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Offramp by: Pat Metheny Group List Price: $17.98 CD-Charts Price: $13.99 You Save: $3.99 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042281713828 Label: Ecm Records Manufacturer: Ecm Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Ecm Records Release Date: November 16, 1999 Studio: Ecm Records Sales Rank: 12157 MPN: 817138 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008. Amazon.com: This 1982 recording by the Pat Metheny Group represented a crossroads for the guitarist, a creative expansion from his original concept in terms of acoustic and electric instrumentation, folksy roots material and modern jazz influences, American and third world sources. Having thus marked out the territory for a decade's worth of experimentation and growth, the Metheny Group cemented its standing on the cutting edge of contemporary jazz with Offramp. Lyle Mays' harmonica-like synth theme, Metheny's soaring, vocalized synth-guitar lead, some rich orchestral touches, and an easygoing blend of backbeat and chord changes made "Are You Going with Me?" one of Metheny's most enduring arrangements. Still, for every gentle, alluring set piece, such as the tangolike "Au Lait" or the rural vistas of "James," there was a visceral, emotive free-for-all like the title track, where Metheny unleashed wild, wailing synth guitar elisions over a loose, abstract pulse--anticipating the energy of the guitarist's collaboration with free jazz guru Ornette Coleman some four years hence on Song X. --Chip Stern Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Blissful even after 20 yearsI bought this album on vinyl when it came out at the ripe old age of 14 because my guitar teacher told me to. I listened to it the whole way through and hated it. Where is the guitar, I thought? The title track was a cacophony I didn't understand and the rest sounded like Muzak. So I shelved it and bought a few other, older Metheny albums and finally got back to it three years later. My ears had matured in that time and was surprised to discover what a fantastic album it was, now one of my favorite albums of all time. I love buying an album that you still love with all your heart even though you have heard it a thousand times. To me that means it appeals to the mind as well as the ear. Buy this album and force yourself ... Read More: Rating:  - OH SO BORING!!!!I find this album, cd or whatever you want to call it pretty boring. I mean Metheny is obviously a master, but if your expecting anything comparable to bright size life you'll be disappointed. Imagine Kenny G with a guitar synth and some cool wind noises behind it. I'm sorry if I just don't get it, but I don't. Rating: - Unfinished cacophony...This is a favorite of mine. I got into Metheny in high school, and still love his music. He's always been underrated as a jazz artist, which I find disappointing. His albums sold decently, but he never achieved crossover success. Anyway, I love this whole album, but I love the song Au Lait the most. It's etheral, moving, extremely haunting, like Metheny's best work. It reminds me a lot of the As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls album. The title track is magnificent, a cacophony of free jazz and new age aesthetics. I didn't know what free jazz was when I listened to it, but the title track is totally free jazzish. Metheny must have been hanging around Ornette Coleman at this time (he eventually made an album with Ornette called ... Read More: Rating: - Perfect TurnThanks to their peerless creativity and dedication to performance, the Pat Metheny Group never ceases to carve out a new, exciting, and captivating angle to their music. Most of the time, it's like witnessing Michelangelo carving out a new angle in the creation of the Statue of David. The most essential angle was carved in New York City in 1981. When I first listened to "Offramp", I enjoyed it, but I didn't find it groundbreaking. Granted, the only records I had heard previous to it was "The Road To You", a fantastic live album by the Group and one of my favorites of theirs to this day, and "Imaginary Day", a broad and bold escape to another world. But I was still young and unaware, a 12-year-old kid who was looking for something ... Read More: Rating:  - Will the guitarist please stand up???Pat Metheny is a great player. He is a great GUITAR player. I don't understand why he feels the need to hide behind the "guitar synth" mask so much of the time. His playing on "Offramp" is incredible, his writing collaboration with Lyle Mays is great and the ensemble is excellent. I just don't understand why it took me until the third cut on the album to hear an instrument that sounded like a guitar instead of a synthesizer playing in the style of a guitarist (or maybe it was a guitarist trying to sound like a synthesizer, I couldn't tell.) Normally, I don't have a problem with an artist trying to achieve a sound that is outside of the norm. The problem I have with Metheny's guitar synth is that it doesn't really contribute to the music ... Read More: |
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