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The Sublime And

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc one: Van Gundy's Retreat; The Shell Game; Mrs. Subliminal/Clownfinger. Disc two: Smallfry; Jalape

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Article: Album Review

Tim Berne's Science Friction Band fuses a quartet of radical sound sculptors who leave fields of scorched earth in their wake. The one-time prot'g' of Julius Hemphill continues to forge daring jagged music that blurs borders and leaps genres. With repeated listenings patterns and structures reveal themselves between periods of intensely imaginative improvisations. Ironically, for such ...

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Article: Album Review

Tim Berne's Science Friction Band: The Sublime And

Read "The Sublime And" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 3, 2003

Whatever Tim Berne does in the studio always seems to end up magnified when it appears live on record. The central features of Berne's music--short, irregularly timed unison melodies, obliquely intertwined improvisational lines, and an edgy recklessness--all blow up in magnitude on The Sublime And. So does the size of the recording, which in this case ...