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Pat Metheny er en af denne verdens mest interessante guitarister. Dét har han været i et par årtier, og hans nye album ændrer intet ved det forhold. Pat Metheny er og blive... Read more

The forces of nature, to which we know, all act in balance and in accordance to one another. Seasons change and adaptations occur to maintain equilibrium, and sometimes nature produces extraordina... Read more

The jazz guitar meisterbecomes a one-man band… Even though this is a solo album in the truest sense – no other musicians appear alongside Metheny – it’s also a solo album unlike any other. It is, ... Read more

In a video posted on Pat Metheny’s website (patmetheny.com), the eternally youthful contemporary-jazz guitarist demonstrates his new Orchestrion project: a hyperwired system that makes him a one-ma... Read more

Als kind was hij al gefascineerd door de pianola van zijn opa. Later verdiepte hij zich in zelfspelende orchestrions van begin 1900. Ingenieurs hielpen jazzgitarist Pat Metheny de afgelopen jaren m... Read more

The “orchestrion” is a Rube Goldberg-like contraption (named for 19th-century mechanical orchestras) that empowers Metheny in one-man-band format to trigger a variety of percussion and other instru... Read more

Manche Dinge sind schwer in Worte zu fassen - und manche sind gar noch schwerer in Worte zu fassen. In die letztere Kategorie fällt wohl, nach eigenen Worten, auch das neueste Projekt von Pat Methe... Read more

Omslaget, med Pat Metheny omgiven av en massa vackra instrument i ett vackert rum, är fantastiskt. Texten i cd-häftet, som förklarar bakgrunden till Methenys märkliga musikprojekt med mekaniskt sjä... Read more

Could this be the audio equivalent of Avatar? The guitarist’s latest project — using computerised, player piano-style gadgetry to control an entire bank of acoustic instruments, not to ... Read more

fThe intuitive jazz improviser, the ­pop-song tunesmith and the hardware geek have always lived side by side in Pat Metheny. His most commercially successful ventures have peppered Latin, rock and... Read more