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Artist: Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-02-29
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
  1. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
  2. Ozark
  3. September Fifteenth - (dedicated to Bill Evans)
  4. "It's For You"
  5. Estupenda Graca

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Free Music Review: Mesmerizing stuff indeed
Hit: 5 Stars

This classic from 1981 is one of my favourites from the Metheny/Mays partnership and is a must-have for any fan of their music. It's mesmerizing stuff indeed.

The title track is very experimental even by today's standards let alone back then and as one might predict, it got (and still gets) very mixed reviews. Personally, I love it though and, according to Metheny himself in a magazine article, many of the ideas employed on the Pat Metheny Group's 2005 album The Way Up actually had their genesis on this recording 24 years earlier! I find that amazing.

The album speaks to me in so many different ways and though I've had it on vinyl since 1987 (the brilliant title track takes up the whole of side one!), I just had to get the CD because this is the kind of music I love playing in the car while driving late at night. "September Fifteenth", a dedication to Bill Evans and ""It's For You"" are also personal favourites as is the closing vocal track, "Estupenda Gra?a", sung by Nana Vasconcelos, whose vocals can also be heard in other places on the album. At 2mins 41secs it's much too short, though I have read somewhere that it was expanded on during a subsequent live tour that included the singer & percussionist in its lineup. Vasconcelos also plays berimbau, percussion and drums on this recording. Lyle Mays plays piano, synthesizer, organ and autoharp and Pat Metheny plays electric & acoustic 6 & 12 string guitars and bass.

These dudes are simply the best. They've had me enthralled for well over 20 years now and I applaud them for refusing to adhere to the narrow definitions of jazz that many would prefer them to.

As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls Poster

Guitarist Pat Metheny and his longtime keyboard collaborator/alter ego Lyle Mays saw in their rural American roots a mystical connection to an entire world of sounds, and with As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls, they began the process of fashioning an idiomatic folk expression all their own. With the help of master percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, they create a whistlestop tour of musical outposts on the extended title track that is at once gothic and atmospheric in the manner of Weather Report, bucolic and harmonious like the Byrds--with echoes of small towns, strip malls, and lonely railyards, over expanses of wide-open space that reflect their familial origins and countless miles wandering the interstate on a string of college-town one-nighters. In the four square major modes of "Ozark" and "It's for You" you can hear the beige tinge of the American experience that melded with African American music to give the U.S. its musical depth and breadth, while "September Fifteenth" is a prayerful, ruminative reflection on the spirit of their romantic forebear, pianist Bill Evans. --Chip Stern

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