ECM Records GmbH: ECM 2443/472 2298
http://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/143038752071/youve-been-watching-me-tim-bernes-snakeoil
http://player.ecmrecords.com/berne-2443
* Tim Berne : alto saxophone
* Oscar Noriega : clarinet, bass clarinet
* Ryan Ferreira : electric guitar, acoustic guitar
* Matt Mitchell : piano, electronics
* Ches Smith : drums, vibes, percussion, timpani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berne
http://www.oscarnoriega.com/
http://www.ferreiramusic.wordpress.com/
http://www.mattmitchell.us/
http://www.chessmith.com/
Recorded on December 2014 at “The Clubhouse” in Rhinebeck, NY.
Engineer: D. James Goodwin.
Assistant: Bella Blasko.
Reviews
By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/23/tim-bernes-snakeoil-youve-been-watching-me-review
From the late Eric Dolphy and one-time World Saxophone Quartet linchpin Julius
Hemphill to New Yorker Tim Berne, there’s a stylistic alto-sax line in which a
caustic instrumental tone cohabits with a rigorous sense of structure. All
three players could fox listeners as to whether they were playing a composition
or making it up. Berne, long a developer of Hemphill’s intricately contrapuntal
work, has updated the Snakeoil group with which he ingeniously joins
intricately multi-voiced music, lyricism, contemplation, and rugged
avant-funk. The original alto sax, clarinets, piano and drums now expands to
include the subtle and cinematic Ryan Ferreira’s guitar. Though this is the
most collectivised edition of Snakeoil, a wealth of fascinating detail remains,
such as excellent clarinetist Oscar Noriega’s improvisation with Ferreira’s
tone bends behind him on the ducking and diving Lost in Reddy, the quiet
tapestries of guitar, vibraphone and piano before the traffic-jam clamour and
warbling reeds meditation on Embraceable Me (the strongest track), or the
unexpected fallback to a fragile and gently winding unaccompanied guitar
feature as the title tune. Some Berne followers might find the sense of being
lost within his tightening mazes increases with this more collective venture,
but DownBeat magazine nailed Berne’s current music by declaring that it “rocks
and thinks, explores, deconstructs and, yes, it swings”.
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By Paul Acquaro
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2015/07/tim-bernes-snakeoil-youve-been-watching.html
By Mark Corroto
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/youve-been-watching-me-tim-bernes-snakeoil-ecm-records-review-by-mark-corroto.php
By Karl Ackermann
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/youve-been-watching-me-tim-berne-ecm-records-review-by-karl-ackermann.php
By Mike Shanley
http://www.jazztimes.com/articles/162842-you-ve-been-watching-me-tim-berne-s-snakeoil
By Tim Niland
http://www.jazzandblues.blogspot.com/2015/05/tim-bernes-snakeoil-youve-been-watching.html
By Grego Applegate Edwards
http://www.gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2015/04/tim-bernes-snakeoil-youve-been-watching.html
Kouřil Vladimír (cz)
http://magazinuni.cz/hudba/recenze/tim-berne%E2%80%99s-snakeoil-you%E2%80%99ve-been-watching-me/
Peter Füssl (de)
http://www.kulturzeitschrift.at/kritiken/cd-tipp/tim-berne2019s-snakeoil-you2019ve-been-watching-me
Da Leonardo Di Maio (it)
http://www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2015_timberne_youvebeenwatchingme.htm
Da Roberto Dell'Ava (it)
http://www.traccedijazz.it/index.php/recensioni/1187-tim-berne-s-snakeoil-you%E2%80%99ve-been-watching-me
Da Vincenzo Roggero (it)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/youve-been-watching-me-tim-berne-ecm-records-review-by-vincenzo-roggero.php
Por Nuno Catarino (pt)
http://www.jazz.pt/ponto-escuta/2015/05/07/tim-bernes-snakeoil-youve-been-watching-me-ecm/
Par Thierry Giard (fr)
http://www.culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article2691
Por Carlos Navarro A. (es)
http://rockaxis.com/vanguardia/discos/tim-bernes-snakeoil/youve-been-watching-me
Por Pachi Tapiz (es)
http://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=18143
