A Map of the World

• Artist: Pat Metheny
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• Release Date: 1999
• Type: Soundtrack
• Genre: Jazz

Review

Though it is billed as a Pat Metheny album, A Map of the World also contains the small-print cover statement "music from and inspired by the motion picture," and indeed, it is the soundtrack to a film called A Map of the World. Metheny gets the nod because he performs on the album as well as having composed the music, and because in addition to featuring all the music from the film, it contains, by his count, "an additional 25 minutes or so of various expansions, improvisations, and treatments based on either the actual thematic materials, or the implied sonic and harmonic language that was generated by the score." Though it contains 28 music cues, some of them lasting less than a minute, it can be enjoyed as an album of instrumental acoustic guitar music with orchestral accompaniment. Except, perhaps, for one-minute-and-39 seconds of "Sunday," which suddenly introduces a trip-hop beat, this is a disc that would fit right in on Windham Hill Records alongside anything by Will Ackerman. Fans of Metheny's fusion jazz efforts might want to skip it, but A Map of the World is an excellent new age album. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
A Map of the World	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(5:38)
Family	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(2:09)
North	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(4:19)
Home	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(:42)
Sisters	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(4:08)
Childhood	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:26)
Fall from Grace	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(2:37)
Memory	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(:55)
Gone	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(6:31)
Flight	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(:54)
Alone	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:22)
Outcasts	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:30)
Sunday	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:38)
Discovery	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(2:34)
Acceptance	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:15)
Realization	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:23)
Solilquy	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(2:52)
Night	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(2:00)
Sunrise	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(:51)
Resolution	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(3:46)
Pictures	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(:21)
Patience	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:22)
Transition	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(:52)
Reunion	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:17)
Renwal	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(1:53)
Homecoming	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(3:25)
Forgiving	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(4:36)
Holding Us	Pat Metheny	Pat Metheny	(4:09)

Credits

Gil Goldstein (Conductor), Gil Goldstein (Orchestration), Pat Metheny (Arranger), Pat Metheny (Producer), Rob Eaton (Engineer), Rob Eaton (Mixing), Steve Rodby (Producer)

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