Pat Metheny

• new packaging: sleeve packs in slipcases

Listening to any Pat Metheny album for the first time is like finding a long-forgotten photograph, interleaved in a dusty book marked to the brim with the marginalia of a past life. And just when one thinks that feeling might dull over time, Metheny whittles from the vast block of wood that is his genius a masterpiece like As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, on and through which the Missouri-born guitarist begins to expand his reach to “global” proportions. His Instrument—with a capital “I”—and his playing of it define supernovas of emotional distance in the most compact lines. From these he unspools spectrums upon spectrums.

PERSONNEL:

• Pat Metheny - (electric & acoustic six & twelve string guitars, bass)
• Lyle Mays - (piano, synthesizer, organ, auto harp)
• Nana Vasconcelos - (berimbau, percussion, drums, vocals)

TRACKS:

• 01. As Falls Wichata, So Falls Wichata Falls
• 02. Ozark
• 03. September Fifteenth
• 04. Its For You
• 05. Estupenda Graça