Track Listing 1. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls 2. Ozark 3. September Fifteenth - (dedicated to Bill Evans) 4. "It's For You" 5. Estupenda Graca
| Details | | Playing Time: | 43 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Nana Vasconcelos | | Producer: | Manfred Eicher | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes Personnel: Pat Metheny (acoustic & electric 6- & 12-string guitars, bass); Lyle Mays (autoharp, piano, organ, synthesizer); Nana Vasconcelos (vocals, drums, berimbau, percussion). Recorded at Talent Studio, Oslo, Norway in September 1980. Like the echo of a grand landscape, Metheny and Mays create an atmospheric meditation on traveling across the great open expanse of America. By turns introspective and hymn-like, soaring and transcendent, the music resonates with a rural spirit, to which the Brazilian percussion of Nana Vasconcelos brings a more universal feel. Both "It's For You" and the epic title track evoke sonic vistas that touch a nerve with their layered keyboards and guitars. "Ozark" is a dynamic track featuring piano propelled by gentle percussion, while "September Fifteenth" is a quiet and deeply moving dedication to pianist Bill Evans. "Estupenda Graca" is like a gentle prayer sung both as closure, and in anticipation of the travels to come.
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