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.mattmitchell.us/

Recorded on December 2014 at “The Clubhouse” in Rhinebeck, NY.
Engineer: D. James Goodwin.
Assistant: Bella Blasko.


Reviews
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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

By 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 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