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Offramp ReviewI have to admit to a bias: I have been listening to Pat Metheny albums since 1977, and I sincerely believe him to be the most important composer/musician in the field of intelligent popular music in the period 1977-2000. For me, this is the PMG's finest album yet, and so it ranks in my all-time Top 10.
This was the album on which Metheny and Mays showcased the Synclavier for the first time. A synthesizer developed by New England Digital, it could be driven by either a guitar or a keyboard controller. From this point onwards, it has often been near-impossible to discern whether it is Lyle or Pat who is playing any particular phrase. On this album, Pat chose to generate trumpet-like sounds, particularly for the opening 'Barcarole' and the anthemic 'Are You Going With Me?'. A friend at the time asked me, "Why didn't he just use a real trumpet?". That friend just didn't understand the flexibility of the synclavier.
For me, the whole album is magnificent. 'James' is a wonderfully uplifting, perfect composition, in which not a note is wasted. But the two absolute stand-out tracks are 'Are You Going With Me?' and the under-rated 'Au Lait'.
'Are You Going With Me?' was a concert highlight for years, and would not be out of place on a rock album. Or a slow latin dance album. There is some wonderful wailing guitar towards the end of the tune, and I've often thought that this is the track I'd want played at my funeral. The downside of this idea is that I wouldn't want my partner to be thinking 'Am I going with him?' as my coffin glided past on the conveyor belt towards the flames.
I read in a Metheny interview around the release of the next live album ('Travels'), that Pat felt the live version of this song was very special indeed, implying that it was better than the studio version. I don't feel one is better than the other -- they have very different guitar solos, but they are both exceptional.
I simply adore 'Au Lait' because it instantly puts images in my mind of lazy summer days. I also somehow associate the tune with the music that Bacharach composed for the Bolivian bank-raid interludes in 'Butch Cassidy'. Vasconcelos brought an ethnic integrity to the PMG that his replacements have never been able to touch. His vocal and percussive contributions particularly on this track are outstanding.
This is an album that no lover of intelligent, optimistic, modern music should be without.Offramp OverviewJapanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.--This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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