This album is a unique "solo" project with guitarist Pat Metheny and a raft of machine controlled musical instruments. Inspired by experimenting with a player piano in his grandfather's basement, which led to a life-long love of technology and its musical applications. It's easy to imagine Metheny in a basement laboratory somewhere preparing his army of musical machines to embark on world...
A live version from Japan in 1995 of “Here To Stay,” from the Pat Matheny Group’s 1994 masterpiece, We Live Here . (The iTunes Store has this essential jazz album too.) [Video]
Pat Metheny, "Orchestrion" (Nonesuch) An inveterate tinkerer who constantly imagines new soundscapes, guitarist Pat Metheny has transformed his childhood passion for his grandfather's player piano into a modern-day version of the orchestrion, a mechanical music machine with an array of orchestral instruments popular nearly a century ago. On "Orchestrion," Metheny has taken the notion
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I have been a Pat Metheny fan for some time now. I remember distinctly hearing him for the first time, odd though it seems, on an edition of the old BBC programme, Tomorrows World, where he was demonstrating the then new guitar synth, by Roland I think. This must have been around 1983 as I got his next album, First Circle when it came out in 1984, guitar synth featuring heavily. Whilst my collection...
Anthony Jackson (Contrabass Guitar); Yiorgos Fakanas (Bass); Frank Gambale (Guitar); Dave Weckl (Drums); Mitch Forman (Keyboards); Takis Paterelis (Alto Sax); Tony Lakatos (Tenor Sax); Antonis Andreou (Trombone); Mihail Iosifov (Trumpet) Note: Includes 16 Page Booklet with photos and other information. WITH INTERSPIRIT, ANTHONY JACKSON MAKES HIS LONG-AWAITED SOLO DEBUT WITH COLLEAGUE YIORGOS FAKANAS....
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We are all feeling the financial pinch! Blue Plate Special is a weekly review of bargain apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Nothing over $.99. Word games and puzzles have become my choice of time killers on the iPhone. Particularly games that involve finding or spelling words. For example, Word Scramble 2 is a solo [...] Related posts: Blue Plate Special: iAssociate Lite For iPhone/Touch Blue Plate...
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) -- NEW YORK — For Pat Metheny, music is nothing without a story. It's a lesson he picked up 40 years ago playing with Kansas City drummer Tommy Ruskin, when the 15-year-old guitarist was beginning his passionate drive to make music a way of a life. Everything's a story. And everything in Metheny's world seems to be connected. There's the interconnected path that leads...
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Not long after Julie Strietelmeier and I reviewed their Kindle & Kindle2 covers, Oberon Design announced that they would be releasing a Kindle DX version. I found this news particularly welcome, because shortly after we completed the review I purchased the DX. Of course, moving to a larger Kindle meant that the case I loved [...] Related posts: The Oberon Design Kindle 2 Case Review Kindle Case...
US jazz guitar legend Pat Metheny chose a small town in northwestern France to launch his new world tour with his latest project, a one-man automated orchestra.
A few weeks ago I posted a video of Pat Metheny announcing his Orchestrion project. The video – and all of the machinery – were quite cool, but what really matters is the final product. Well, Orchestrion was released on January 26th, and I’ve had the chance to give it several listenings and [...] Related posts: Review: Vijay Iyer – Historicity (Jazz CD, 2009) Video Game Soundtrack...
LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots is proud to announce that over 40 of its robotic musical instruments are featured on Pat Metheny's Orchestri... Author: asterbot88 Keywords: LEMUR, musical, robotics, instruments, pat, metheny Added: February 02, 2010 00:00
A decent side project from a Jonas bro, a one-man-band session from Pat Metheny, Corinne Bailey Rae's tragedy-strewn sophomore set and creamy country from one of Sunday's Grammy spotlight acts share our "new
My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in All About Jazz-New York , February 2010: Greg Burk , Many Worlds (482 Music) Jozef Dumoulin & Lidlboj , Trees Are Always Right (BEE Jazz) Ahmad Jamal , A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) Dave King , Indelicate (Sunnyside) Pat Metheny , Orchestrion (Nonesuch) Jeremy Pelt , Men of Honor (HighNote)
Pat Metheny, "Orchestrion" (Nonesuch) An inveterate tinkerer who constantly imagines new soundscapes, guitarist Pat Metheny has transformed his childhood passion for his grandfather's player piano into a modern-day version of the orchestrion, a mechanical music machine with an array of orchestral instruments popular nearly a century ago. On "Orchestrion," Metheny has taken the notion of a solo album...
Download Two for the Money Full Length movie in DVD, Hi-Def, DivX, iPod, psp quality! >>> Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention...
Download Transamerica Full Length movie in DVD, Hi-Def, DivX, iPod, psp quality! >>> This sentimental drama centers on Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman), an overeducated, conservative transsexual woman from Los Angeles who awaits her final sexual reassignment surgery. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she gets a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old boy...
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