Feign (album)

2005 live album by Tim Berne's Hard Cell

Feign

Live album by

Tim Berne's Hard Cell

Released| 2005
Recorded| May 12 & 13, 2005
Rheinbeck
Genre| Jazz
Length| 51:06
Label| Screwgun
SC 70015
Producer| Tim Berne
Tim Berne chronology
| Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live
(2004)  | Feign
(2005)  | Pre-Emptive Denial
(2005)

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Feign is a studio album by saxophonist Tim Berne's Hard Cell which was recorded in 2005 at The Clubhouse Recording Studio and released on Berne's Screwgun label.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
The Guardian| [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [4]

The AllMusic review awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Feign is a blast of energized modern creative music, free improvisation corralled into appealing structures, and even moments of unexpected lyricism and beauty. It is 100 percent Tim Berne at his best, brought to full realization along with long-term collaborator Rainey and that relatively new kid on the Brooklyn block, Craig Taborn, who demonstrates without a doubt that he has become a full-fledged resident of Berne's musical neighborhood".[2]

Writing in The Guardian, John Fordham called it a "fiercely focused set, in which Berne's bowstring-tight structures frame the music without restricting the improvising".[3]

The All About Jazz review by John Kelman said that "Feign is the perfect introduction to Berne for newcomers. For already committed fans, it's a lighter but equally compelling continuation of his ongoing evolution".[5]

The JazzTimes review by Thomas Conrad said "it is exactly the right sonic companion for certain moods--say, evenings when one recoils from emotional subjectivity and craves unadorned mineral (as opposed to animal or vegetable) truth. Berne configures intricate aural designs with the integrity of constant creative pressure and (despite the high output) few wasted notes".[6]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Tim Berne

1. "I Do It (For Brookti)" - 3:40
2. "Time Laugh" - 9:10
3. "Brokelyn" - 8:15
4. "Mechanicals Failure" - 6:34
5. "My First Phone" - 8:25
6. "BG....Uh....OH" - 4:21
7. "I Thought You Had It" - 7:55
8. "Pan/Ex" - 2:46

## Personnel

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* Tim Berne \- alto saxophone
* Craig Taborn \- piano
* Tom Rainey \- drums

## References

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1. ^ "Hardcell - Feign". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
2. ^ a b Allmusic Review accessed October 15, 2014
3. ^ a b Fordham, J., The Guardian Review, October 7, 2005
4. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 121\. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
5. ^ Kelman, J. Feign Review All About Jazz, September 9, 2005
6. ^ Conrad, T., Hard Cell: Feign JazzTimes, December 2005

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Tim Berne

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.

Studio albums|

* The Five-Year Plan (1979)
* 7X (1980)
* Spectres (1981)
* Mutant Variations (1983)
* Theoretically (with Bill Frisell, 1984)
* Fulton Street Maul (1986)
* Sanctified Dreams (1987)
* Miniature (with Joey Baron and Hank Roberts, 1988)
* Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales (1989)
* Pace Yourself (1990)
* I Can't Put My Finger on It (with Joey Baron and Hank Roberts, 1991)
* Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill) (1992)
* Nice View (1993)
* The Sevens (2001)
* The Shell Game (2001)
* Science Friction (2001)
* Souls Saved Hear (2003)
* Old and Unwise (with Bruno Chevillon, 2010)
* Snakeoil (2011)
* Shadow Man (2013)
* You've Been Watching Me (2014)
* Incidentals (2014)

Live albums|

* Songs and Rituals in Real Time (1981)
* The Ancestors (1983)
* Inference (with Marilyn Crispell, 1992)
* Lowlife: The Paris Concert (1994)
* Poisoned Minds: The Paris Concert (1994)
* Memory Select: The Paris Concert (1994)
* Big Satan (with Marc Ducret and Tom Rainey, 1996)
* Unwound (1996)
* Visitation Rites (1996)
* Discretion (1997)
* Saturation Point (1997)
* Seconds (1997)
* Insomnia (1997)
* Ornery People (with Michael Formanek, 1997)
* Please Advise (1998)
* Cause & Reflect (with Hank Roberts, 1998)
* Open, Coma (with Herb Robertson and Marc Ducret, 2000)
* The Sublime And (2003)
* Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live (2004)
* Feign (2005)
* Pre-Emptive Denial (2005)
* Livein Cognito (as Big Satan, 2006)
* (Duck) (2007)
* The Veil (with Jim Black and Nels Cline, 2009)

Related articles|

* Screwgun Records
* Big Satan

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