It's been a while since he had a record, three years since The Unity Sessions and Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny, but here look Pat Metheny is back and heralding the release of his next album listen to the 13-minute plus 'America Undefined' drawn From This Place which is to be released on 21 February, something of a ''magic date'' on the calendar, 21.02.20 or 02.21.20 if you prefer.
With a lush, romantic, and yet decidedly pensive feel, the absorbing track was composed by Metheny and arranged by the guitarist and his pianist Gwilym Simcock brandishing an orchestral arrangement by Gil Goldstein.
Personnel on the track: Pat Metheny, guitars, keyboards, sound design; Antonio Sanchez, drums; Gwilym Simcock, piano; Linda May Han Oh, bass; Luis Conte, percussion with the Hollywood Studio Symphony conducted by Joel McNeely.
The album has ten compositions by Metheny. Album guests include Meshell Ndegeocello (vocals) and Grégoire Maret (harmonica).
Nonesuch quote Metheny: ''From This Place… is a kind of musical culmination, reflecting a wide range of expressions that have interested me over the years, scaled across a large canvas, presented in a way that offers the kind of opportunities for communication that can only be earned with a group of musicians who have spent hundreds of nights together on the bandstand."
Other track titles are: 'Wide and Far,' 'You Are,' 'Same River,' 'Pathmaker,' 'The Past in Us,' 'Everything Explained,' 'From This Place,' 'Sixty-Six,' and 'Love May Take Awhile.'
Update 5/12/19: 'You Are' featuring an orchestral arrangement by Alan Broadbent is above.
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