By Gary Chapin

I really feel shallow typically about how strongly I
react to the timbre of issues. Like, neglect the concepts or the improvisation or
the composition, typically simply the sound
will get me. The primary notes on No Tamales on
Wednesday are from Craig Taborn’s electrical piano and people sounds introduced a smile to my face and
wave of associations. “Oh, yeah,” I believed, “We’re going to get a few of that!”

No
Tamales on Wednesday is an archival live performance recording
coming from certainly one of my absolute favourite intervals of Berne’s work. Science
Friction options Berne, Tom Rainey on drums, Marc Ducret on guitar, and Craig
Taborn on keys. It was recorded someplace by somebody in 2008, and is a really
counterpointy set of items. It’s not technically counterpoint, in fact, however
you’ll be able to undoubtedly see daylight between all of the items. There may be area.

Rainey performs as melodically as I’ve ever
heard. Berne is an endless font of music. And Ducret does Ducret. He’s at all times
been an completely distinctive specimen, taking part in not in washes or broad strokes, however in
particulate, jangle-i-fied abandon. Once more, the melodies he comes up with! And
then Craig Taborn. Sort of a magician. He opens the report after which infuses the
complete proceedings with levitation all through.

The tunes are expansive Berne works, many
heard in different settings. At a listening occasion on Bandcamp, Berne identified
that the majority of this materials confirmed up later performed by his Snakeoil group, and the
tune “Adobe Probe,” has been heard earlier than on the album of the identical identify. It’s
all knotty composition that doesn’t finish the place it begins, and typically you
don’t even understand how you bought there from right here. An exquisite thriller solved by
improvisation.

Out there on Bandcamp: https://screwgunrecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-tamales-on-wednesday