This is another masterpiece from Pat Metheny, an album brimming with great moments ranging from modern jazz fusion to new age sounds, passing through progressive and ethnic passages.
On this occasion, the American guitarist enlisted a wide array of collaborators, including regulars Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Paul Wertico, Danny Gottlieb, and Nana Vasconcelos, as well as other prominent musicians such as Steve Ferrone, Charlie Haden, Toots Thielemans, and Anthony Jackson, among many others.
Throughout the album, we encounter countless guitar solos and other instrumental pieces, along with moving melodies, passages steeped in ethnic and Eastern influences, all underpinned by Metheny's own majestic guitar work.
Intense emotions like "Rain River", reflective jazz canvases like "Always and Forever", approaches to more progressive jazz like "See The World", world music like "Finding and Believing" or heartbreaking pieces like "Tell Her You Saw Me", complete another of the essential works of one of the geniuses of jazz fusion of the 20th century.
