Pat Metheny - Watercolors (1977)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Pat Metheny Title Watercolors Length 41:48 Discs: 1 Tracks: 8 Format CD Packaging Jewel Case Label ECM Cat. Number 827409 Style Fusion Rating N/A Recorded 1977  at  Talent Studios, Oslo

Musicians	Credits
Pat Metheny guitars Lyle Mays piano Eberhard Weber bass Dan Gottlieb drums	Producer Manfred Eicher Engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug

Track list

01 Watercolors 06:30 02 Icefire 06:08 03 Oasis 04:05 04 Lakes 04:46 05 River Quay 04:57 06 Suite: I. Florida Greeting Song 02:32 07 Suite: II. Legend Of The Fountain 02:32 08 Sea Song 10:18

Notes

AMG Review (4): Pat Metheny emerges on his second album as an ECM impressionist, generally conforming to the label's overall sound while still asserting his own personality. As the title suggests, there are several mood pieces here that are suspended in the air without rhythmic underpinning, a harbinger for the new age invasion still in the future. Metheny's softly focused, asymmetrical guitar style, with echoes of apparent influences as disparate as Jim Hall, George Benson, Jerry Garcia, and various country guitarists, is quite distinctive even at this early juncture. Metheny's long-running partnership with keyboardist Lyle Mays also begins here, with Mays mostly on acoustic piano but also providing a few mild synthesizer washes. Danny Gottlieb is on drums and ECM regular Eberhard Weber handles the bass. This is essentially the first album by the Pat Metheny Group per se, although the band had yet to find its direction in this somewhat diffuse showing. — Richard S. Ginell