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This has been playing in the car all week. Love it.

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Dial: Log by Keith Rowe & Jeffrey Morgan (1999-08-02)
Keith Rowe & Jeffrey Morgan

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The Sublime And
Tim Berne

“For over two decades, Berne has been one of the most fiercely independent, original, and consistently engaging saxophonists and composers in jazz. The playing on this record is fiery and idiosyncratic, machine-tight yet totally open. Marc Ducret attacks his guitar like a man possessed, Craig Taborn's textural synth-work feels 100% at home inside Berne's unique compositional style, and Tom Rainey steers the ship with quirky grace. Each time the band settles into a groove, he twists the rhythm into surprisingly logical new shapes.”

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MÅTT MITCHELŁ(TÌM BERNĘ) FØRAGE



“Matt Mitchell plays Tim Berne: førage
The compositions of iconic saxophonist/bandleader Tim Berne have earned renown for their intensely kinetic, dizzyingly intricate quality as performed around the world by his various groups over the past four decades. With the album førage – available digitally and on CD from Screwgun – listeners have the chance to experience Berne’s music as never before, in versions for solo piano. Virtuoso pianist Matt Mitchell, a member of Berne’s hit band Snakeoil, has explored the full range of the composer’s songbook. In fact, Berne says: “No one knows my music better than Matt.” On førage, Mitchell devises mash-ups of multiple compositions, improvises new angles off the music, and often slows it down to reveal heretofore hidden beauties – limpid harmonies and ruminative melodies, like dark pearls unspooled. Studio maestro David Torn – a longtime sonic co-conspirator with Berne, as well as producer of Mitchell’s past two albums – helmed the recording of førage. The cover artwork and distinctive CD package is by Steven Byram, who has worked hand in glove with Berne for decades (including the recent Screwgun publication of their joint art book, Spare).
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released March 31, 2017

MÅTT MITCHELŁ(TÌM BERNĘ) FØRAGE

https://mattmitchell-timberne.bandcamp.com/album/f-rage

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Oh, if only my two favorite Berne keyboardists played together on the same recording ... oh, wait a minute.



Dan Weiss (drums, compositions)
Ben Monder (guitars)
Trevor Dunn (electric bass)
Craig Taborn (keyboards, piano)
Matt Mitchell (keyboards, piano)

https://danweiss.bandcamp.com/album/starebaby

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Junk Magic by Craig Taborn

“there is no doubt that Craig Taborn will be on the improv A-list --one final note

Craig Taborn has consistently tugged thirsty ears his way in the ensembles of high profile leaders Dave Douglas, Tim Berne and James Carter. His work has been so remarkable that some very big expectations have ensued. Here, Taborn pulls off the trick of living up to them all, while, to those of us who have been following along, serving up virtually none within the music itself.

Light Made Lighter presented Taborn's version of the futuristic piano trio concept, in his own words "staying true to certain conventions, discard[ing] others..." exploiting the ensemble identity by creative use of space and dimension. Taborn's first electric record is energizingly convention-free, yet it's also free of the new-millenium Rhodes work he's exhibited with Hard Cell , or the spooky booty-shaking organ we've heard with Carter or Gerald Cleaver .

It's as though Taborn has self-edited his obvious first couple of electric records, leap-frogging even himself. Here, he's recruited three participants of equally staggering futuristic potential: Bad Plus drummer and fellow Minneapole Dave King, legato microtonal violist Mat Maneri, and the voracious young tenorist Aaron Stewart, whose stunning efforts with Fieldwork foreshadow his work here.

Taborn's music, the sound itself , is so virulent with enigma, it becomes impossible not to follow along. So it is that we track the apparently endless counterpoint of Rhodes triads, viola and sax that begins "Junk Magic" and become confronted with the first of many looped beats that are vague in origin. Where Taborn's sequences end and King's work begins is often indistinguishable and soon rendered inconsequential. The redundancy in the foremost loops yields only rewards in the subtleties of the piece's evolution.

I'd suggest "Mystero" as the sample track from the disc. The soundscape is bony and gaunt, eerily exquisite, with King's loops propelled by dub synth-bass, Maneri's wraithlike phrasing prompting Stewart's unison. King bashes through as synth pads penetrate a disturbing chaos, a glistening electric piano rejoinder signaling a second theme stated by unison sax and viola (which provide a surprisingly comfortable texture in combination). Say it with me, people: Tension-Comma-Release.

Taborn has pulled us through thus far as rapt automatons, thinking this is some new jazztronica aesthetic growing further out of the Blue Series manifesto. More rewards await, rich and replete. "Shining Through," suggests textural dimension, a nirvana-inducing combination of Enoesque ambient leanings combined with truly modern serial classicism, complete with big bells. Remember, Taborn attended UMichigan because its faculty included prize-winning contemporary composers William Bolcom and William Albright . Sure, he's a bitchin' keyboard player, but how many leaders show they can completely jettison the "chops" side of their persona and still move us so deeply?

Back to the big expectations- the disc comes with a sticker quoting CMJ-"Craig Taborn-the Future of Jazz." While Thisty Ear may be setting itself up for a bit of backlash concerning that bold statement, I'll vouch for its accuracy. Perhaps more precise, though, to have placed an exclamation point after the word "Future." --All About Jazz.”

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The new book has arrived and a well-played cd is spinning.




Keith Rowe: The Room Extended
by Brian Olewnick

AMM ‎– From A Strange Place (Dedicated To The Tokuoka Family)

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The new cds arrived! Noisy heaven.




Science Fiction and Tim Berne

Disc 1 - Original Science Fiction 2001 studio recording

Disc 2 & 3 - Recorded live in Winterthur, Switzerland on April 12 2003. Engineered by Ron Kurz for Swiss Radio DRS2. Mixed and mastered by DT/Splattercell. Produced by Peter Burli for Swiss Radio DRS2. Executive producer Peter Gordon.


Tim Berne - alto saxophone
Marc Ducret - guitar
Craig Taborn - Fender Rhodes, laptop, organ
Tom Rainey - drums

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Tim Berne with Paraphrase
Pre-Emptive Denial