{"title":"Pat Metheny","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePat Metheny arrived fully formed. His 1976 ECM debut, \"Bright Size Life\", recorded when he was 21 with Jaco Pastorius on bass and Bob Moses on drums, announced a guitarist with a sound that was immediately his own: wide open, harmonically rich, rooted in the American Midwest rather than the urban bop tradition. He had come through Gary Burton's quartet and a stint teaching at Berklee before any of this, but none of that institutional background made him cautious. The ECM years that followed produced some of his most searching work, including the double album \"80\/81\" (1980), which brought together Michael Brecker, Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman and Jack DeJohnette in a post-bop session that remains one of the label's finest. His Pat Metheny Group records, beginning with the self-titled 1978 debut, took things somewhere else entirely: Latin rhythms, synthesisers, a euphoric melodicism that sold well and still holds up. Then came \"Song X\" in 1986, recorded with Ornette Coleman, which confounded everyone who thought they had him figured out. ECM pressings from this period are the core of what you'll find here, alongside later Geffen and Nonesuch material.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pat-metheny-lyle-mays-as-falls-wichita-so-falls-wichita-falls-1984-japanese-ecm-vinyl-lp","title":"Pat Metheny \u0026 Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1984 Japanese ECM Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eVinyl\u003c\/b\u003e: EX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSleeve\u003c\/b\u003e: VG+\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eObi:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eNone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur grading system explained \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/dpbg4u-d1.myshopify.com\/pages\/secondhand-grading-guide\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ehere\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto is of the actual item.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePat Metheny \u0026amp; Lyle Mays - \u003cem\u003eAs Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1984 Japanese ECM Records Reissue (25MJ 3335, Polydor K.K.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title track takes up all of side A and starts with what sounds like a recording made in a crowd. Voices, ambient noise, Vasconcelos chanting over the top. From there, Lyle Mays brings in slow-building synthesiser washes (he was working with an Oberheim Four Voice and Prophet at the time) while Metheny layers acoustic and electric guitar lines over the top, sometimes playing bass too. The piece shifts through distinct sections over its 20 minutes, moving from ambient drift to a shimmering autoharp-driven passage that lands somewhere between impressionism and something closer to minimalism. Side B covers different ground entirely. \"Ozark\" is compact and melodic. \"September Fifteenth,\" dedicated to Bill Evans, opens with Metheny's acoustic guitar inside Mays's synth pads before Mays switches to piano for a passage of quiet interplay that echoes the intimacy Evans spent his career refining. \"It's For You\" builds from sparse to full-band intensity. \"Estupenda Graça\" closes the album in under three minutes, a nod to Vasconcelos's Brazilian roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMetheny and Mays had rehearsed the album extensively before flying to Oslo, working out structures that left room for improvisation and multi-track overdubbing within planned frameworks. The result is more composed than it might first sound, and the studio plays a bigger role than on most ECM dates. This is the 1984 Japanese reissue on ECM Records, catalogue number 25MJ 3335, part of the ECM Collection 50 series manufactured by Polydor K.K.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECM Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43656391557179,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_7312.jpg?v=1781524919"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/pat-metheny.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}