WE LIVE HERE (PAT METHENY GROUP)

Pat Metheny's We Live Here is a strange album. With a collection of styles: lounge jazz, funk, a tad of the ethnic influence he has carried with him since Secret Story, and Metheny's personal style, pulled together with a progressive overtone. Unfortunately, the result isn't as charming and compel ... (read more)

Report this review (#134175) | Posted by Shakespeare | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 | Review Permanlink

This one is much more than Jazz. It's different.. Here, there are some funk influence, and also something of 80's and 90's pop music. Drums (acoustic and electronic) are cyclic, recurrent. Keyboards are always behind with full chords (in complex harmonies) or, often ahead playing melodies. Pat's ... (read more)

Report this review (#127813) | Posted by Marcos | Saturday, July 07, 2007 | Review Permanlink

The epitome of jazz fusion, with a progressive tone throughout. I remember hearing this for the fist time. It was like nothing I had ever heard before. "The girls next door" is a kind of urban shuffle. Tracks such as "To the end of the world" and "Episode d'Azur" can be spun forever without ge ... (read more)

Report this review (#77954) | Posted by ProgFusion | Friday, May 12, 2006 | Review Permanlink

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