Track Listing
1. Zero Tolerance For Silence (Part 1)
2. Zero Tolerance For Silence (Part 2)
3. Zero Tolerance For Silence (Part 3)
4. Zero Tolerance For Silence (Part 4)
5. Zero Tolerance For Silence (Part 5)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 38 min. | | Producer: | Pat Metheny | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Solo performer: Pat Metheny (guitar).
Recorded at Power Station, New York, New York on December 16, 1992.
For audiences who enjoy Pat Metheny's new age-tinged, Brazilian-flavored jazz, 1994's ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SILENCE is a sonic slap in the face. In a bold move, the popular contemporary guitarist dives headfirst into jarring dissonance and brash distortion for the majority of this solo release. However, despite the harsh tones and textures that Metheny produces here, the underlying brilliance of his musicianship is consistently apparent.
Whether in the surrealist avant-garde of the opening 18-minute improvisation or the softer tones of the closing movement, Metheny perpetually pushes the musical and sonic boundaries into a realm where only a musician of his caliber dare venture. Throughout the five-part piece that constitutes ZERO TOLERANCE, shades of Jimi Hendrix, Sonic Youth, Frank Zappa, and 20th century atonal classical music are all mixed into a unique collage of sound. Listeners should be prepared for an onslaught unlike anything Metheny has produced thus far, save for 1986's SONG X with Ornette Coleman. However, closer listening will reveal that, in the right hands, noise can be as beautiful as church bells.
Editorial Reviews
...it towers as a gut-wrenching triumph of chaos theory...some of the most spectacular guitar abominations ever commited to tape...
Option (08/01/1994)
...After mastering everything from fusion to mass-scale composition, [Metheny] returns to the bare bones of improv....Essentially 40 minutes of screeching guitar solos... - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (04/01/1994)
8 - Excellent - ...a triumph of guitar modernism, a record that will leave many of the current crop of strummers and screamers choking on the dust cloud he leaves behind...
NME (04/30/1994)
...beneath that halo of delay beats a restless heart, a man whose flip side rages like that of a disgruntled postal employee...all of it is raw and rabid and wired, and nothing like what you'd expect from Pat Metheny. It's not pretty, but it feels like progress....
Musician (04/01/1994)
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