Dream Box

The sound is big without being loud (unless you dial up the volume beyond normal settings), and in a sense orchestral too, since with Pat Metheny all roads lead back to the Pat Metheny Group.... — Jazzwise, September 2023 More…

Release Date: 16th Jun 2023
Catalogue No: 5053889169
Label: BMG

Side 1

1. The Waves Are Not The Ocean (5:36)

2. From The Mountains (8:17)

Side 2

1. Ole & Gard (6:23)

2. Trust Your Angels (5:21)

3. Never Was Love (5:55)

Side 3

1. I Fall In Love Too Easily (5:06)

2. PC Of Belgium (4:57)

3. Morning Of The Carnival (6:39)

Side 4

1. Clouds Can't Change The Sky (7:18)

2. Blue In Green (3:26)

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20-time Grammy winner Pat Metheny returns with his most personal record to date 'Dream Box' in 2023. 'Dream Box is an unusual recording for me', says Pat. 'A compilation of tracks recorded across a few years. While on tour this past year (2022), I discovered a forgotten folder on my drive. I often make quick recordings of things; a new tune, a new (or old) guitar, a standard tune, or just to try something out. I have a folder where I stash these things, truthfully, usually never to be heard again. The only time I listen to my own stuff is while on the road. I often say I live on output, with little or no time for input. That changes on tour, where suddenly there seems to be more free hours in the day, albeit on a bus or in some far-flung hotel room. Occasionally, those moments offer a chance to rummage around in the files to see if anything interesting may lie there. This past year was a particularly busy travel year for me, with about 160 performances worldwide. In the course of all that travel, I found myself returning to that discovered folder again and again. From those listening sessions, I was surprised to find this program emerging as a coherent whole. I found that I had unintentionally gotten to a destination I had not planned for, and I am excited to share what I found there. These nine tracks were my favorites and added up to something unique for me. I never played anything more than once. These are really moments in time, and in fact, I have almost no memory of having recorded most of them. They just kind of showed up'.

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September 2023

The sound is big without being loud (unless you dial up the volume beyond normal settings), and in a sense orchestral too, since with Pat Metheny all roads lead back to the Pat Metheny Group. He sees the bigger picture, not a broad canvas, but in terms of the inner detail necessary to realise the music’s full potential.

Metheny has always been interested in the possibilities of technology […] Here again he is clear as the the parts he wants to embrace and the aspects that simply have no interest for him at all in his permanent striving to be a better musician.

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