral impact the other's music represents to them. While considerably more rhythmically complex than a simple backbeat or straight-eights swing, alto ...
Hardcell Live

By Tim Berne
Label: Screwgun Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1 Van Gundy's Retreat Berne 7:30
2 Huevos Berne 10:09
3 Traction Berne 11:28
4 Manatee Woman Berne 16:02