April can’t really be the cruellest month, can it, when there’s a new Tim Berne album in the offing.

The fiery alto saxist is back with a slightly bigger version of Snakeoil on ECM release You’ve Been Watching Me due in the middle of the month, guitarist Ryan Ferreira joining Berne and the rest of the Shadow Man line-up (pianist Matt Mitchell, clarinettist Oscar Noriega, and drummer Ches Smith), the complete band heard above playing the title track at the Stone in New York.