Pat Metheny - Secret Story

Secret Story es la consumación de la visión musical de Pat Metheny, donde confluyen jazz, folk, ritmos de diversas latitudes (en particular brasileros), incluyendo en este álbum la adaptación de un himno camboyano (Above the Treetops).

Extraña que no sea un proyecto junto a su popular agrupación, el Pat Metheny Group, sino un esfuerzo en solitario.

Metheny toca guitarras, bajo, piano, teclados, y se acompaña de una pléyade de exquisitos intérpretes (vrg., Toots Thielemans aportando un memorable solo de harmónica en la entrañable balada Always and Forever; Mark Ledford su hermosa voz en la exótica Finding and Believing, Gil Goldstein un arrabalero acordeón en la exquisita Antonia).

Las composiciones son bellísimas: unas, representativas del temprano Pat Metheny Group, descriptivas de paisajes rurales, contagian optimismo, esperanza, júbilo, regocijo (Facing West, The Longest Summer); otras, animadas de un espíritu trashumante, nos invitan a recorrer locaciones de ensueño a través del mundo (Above The Treetops, Finding and Believing, See The World); las hay leves, suaves, delicadas (Rain River); con un cierto matiz naïf (As a Flower Blossoms (I Am Running to You)); mientras que algunas son simplemente conmovedoras (Always and Forever, Antonia, The Truth Will Always Be).

Secret Story es el relato de una gesta, de una épica fantástica, reseñada en un diario de viaje, una bitácora de una aventura, donde Metheny parece dispuesto a contar sus vivencias, algo íntimo, profundo, experiencias que entrañan un proceso vital de maduración, individual y creativo.

El clímax tiene lugar en The Truth Will Always Be, una composición que se desarrolla in crescendo hasta el típico solo de guitarra sintetizada monumental, dramático, apoteósico, explosivo, catártico.

Cerca del final del itinerario, es el momento de una introspectiva, evocativa Tell Her You Saw Me; y a modo de epílogo, convenientemente orquestal, Not To Be Forgotten (Our Final Our).

Una música llena de lirismo, poesía, sensibilidad, magia.

Una auténtica travesía a través de las emociones.*****

1.Above The Treetops 2:44

(Metheny)

Based on the traditional Cambodian

hymn "Buong Suong"

Pat (acoustic guitar, all synths)

Charlie Haden (acoustic bass)

Nana Vasconcelos (perc.)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

members of the Pinpeat Orchestra

of the Royal Ballet and the Choir of

the Cambodian Royal Palace (voices)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

transcription of Pat's string

arrangement by Mike Townend

2.Facing West 5:59

(Metheny)

Pat (elec. basses, all synths, keyboards,

acoustic guitars, elec. guitar)

Lyle Mays (acoustic piano)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

3.Cathedral In A Suitcase 4:52

(Metheny)

Pat (guitar synth, all synths, keyboards,

keyboard bass, elec. perc., elec. guitar)

Steve Ferrone (drums)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

Mark Ledford (voice)

Danny Gottlieb (cymbal roll)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

4.Finding And Believing 9:57

(Metheny)

Pat (all synths, elec. perc., elec. guitars,

elec. sitars, acoustic guitar, piano)

Steve Ferrone (drums, pt 1)

Will Lee (elec. bass, pt 1)

Mark Ledford (voices)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

Nana Vasconcelos (perc.)

Steve Rodby (acoustic bass, pt 3)

Paul Wertico (drums, pt 3)

Gil Goldstein (accordion)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

5.The Longest Summer 6:32

(Metheny)

Pat (acoustic piano, acoustic guitar,

guitar synth)

Steve Rodby (acoustic bass)

Paul Wertico (drums, pt 1)

Steve Ferrone (drums, pt 2)

Nana Vasconcelos (perc.)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

6.Sunlight 3:53

(Metheny)

Pat (all synths, keyboards, elec.

piano, acoustic guitars, elec. guitar)

Lyle Mays (acoustic piano)

Will Lee (elec. bass)

Steve Rodby (acoustic bass and elec. bass)

Sammy Merendino (drums)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

(Metheny)

7.Rain River 7:09

(Metheny)

Pat (elec. sitar, elec. guitar, all synths,

keyboards, elec. perc.)

Gil Goldstein (acoustic piano)

Steve Rodby (acoustic bass)

Paul Wertico (drums)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

Andy Findon (flute)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

8.Always And Forever 5:25

(Metheny)

Pat (acoustic guitar, elec. piano, synths)

Charlie Haden (acoustic bass)

Paul Wertico (drums)

Toots Thielemans (harmonica)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

9.See The World 4:48

(Metheny)

Pat (acoustic guitar, elec. piano, all synths)

Steve Rodby (acoustic bass)

Paul Wertico (drums)

Gil Goldstein (acoustic piano)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

Michael Mossman, Mike Metheny

Ryan Kisor (trumpet, flug.)

Tom Malone (trombone)

Dave Taylor (bass trombone)

Dave Bargeron (trombone, tuba)

John Clark (french horn)

Anthony Jackson (interlude

contrabass guitar)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

Horn arrangements by Pat, transcribed

and conducted Gil Goldstein

10.As A Flower Blossoms (I Am Running To You) 1:53

(Metheny/Yano)

Pat (piano, all synths, pikasso guitar)

Nana Vasconcelos (perc.)

Akiko Yano (voice, lyrics)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

11.Antonia 6:11

(Metheny)

Pat (synclavier "accordion",

all keyboards, piano, elec. guitar)

Steve Rodby (acoustic bass)

Paul Wertico (drums)

Nana Vasconcelos (perc., voice)

Toots Thielemans (harmonica)

Danny Gottlieb (cymbal roll)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

12.The Truth Will Always Be 9:10

(Metheny)

Pat (all synths, keyboards, elec. perc.,

guitar synth)

Nana Vasconcelos (perc.)

Will Lee (elec. bass)

Steve Ferrone (drums)

Armando Marçal (perc.)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

13.Tell Her You Saw Me 5:07

(Metheny)

Pat (guitar, synths)

Shaila Kanga (harp)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

14.Not To Be Forgotten (Our Final Hour) 2:20

(Metheny)

members of the London Orchestra

conducted by Jeremy Lubbock

Pat Metheny (Acoustic and

Electric Guitars, Piano,

Keyboards, Electric Bass,

etc.) with the London

Orchestra Conducted by

Jeremy Lubbock and

other musicians

All Compositions and Arrangements by Pat Metheny

Orchestral Arrangements by Jeremy Lubbock (except*)

Recorded Fall-Winter 91-92 at Power Station, NYC.

Additional Recording at EMI-Abbey Road Studio,

London. Additional Recording in Cambridge, MA;

Willow, NY and Leblon, RJ

Geffen GEFD-24468 (1992)