Pat Metheny

• new packaging: sleeve packs in slipcases

If you’ve ever desired a Pat Metheny Group greatest hits album, then Travels is for you.

Compiled from the group’s touring activities in 1982, this double set is a must-have. From the glittering lotus of melody that is “San Lorenzo” to the even more effusive “Phase Dance,” the requisite classics are all here.

We also get a curtailed, though no less epic, version of “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls,” which here draws out like a long cinematic fade and throws the windows open wide to the band’s boggling sonic purview. And one can hardly help but swoon from the dizzying heights reached by this live version of “Are You Going With Me?” Here the studio version seems but a memory on the path to glory, and finds exuberant life in what is perhaps Metheny’s best solo on record. An absolute affirmation.

PERSONNEL:

• Pat Metheny _ (guitar, guitar synthesizer)
• Lyle Mays - (piano, synthesizer, organ, autoharp, synclavier)
• Steve Rodby - (acoustic bass, electric bass, bass synthesizer
• Dan Gottlieb - (drums)
• Nana Vasconcelos - (percussion, voice, berimbau)

Recorded July, October, and November 1982

TRACKS:

• CD ONE:
• 01. Are You Going With Me?
• 02. The Fields, The Sky
• 03. Goodbye
• 04. Phase Dance
• 05. Straight On Red
• 06. Farmer's Trust

• CD TWO:
• 01. Extradition
• 02. Goin' Ahead / As Falls Wichita, So Falls
• 03. Travels
• 04. Song For Bilbao
• 05. San Lorenzo