PAT METHENY — New Chautauqua (review)

PAT METHENY — New Chautauqua album cover Album · 1979 · Post-Fusion Contemporary Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
FunkFreak75
My first Pat Metheny acquisition. I was a bit thrown by the strange sound palette of Pat's solo work--sometimes layers of treated guitars, acoustic and, I thought, electric. There were also many melodies and structures that were strange to me, his tone so delicate and, I think I felt, folk-country-western, even, sometimes, quite angular and unmelodic. It took a long time for me to become familiar with this music--to eventually "like" it, much less understand it, but something about it kept me coming back, kept me trying--trying to "get inside" the music. Now I listen to it 45 years on and I don't have any issues: I like it all. It's all, of course, very familiar to me now.

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