Pat Metheny Group - The Falcon And The Snowman - 1985 (24/96 Vinyl Rip) *NEW-RIP+REPOST*

The Falcon and the Snowman is an album of original music for the soundtrack of the Orion Pictures film of the same title, composed by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays.
The music is performed by the Pat Metheny Group with occasional orchestrations for strings. The exceptions are a male chorus featuring a young alto which bookends the album and "This Is Not America," a collaboration with David Bowie, credited as producer and co-composer, who performs lyrics for an arrangement of the theme heard in the track "Chris."

This beautiful soundtrack album is a great example of their musical creativity. Mastered by Bob Ludwig (great sound!). Enjoy this vinyl version!

Note > No silence was deleted; please burn this album gapless..

Allmusic.com - 4,5/5

Review:

Forget about the urban jazz style with Metheny's typical fast electric guitar notes here. Actually the guitars are rarely used: it is rather a keyboards-oriented album: Lyle Mays gives us very good refined floating kayboards arrangements, sometimes falling into dramatic and scary film music, especially on the side 2. There are some very good strings arrangements too, performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, which fit very well with Metheny's style and really embellish his music.

Don't miss the song "This is not America", having David Bowie on lead vocals: it is very well made and catchy! You have to hear the wonderful Ambrosian choir on the first track: it is totally grand! Pedro Aznar sings almost perfectly on the "Falcon" track. There are some rhythmic percussions a la Nana Vasconcelos (the Wichita Falls album). Globally, there are some variations on the same theme.

Greenback - Progarchives.com.


Track List:

01 Psalm 121/Flight of the Falcon
02 Daulton Lee
03 Chris
04 The Falcon
05 This Is Not America (D. Bowie)
06 Extent of the Lie
07 The Level of Deception
08 Capture
09 Epilogue (Psalm 121)

Personnel:

* Pat Metheny: guitar synthesizer, acoustic & electric guitars
* Lyle Mays: synthesizers, piano
* Steve Rodby: acoustic bass & electric basses
* Paul Wertico: drums, percussion


* Pedro Aznar: voice on Daulton Lee and "The Falcon"

National Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Steve Rodby) on Flight of the Falcon, Extent of the Lie, The Level of Deception and Capture

Ambrosian Choir (conducted by John McCarthy) on Psalm 121

David Bowie: vocals and lyricist on This Is Not America