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PAT METHENY/TAP: John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol. 20

CD will ship on Friday 5/24! Pat Metheny adds his contribution to John Zorn’s ambitiously expansive Masada Book Two with Tap: The Book of Angels, Volume 20. This album is the first collaboration between the two artists, considered among their generation’s most innovative musicians. Besides his frequent collaborator, drummer Antonio Sanchez, Metheny plays all other instruments—guitars, sitar, tiples, bass, keyboards, orchestrionics, electronics, bandoneón, percussion, flugelhorn, and more—himself.

Track List: The Book of Angels, Volume 20: Tap

1. Mastema
2. Albim
3. Tharsis
4. Sariel
5. Phanuel
6. Hurmiz

Beginning in the 1990s, Zorn wrote 500 songs inspired by traditional Jewish music; they came to be known as two volumes of the Masada Book. He performed the first 200 songs of Book One with the rotating members of the Masada ensemble for a decade before writing Book Two’s 300 tunes in just three months. Over the past eight years, the songs from Book Two have been recorded as volumes of The Book of Angels by a stellar group of musicians, including the Masada Quintet, Masada String Trio, Medeski Martin & Wood, and Marc Ribot.

Zorn says of Metheny’s recording, “Pat is of course a living legend—one of those rare lights in the universe. His incredible facility and dedication, indefatigable energy and focus, imagination, and never-ending curiosity have distinguished him as truly one of the greatest musicians on the planet.” He continues, “Tap is a showcase for Pat’s remarkable imagination, technique, passion, and love for the world. No matter how many times I listen to this recording I am hit with that same sense of exhilaration that hit me the very first time.”

Metheny, who recently won his 20th Grammy Award, adds, “I have admired John Zorn since the late ’70s and have followed his amazing output every step of the way. A few years ago, after contacting me to write some notes for one of his Arcana publications, John and I began an inspired e-mail connection. (As hard as it is to believe, we had never met in person over the years.) I mentioned that I had followed his Book of Angels series from the start and felt like I might be able to contribute something unique to the collection. With his enthusiastic encouragement, he gave me some suggestions as to which tunes were still unrecorded, and I picked the ones that jumped out and spoke to me. Over the next year, in between breaks from the road, I recorded them one by one in my home studio whenever I got a chance.”

Pat Metheny - The Orchestrion Project Double CD

Track Listing:

Improvisation #1
Antonia
Entry Point
Expansion
Improvisation #2
80/81-Broadway Blues
Orchestrion

DISC TWO

Soul Search
Spirit of the Air
Stranger in Town
Sueno Con Mexico
Tell Her You Saw Me
Unity Village

Recorded at a church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, The Orchestrion Project showcases the full evolution of the Orchestrion as documented at the tail end of Pat Metheny’s sprawling 2010 world tour. The two-disc set features all five tunes from Metheny's Orchestrion—“a soaring five-movement suite featuring some of the most intricate music he's ever created" (Boston Globe)—plus eight additional Metheny compositions, which he plays on his phalanx of remarkable, custom-made instruments via solenoid switches and pneumatics. Pre-orders include a limited-edition print signed by Metheny plus an instant download of the album track “Sueño con Mexico.”

TRACK LIST:

1. NEW YEAR 7:37
2. ROOFDOGS 5:33
3. COME AND SEE 8:28
4. THIS BELONGS TO YOU 5:20
5. LEAVING TOWN 6:24
6. INTERVAL WALTZ 11:26
7. SIGNALS (ORCHESTRION SKETCH) 11:26
8. THEN AND NOW 5:57
9. BREAKDEALER 8:34

TO READ PAT'S INTERVIEW ABOUT THE RECORD GO HERE.

Original Release Date: September 12, 2006

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Track Listing:
1. Unrequited
2. Ahmid-6
3. Summer Day
4. Ring of Life
5. Legend
6. Find Me in Your Dreams
7. Say the Brother's Name
8. Bachelor's III
9. Annie's Bittersweet Cake
10. Make Peace

Original Release Date: November 16, 1999

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Track Listing:
1. A Map Of The World
2. Family
3. North
4. Home
5. Sisters
6. Childhood
7. Fall From Grace
8. Memory
9. Gone
10. Flight
11. Alone
12. Outcasts
13. Sunday
14. Discovery
15. Acceptance
16. Realization
17. Soliloquy
18. Night
19. Sunrise
20. Resolution
21. Pictures
22. Patience
23. Transition
24. Reunion
25. Renewal
26. Homecoming
27. Forgiving
28. Holding Us

Original Release Date: June 12, 1990

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Track Listing:
1. Solar
2. Question and Answer
3. H & H
4. Never Too Far Away
5. Law Years
6. Change Of Heart
7. All The Things You Are
8. Old Folks
9. Three Flights Up

Original Release Date: July 20, 1993

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Track Listing:
1. Have You Heard
2. First Circle
3. The Road To You
4. Half Life Of Absolution
5. Last Train Home
6. Better Days Ahead
7. Naked Moon
8. Beat 70
9. Letter From Home
10. Third Wind
11. Solo From 'More Travels'

Original Release Date: October 1981

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Track Listing:
1. Barcarole
2. Are You Going With Me?
3. Au Lait
4. Eighteen
5. Offramp
6. James
7. The Bat Part II

Original Release Date: November 21, 2000

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Track Listing:
Disc 1:

1. Bright Size Life
2. Question and Answer
3. Giant Steps
4. Into The Dream
5. So May It Secretly Begin
6. The Bat
7. All The Things You Are
Disc 2:

1. James
2. Unity Village
3. Soul Cowboy
4. Night Turns Into Day
5. Faith Healer
6. Counting Texas

Original Release Date: January 25, 2005

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Track Listing:
1. The Way Up: Opening Pat Metheny
2. The Way Up: Part One Pat Metheny
3. The Way Up: Part Two Pat Metheny
4. The Way Up: Part Three

Original Release Date: January 25, 1985

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Track Listing:
1. Psalm 121 / Flight Of The Falcon
2. Daulton Lee
3. Chris
4. "The Falcon"
5. This Is Not America
6. Extent Of The Lie
7. The Level Of Deception
8. Capture
9. Epilogue (Psalm 121)

Original Release Date: August 9, 2005

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