Tim Berne (alto/baritone saxophone)
Marc Ducret (electric guitar)
Tom Rainey (drums)

Alto saxophonist / composer Tim Berne's been an enormous presence in improvised music for over twenty-five years. Although he didn't pick up the alto until he was nineteen years old, he had moved to New York City and begun lessons with his great mentor Julius Hemphill by the time he was 20, in 1974. Berne's been notable for his do-it-yourself spirit and his decidedly untimid willingness to get out there and play: he was performing as a leader and releasing records like his debut The Five Year Plan by 1979, effectively doing a great deal of his musical development in the public eye. Berne spent some time recording for Columbia Records and a longer time at JMT (for which he recorded the classic Fractured Fairy Tales in 1989 as well as seminal albums by his revered groups Miniature and bloodcount). This decade has seen Berne run his own record label Screwgun while performing and recording prolifically with groups like Hard Cell, Science Friction and Paraphrase.

The above synopsis hardly covers a career as productive and interesting as Berne's...
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"...this (Big Satan) is an ear assault that thrives on Ducret's spectacular technique and the churning rhythms of Rainey, who is always ready with dynamic, hard-kicking grooves that seem to defy drum logic. With respect to Ducret specifically, he seems to be the perfect foil for Berne, sparring with the saxophonist and shooting sparks of his own with each twist of the song's content and structure..." –Jay Collins, One Final Note

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