Shadow Man

Shadow Man is an album by American composer and saxophonist Tim Berne's band Snakeoil which was released on the ECM label in 2013. Reception The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Shadow Man'''s experiment, in trying to capture Snakeoil's live performance in detail and dynamic, is not only successful, it reveals this band at a peak of instinctive, intuitive creativity and imagination". Writing in The Guardian, John Fordham commented "mingling wide-interval melodies that sometimes sound like contemporary classical music and sometimes trampling funk, quiet solos or intimate duets, tonal contrasts (warm clarinet lyricism, glimmering vibraphones, free-jazz sax wailing), dynamic percussion and unrelenting eventfulness. It's edgy, pattern spinning contemporary music, but austere it certainly is not".