Nice View

Tim Berne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 12, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Winter & Winter
• ASIN: B0006BLIG8
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,871 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It Could Have Been Alot Worse

2. The Third Rail

3. Impacted Wisdom

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A ball of string, April 9, 2000

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David Watts (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nice View (Audio CD)

Hm, you gotta like avante garde or get lost on this one. It's like a ball of string - it looks messy, but you know that it's one continuous piece of string, and you can clearly see each end - all you gotta do is unravel it.

Django Bates guests on this one, and he brings some good old british eccentricity with him. Each piece here is a fully relaized peice of improvisation that has an internal logic that it took me a time to figure out. The track lengths allow you plenty opf time to do it - track 1 is 21 minutes, track 2 17 minutes and track three 38 minutes. Three tacks, but no shortage of music then!

This is wild - yet at time restrained music. Beauty in its unpredictability. Get it and play it many times, when the gates open, you get immersed in some wonderful interplay.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice View - Great Recording, October 9, 1999

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Douglas T Martin (Alpharetta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the best recording of Marc Ducret I've ever heard. He opens "It Could Have Been A Lot Worse" with some delicate Derek Bailey-esque solo guitar before roaring into Sonny Sharrock territory; all of his parts, whether as soloist or part of the ensemble, are great. And Bobby Previte really tears up the drums; his style on this recording reminds me of Buddy Rich, Billy Martin, and Jim Black - very animated and dead-on precise. The material is good, the band is tighter than a banjo string, and there's a lot of enthusiasm in the performance; Tim Berne's solo about 10 minutes into the first track is one of his most scorching. Well-recorded and well-played.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another mind-boggling release from Berne and friends., June 15, 2003

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T. Klaase (Orange Park, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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Marc Ducret opens this album with some slide guitar - the likes I've never heard before. After a minute and a half (or so) horns come in and then Bobby Previte happens. The entire band then begins playing a melody that seems to have no start and no end - in a time signature that seems to be form another planet. Oh, it's so lovely. Why spoil the CD with labels of Avant Gard, etc. It's new and fresh - that much is without doubt!

Musicianship is stunning on all levels as are the compositions. A few brief moments of burst I'm not sure I get but on the whole a grand experience. Gentleman, I'm quite moved. One must respect this type of recording - as a musician especially. Enjoy! If you like this album get "Fractured Fairy Tales" - It may even be (dare I say it?) better?