Pat Metheny-From This Place-CD-FLAC-2020-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : Pat Metheny                                       
   Album       : From This Place                                   
    Label       : Nonesuch Records                                   
    Genre       : Jazz                                               
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2020-02-21                                         
   Quality     : 747 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 439.61 MB                                          
     Time        : 76:33 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/from-this-place 
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  1.  America Undefined                                             13:22 
  2.  Wide And Far                                                   8:26 
  3.  You Are                                                        6:13 
  4.  Same River                                                     6:43 
  5.  Pathmaker                                                      8:19 
  6.  The Past In Us                                                 6:23 
  7.  Everything Explained                                           6:52 
  8.  From This Place                                                4:40 
  9.  Sixty-Six                                                      9:38 
  10. Love May Take A While                                          5:57 
     During the late 2010s, guitarist and composer Pat Metheny toured   
     a new quartet featuring British piano prodigy Gwilym Simcock,      
     Malaysian-Australian bassist Linda May Han Oh, and veteran         
     Mexican-American drummer Antonio Sanchez. This group learned the   
     guitarist's catalog and toured it globally, gelling and maturing   
     before entering the studio for From This Place, the first new      
     studio material from Metheny since 2014. Metheny's group is aided  
     by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joel McNeely.     
     The orchestral charts were handled by Alan Broadbent and Gil       
     Goldstein, who developed them after the players' recorded          
     interactions so as not to muddy the live playing and improvising.  
     Tensions exist throughout: There are musical and sonic references  
     to storms (literal and metaphorical), the environment, American    
     political life, and trying emotional, romantic, and economic       
     times. Metheny and the band balance them with hope, sensitivity,   
     steely determination, and vulnerability.                           
     From This Place is lush, airy, elegant, and graceful, framed by    
     adventurous harmonics, dark drama, and illuminating melodic        
     invention. At over 13 minutes, opener "America Undefined" is more  
     a suite than a composition. Introduced by Sanchez's whispering     
     cymbals, a sonorous cello, ambient textures, and Simcock's piano,  
     Metheny's languid entrance becomes an incantation that, just a     
     few minutes later, introduces fleet post-bop propelled by Han Oh   
     and Sanchez. Pianist and guitarist complement each other with      
     fills, accents, and counter melodies; they eventually commingle    
     and add sweeping colors through their interplay, as an echoing     
     train and a swelling orchestra make the drama transcendent. By     
     contrast, "Wide and Far" is a bluesy groover that nods to          
     Metheny's first great jazz influence, Wes Montgomery, while        
     Simcock melds Horace Silver's funky hard bop to nearly pastoral    
     expressionism. The tune's orchestration recalls Don Sebesky's on   
     The Rape of El Morro, one of the CTI dates that remains important  
     to Metheny. "You Are" commences as a slow, crystalline ballad      
     stated impressionistically by piano, guitar, and bass with only    
     brushed percussion accents. Halfway through, Sanchez erupts, a     
     storm darkens from the orchestra and the entire band crashes in    
     as wordless vocals hover like sirens in the backdrop. The tune     
     swells and simmers, then soars thanks to Sanchez's thunderous      
     rolls and fills. "Pathmaker" sums up the questions posed by        
     "American Undefined." It charts a way through some of the murky    
     darkness to revel in its intricate post-bop before Sanchez and     
     Metheny create a second dialogue with sweeping harmonies before    
     Simcock's knotty solo crisscrosses tradition with modernism.       
     Metheny calms it all halfway, and begins to assemble another       
     musical narrative in his solo break. Guest Gregoire Maret adds a   
     tender, high-lonesome harmonica to the gorgeous ballad "The Past   
     Is in Us." Metheny composed the title track's melody in 2016, the  
     morning after Donald Trump's election. Alison Riley's poignant     
     lyrics are delivered by her partner MeShell Ndegeocello. Metheny   
     explained that they "captured exactly the feeling of that tragic  
     moment while reaffirming the hope of better days ahead". From     
     This Place integrates and illuminates most of Metheny's musical    
     personas. His compositions allow this stellar collective to roam   
     through them with their many strengths. They ultimately provide    
     fans an abundance of listening pleasure. Even in a catalog filled  
     with so many gems, From This Place shines brightly.                

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