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Pat Metheny Group - First Circle (1984)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 17 Apr 2023 19:04:32

First Circle is a Grammy Award winning album by Pat Metheny Group released in 1984. On the album Pat Metheny is joined by Lyle Mays on piano and keyboards, Steve Rodby on bass, drummer Paul Wertico and vocalist and percussionist Pedro Aznar. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1985. Pat Metheny has remarked that this is an important album in the Group's history for a number of reasons, among them being that the Group's core lineup on the album remained unchanged for over 15 years and it was the final Group album released on the ECM record label.

In First Circle, the Pat Metheny Group settled into a lineup that lasted for quite a while – with Metheny, keyboardist Lyle Mays, bassist Steve Rodby, and new drummer Paul Wertico forming the core quartet. The ever-restless Metheny also mixes up the music, not quite leaving the Brazilian glide behind but coming up with some fascinating permutations always affixed with his personal stamp. "Forward March," the album opener, is a bizarre parody full of detuned instruments and half-cocked trumpet from Mays; one wonders if this was directed at a few silly skirmishes of the day (Grenada? the Falklands?). "The First Circle" has Brazilian elements, but now in the service of a grander architectural context, while nothing could be simpler and yet more sophisticated than the delicate ballad "If I Could." "End of the Game" might be the best track on the record, equipped with a beautiful pop-flavored set of tunes and harmonies, with a rock beat fused to the floating ambience of South America as personified by the new Argentine percussionist/vocalist Pedro Aznar. "Praise," the closer, is an out-and-out rock tune, an affirmative flip side of "Forward March" and the last of a series of delightful surprises.

Review by Richard S. Ginell, Allmusic.com

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Pat Metheny – guitar, Synclavier guitar, sitar, slide guitar, acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar
Lyle Mays – piano, synthesizers, Oberheim, agogô bells, organ, trumpet
Steve Rodby – acoustic and electric bass, bass drum
Paul Wertico – drums, field drum, cymbal
Pedro Aznar – glockenspiel, voice, bells, acoustic guitar,
percussion, whistle, guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar

Tracklist:

01. Forward March (02:49)
02. Yolanda, You Learn (04:49)
03. The First Circle (09:16)
04. If I Could (07:01)
05. Tell It All (07:59)
06. End Of The Game (08:02)
07. Mas Alla (Beyond) (05:40)
08. Praise (04:18)

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Pat Metheny Group / First Circle (823 342-2)

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