{"product_id":"youve-been-watching-me","title":"You've Been Watching Me","description":"\u003cp\u003eTim Berne's third ECM album, 'You've Been Watching Me', sees the saxophonist-composer again leading his dynamic New York band Snakeoil, but with the quartet now a quintet with the arrival of guitarist Ryan Ferreira, whose sound adds textural allure.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe group's 2013 release, 'Shadow Man', garnered Berne some of the highest praise of his career as a composer and bandleader. DownBeat said: \"This music rocks and thinks, explores, deconstructs, and swings, in its own identifiably angular, Berne-ian way.\"\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIf Berne has hit a new peak with his writing on this new recording, his band has reached a heightened state of collective interaction. Snakeoil can still be bracingly kinetic. But there is new space in these compositions and more lyrical focus to the improvisations, leading to a dramatic, even cinematic experience in such tracks as \"Embraceable Me.\" Berne's music has never been richer or more arresting.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e'Snakeoil', from 2012, was Berne's first studio album after nearly a decade of live recordings; the music represented not only a new band but an exciting new era in the leader's work, more harmonically rich and detail-conscious. 'Shadow Man', released the following year, aimed to document the powerful dynamics of the confident, road-honed Snakeoil band, virtually live in the studio. 'You've Been Watching Me' - recorded, like 'Shadow Man', at the Clubhouse in upstate New York, with production and mixing by ECM veteran David Torn - documents a further evolutionary leap. \"I look at studio records as like little movies,\" Berne says. \"And rather than make a sequel, I'd always rather make an entirely new movie.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTim Berne was recently named No. 7 of New York City's \"essential jazz icons\" by Time Out New York and declared \"a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction\" by The New York Times.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003ePersonnel: Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Oscar Noriega (clarinet, bass clarinet), Matt Mitchell (piano and electronics), Ryan Ferreira (electric and acoustic guitars), Ches Smith (drums, vibraphone, percussion, timpani)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50465937293643,"sku":"2018450","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_31bc721a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727299377","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/youve-been-watching-me","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}