Screwgun Records discography This is a discography of albums released on Screwgun Records. Screwgun was setup by Tim Berne in 1996 primarily as an outlet for his own music, though albums by other musicians have been released on the label. The list below is split into two sections: the first section comprises CDs released from 1996 onward most of which have 70000 series catalog numbers the second section comprises digital only releases mainly in the 2020s.

Unwound, Tim Berne's Bloodcount, 1996, Screwgun SCREWU 70001 Tracks : CD 1 (We're Only In It for the Food): Bro'ball, No Ma'am, Yes Dear / CD 2 (An Average Daze): Loose Ends, Bloodcount, Mr. Johnsons Blues / CD 3 (The Fan): The Other, What Are the Odds Musicians : Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Michael Formanek, Jim Black A 3 CD release of live music recorded in Berlin and Ann Arbor in the spring of 1996.

Visitation Rites, Tim Berne's Paraphrase, 1997, Screwgun SCREWU 70002 Tracks : Poetic License, Piano Justice, I Can't Wait 'Till Tomorrow Musicians : Tim Berne, Drew Gress, Tom Rainey Recorded live in Berlin in 1996.

Discretion, Tim Berne's Bloodcount, 1997, Screwgun SCREWU 70003 Tracks : Is That a Gap?, The Opener, Talk Dirty to Me, Eye Are Us, Byram's World Musicians : Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Michael Formanek, Jim Black Recorded live in New York, Munich and Grinell (Iowa) in 1997.

Saturation Point, Tim Berne's Bloodcount, 1997, Screwgun SCREWU 70004 Tracks : Is That A Gap?, Screwgun, Snow White, The Opener Musicians : Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Michael Formanek, Jim Black Recorded live in St. Louis, Missouri in 1997.

Un Certain Malaise, Marc Ducret, 1998, Screwgun SCREWU 70005 Tracks : What Did I Forget? / Old Brown Shoe, (Détail), Méfiance, Un Certain Malaise, Le Bruit Court, La Mazurka Musicians : Marc Ducret

Am I Bothering You?, Michael Formanek, 1998, Screwgun SCREWU 70006 Tracks : Crawlspace, Diesel Shortbread, Overhead Justice, C-Clamp Wedgie, Theramin, Oh... The Glitch, Ruff Kut, Seams, Osimodo, Streams / Rollin' Stone Musicians : Michael Formanek

Quiet Nights, Django Bates, 1998, Screwgun SCREWU 70007 Tracks : Speak Low, Teach Me Tonight, And the Mermaid Laughed, Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo, (In My) Solitude, Like Someone in Love, Is There Anyone Up There?, Over the Rainbow Musicians : Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, Josefine Cronholm, Mike Mondesir, Martin France

Blue Boyé, Julius Hemphill, 1998, Screwgun SCREWU 70008 Tracks : Countryside, Hotend, OK Rubberband, Antecedent, Kansas City Line, C.M.E., Dirty Row, Homeboy Tootin' At The Dog/Star Musicians : Julius Hemphill Recorded in 1977 and originally released on Hemphill's label Mbari in 1977 as a double LP. Reissued on CD on Screwgun in 1997 with a different front cover

The Empire Box, Tim Berne, 1998, Screwgun SCREWU 70009 Tracks : CD 1 (The Five Year Plan): The Glasco Cowboy (For Julius Hemphill), A.K. Wadud (For Abdul Wadud), Computerized Taps For 12 Different Steps, N.Y.C. Rites / CD 2 (7X): Chang, The Water People (For Brian Horner), 7X Flies, A Pearl In The Oliver C., Showtime (For Don And Thelma Cline) / CD 3 (Spectres): Hot And Cold, Spectres, Grendel (For Hamid Drake), Stroll, For Charles Mingus / CDs 4 & 5 (Songs And Rituals In Real Time...): San Antonio / The Unknown Factor (For Akira Kurosawa), Roberto Miguel (For Roberto Miguel Miranda), New Dog / Old Tricks, Shirley's Song (For Shirley Britt) / The Mutant Of Alberan, Flies / The Ancient Ones (For Alex Cline) Musicians : CD 1: Tim Berne, Glenn Ferris, Vinny Golia, John Carter, Roberto Miranda, Alex Cline / CD 2: Tim Berne, , John RapsonVinny Golia, Nels Cline, Roberto Miranda, Alex Cline / CD 3: Tim Berne, Olu Dara, James Harvey, Ed Schuller, John Lindberg, Alex Cline / CDs 4 & 5: Tim Berne, Mack Goldsbury, Ed Schuller, Paul Motian A 5 CD box set that brings together four Tim Berne albums that were originally released on Empire: The Five-Year Plan (1979), 7X (1980), Spectres (1981), and Songs And Rituals In Real Time... (1982).

L'Ombra di Verdi, Marc Ducret, 1999, Screwgun SCREWU 70010 Tracks : Dialectes, Lust, Description Du Tunnel, Une Scène Surtout Se Renouvelait Chaque Jour, Tarot, Un Certain Malaise Musicians : Marc Ducret, Bruno Chevillon, Eric Echampard

Please Advise, Tim Berne's Paraphrase, 1999, Screwgun SCREWU 70011 Tracks : Critical Mass, Good Evening Musicians : Tim Berne, Drew Gress, Tom Rainey Recorded live in Karlsruhe in 1998.

Open, Coma, Tim Berne and The Copenhagen Art Ensemble with Herb Robertson and Marc Ducret, 2001, Screwgun SCREWU 012 Tracks : CD 1: Open, Coma, Eye Contact / CD 2: The Legend Of P-1, Impacted Wisdom Musicians : Tim Berne, Herb Robertson, Lars Vissing, Kasper Tranberg, Mads Hyhne, Klaus Löhrer, Lotte Anker, Thomas Agergaard, Peter Fuglsang, Thomas Clausen, Marc Ducret, Nils Davisen, Anders Mogensen

Science Friction, Tim Berne, 2002, Screwgun SCREWU 013 Tracks : Huevos, iHornet, Sigh Fry, Manatee Woman, Mikromaus, Jalapeño Diplomacy, The Mallomar Maneuvre, Clown Finger Musicians : Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey

Electric and Acoustic Hard Cell Live, Tim Berne's Hard Cell, 2004, Screwgun sc 70014 Tracks : Van Gundy's Retreat, Huevos, Traction, Manatee Woman Musicians : Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey

Feign, Tim Berne's Hard Cell, 2005, Screwgun sc 70015 Tracks : I Do It (For Brookti), Time Laugh, Brokelyn, Mechanicals Failure, My First Phone, BG....Uh....OH, I Thought You Had It, Pan/Ex Musicians : Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey

Pre-Emptive Denial, Tim Berne's Paraphrase, 2005, Screwgun sc 70016 Tracks : Trading on All Fours, We Bow to Royalties Musicians : Tim Berne, Drew Gress, Tom Rainey Recorded live at The Stone in New York City in May 2005.

Livein Cognito, Tim Berne's Big Satan, 2006, Screwgun sc 70017 Tracks : CD 1: (Desperate): Deadpan, L' Ombra Di Verdi, Untitled, Ce Sont les Noms des Mots, Un Peu D'Histoire / CD 2: (MoreDesperate): Mechanicals Failure, Mr. Subliminal, Untitled, The Mini-Bar Incident, Cause and Reflect, BG Uh Oh Musicians : Tim Berne, Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey

Mind Over Friction, Tim Berne's Science Friction, 2007, Screwgun sc 70018 Tracks : Huevos, iHornet, Sigh Fry, Manatee Woman, Mikromaus, Jalapeño Diplomacy, The Mallomar Maneuvre, Clown Finger, Van Gundy's Retreat, The Shell Game, Mrs. Subliminal/Clownfinger, Smallfry, Jalapeño Diplomacy/Traction, Stuckon U Musicians : Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey A 3 CD collection that combines the 2002 CD Science Friction and the 2003 double CD The Sublime And.

Seconds, Tim Berne's Bloodcount, 2007, Screwgun sc 70019 Tracks : CD 1 (Live In The Middle Of Somewhere '97 ): Scrap Metal, Yes, Dear, Mr. Johnson / CD 2: (Live At The Children Of The Corn Festival '97): Sense And Sinsemilla, Screwgun, Byram's World, Yes, Dear, Howmuch Longer / DVD (Eyenoises... The Paris Movie 1994): Eyecontact Musicians : Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Michael Formanek, Jim Black, Marc Ducret (DVD only) A 2 CD / 1 DVD set with live music from 1997 plus a documentary from 1994.

(Duck), Buffalo Collision, 2008, Screwgun ? Tracks : 1st Of 3, 2nd Of 4, 3rd Of 5 Musicians : Dave King, Ethan Iverson, Hank Roberts, Tim Berne

Spare/Anguis Oleum, Tim Berne / Steve Byram, Snakeoil, 2015, Screwgun ? Tracks : Deadbeat Beyonce, Spare Parts, Lamé, OC-DC Musicians : Tim Berne, Oscar Noriega, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith A CD of live recordings that was distributed with the book Spare by Tim Berne and STeve Byram.

Forage, Matt Mitchell, 2017, Screwgun Tracks : Pænë, Traçes, Àäš, Räåy, Œrbs, Cløùde, Sîïñ Musicians : Matt Mitchell Studio recordings of Tim Berne compositions.

Angel Dusk, Tim Berne / Matt Mitchell, 2018, Screwgun Tracks : Perception / Reception, Not Too Two, Exception / Pest, Concepciòn, Starfish Blues, Chance, Snail's Pace, Petulance Musicians : Tim Berne, Matt Mitchell

Palm Sweat: Plays The Music Of Tim Berne, Marc Ducret, 2023, Screwgun/OOYH 001 Tracks : Curls / Palm Sweat / Mirth Of The Cool, Rolled Oats 2, Shiteless 1, The Iceman, Stutter Step, Rolled Oats, Shiteless 2, Static, About This Recording Musicians : Marc Ducret, Fabrice Martinez, Christiane Bopp, Sylvaine Hélary, Bruno Ducret

Yikes Too, Tim Berne / Tom Rainey / Gregg Belisle-Chi, 2025, Screwgun/OOYH 002 Tracks : CD1 (Studio): Oddly Enough, Guitar Star, Yikes, Yikes 2, Marmite Woman, Julius Hemphill, Bat Channel, Trauma, Poky(e), Sorry Variations / CD2 (Live In Seattle): Bat Channel, Oddly Enough, Curls, Guitar Star, Trauma, Sludge, Clandestine, Middle Seat Blues Musicians : Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Gregg Belisle-Chi

Screwgun Records: digital only releases

Slipped On A Bar, Prezens, 2009, Screwgun Tracks : Bar To Be, Bar To See, Bar Too, Eh Musicians : David Torn, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey Live recordings from 2006. First released digitally in 2009 and reissued digitally in 2020.

2020 release

2009 release

My First Tour: Live In Brussels, Tim Berne, 2017, Screwgun Tracks : Homage, Flies, Mutant Of Alberan Excerpt, Spectres, Tin Ear, No Idea Musicians : Tim Berne, Paul Motian, Ed Schuller, Herb Robertson Recorded live in Brussels in 1983.

Sacred Vowels, Tim Berne, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : Darn That, Rose Colored Assive, Palm Sweat, Curls, Discrete, D'Tease, Aunt Acid, Mirth Of The Cool, Cluster, Swig Swag, Baikida, Chicken Salad Blues Musicians : Tim Berne

Fur, David Torn, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : But Not Remote, Swayed, Where'd I Bury That Stupid Clock, Balet Pentru Un Orizont Disparut, Lone Rider, Open Plains, Outsider, Someday Find A Waltz, They Were Then, Now & Again Musicians : David Torn

Adobe Probe, Tim Berne 7, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : Whatever, Spectacle, Adobe Probe Musicians : Tim Berne, Shane Endsley, Chris Speed, Matt Mitchell, Marc Ducret, Michael Formanek, Dan Weiss Recorded live in philadelphia in December 2009.

Cause And Reflect, Hank Roberts / Tim Berne, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : Wobbly, Temporary Sanity, More than Once Dance, Invasion of the Freudian Shrimp, Real Waiting Mire Calliope, Cool Sweat, In Other Words, Showdown!, In Other Worlds Musicians : Hank Roberts, Tim Berne Recorded at Cornell University in July 1998.

Broken Shadows Live, Broken Shadows, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : Humpty Dumpty, Toy Dance, Song For Ché, Body, Walls Bridges, Ecars, C.O.D., Broken Shadows, Dogon A.D. Musicians : Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Reid Anderson, Dave King

1, Matt Mitchell / Tim Berne, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : All the Elasticity, Scanners, Duck, All Socket, Traction Musicians : Matt Mitchell, Tim Berne Recorded live in Brokklyn in June 2010.

Congratulations To You, Sun Of Goldfinger, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : Bat Tears, Coco Tangle, Congratulations To You Musicians : David Torn, Tim Berne, Ches Smith

xForm, Prezens, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : xForm Musicians : David Torn, Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey Recorded live in 2007.

The Cosmos, Hard Cell, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : Van Gundy's Retreat / Traction / Time Laugh / My First Phone / Brokelyn Musicians : Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey

+Size, Science Friction, 2020, Screwgun Tracks : Heavy Mental, Deadpan Musicians : Tim Berne, Herb Robertson, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey, Marc Ducret Recorded live in December 2003.

Sensitive, Hard Cell, 2021, Screwgun Tracks : Heavy Mental, Twisted, The Opener, Thin Ice Musicians : Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Tom Rainey A live recording of the first Hardcell show in December 2000.

Attention Spam, Bloodcount, 2021, Screwgun Tracks : Bro Ball, Snow White, Mr. Johnson's Blues, The Opener, Talk Dirty to Me, IRU.S Musicians : Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Michael Formanek, Jim Black Recorded live in 1997.

5, Bloodcount, 2021, Screwgun Tracks : Yes, Dear, I.R.U.S., Byram's World, Bass Voodoo, Screwgun, PRELUDE: The Brown Dog Meets The Spaceman Musicians : Tim Berne, Chris Speed, Michael Formanek, Jim Black, Marc Ducret Recorded live in 1997.

Tangled, Tim Berne / Nasheet Waits, 2022, Screwgun Tracks : Tangled, Tangled Too Musicians : Tim Berne, Nasheet Waits

Ozmir, Sun Of Goldfinger, 2022, Screwgun Tracks : Sun Of Ozmir, Sun Of UI Musicians : Tim Berne, David Torn, Ches Smith

Decay, Tim Berne, 2022, Screwgun Tracks : Ola's Mood, Imperfect, How Hip Is The Ocean, Surface Noise, The Fantastic Five, A Third Option Musicians : Tim Berne, Ryan Ferreira, Michael Formanek, Ches Smith

Zone One, Tim Berne / Gregg Belisle-Chi, 2022, Screwgun Tracks : Pokey, Sludge, Slippery, Bat Channel, Clandestine, Guitar Star, Yikes Musicians : Tim Berne, Gregg Belisle-Chi

Mystic, The Sunny Four, 2023, Screwgun Tracks : Mystic Musicians : Tim Berne, David Torn, Aurora Nealand, Ches Smith

Disco Tent/Ravens Low and Ready 2, Torn / Rainey / Berne / Dunn, 2024, Screwgun Tracks : xxx Musicians : Tim Berne, David Torn, Trevor Dunn, Tom Rainey

No Tamales On Wednesday, Science Friction, 2024, Screwgun Tracks : Time Laugh, Adobe Probe, Deadbeat Beyonce / SciFry Musicians : Tim Berne, Craig Taborn, Marc Ducret, Tom Rainey Recorded live in 2008.

Lucid/Still, Oceans And, 2024, Screwgun Tracks : Lucid/Still Musicians : Tim Berne, Hank Roberts, Aurora Nealand

Live At The 188 Club, Aurora Nealand, Mark Helias, Tim Berne, 2024, Screwgun Tracks : Cauldron, The Second Meaning, Alight, Young One, Timidly Bodacious, there are Seven Levels, Quodlibet:Encore Musicians : Aurora Nealand, Mark Helias, Tim Berne

Live In Someplace Nice, Tim Berne with Bill Frisell, 2024, Screwgun Tracks : Conversation with Harold, Eef Laat, Dirty Row, Dream Status, Icicles, Homage, Flies / Inside The Brain / The Ancestors Musicians : Tim Berne, Bill Frisell Recorded in 1984.

Snakeoil OK, Snakeoil, 2025, Screwgun Tracks : Lamè #3, Incidentals contact, Lamè #4, Lamè #1, Static, Psalm Musicians : Tim Berne, Oscar Noriega, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith Recorded live in Europe in 2013.

In Lieu, Snakeoil, 2025, Screwgun Tracks : Son of Socket, Spectacle, Sketches of Pain Musicians : Tim Berne, Oscar Noriega, Matt Mitchell, Ches Smith Recorded live in 2012.

Last updated November 2025