mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) (05/05/85)
Have any Pat Metheny fans out there heard the soundtrack album for "The Falcon and the Snowman." If so, what did you think of it? Also, does anyone know if Lyle Mays has made any recordings apart from the group. Thanks in advance, Mike Sykora
donn@utah-gr.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (05/13/85)
From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Have any Pat Metheny fans out there heard the soundtrack album
for "The Falcon and the Snowman." If so, what did you think of
it?
I bought the album. I even saw the movie. The movie was good.
(You want more? Oh, all right. The album's main problem is that it's
movie music, with the exception of a 'single' for which David Bowie
provides some singing and some remarkably silly lyrics. Even as movie
music it doesn't work too well -- it doesn't want to blend into the
action enough. Skip the album, unless you're a diehard fan. For what
it's worth, the album is SV17150 on the EMI label.)
Also, does anyone know if Lyle Mays has made any recordings
apart from the group.
I don't know of any album which Mays has put together himself. Apart
from Metheny's very good pre-Group album WATERCOLORS, which featured
Eberhard Weber on bass, I know of three albums on which Mays has played
as a band member:
LATER THAT EVENING. ECM-1-1231. Eberhard Weber with Lyle
Mays, Paul McCandless, Bill Frisell and Michael DiPasqua. I
like this album a lot -- it's cool without being so avant-garde
as to be incoherent. I like Weber's sound: no other bassist
makes quite the same strange noises. The supporting band,
including Mays, is uniformly good. I hope Weber does another
album with this lineup...
WHEN ELEPHANTS DREAM OF MUSIC. Gramavision GR8203. Bob Moses
(Gary Burton's drummer when Pat was in the band) with a big
band that includes Steve Swallow, Bill Frisell, Sheila Jordan,
Nana Vasconcelos, Lyle Mays and a swarm of others. Basically
strange and eclectic big band music. Mays' part is fairly
small.
FILM MUSIC. Windham Hill WH-1041. Mark Isham with Peter Maunu
(the two together are 'Group 87'), Lyle Mays and others. This
is music from three films which Isham has scored ('Mrs.
Soffel', 'The Times of Harvey Milk' and 'Never Cry Wolf' --
Mays appears on 'Mrs. Soffel'). Much more subdued than Group
87; this music more resembles Isham's VAPOR DRAWINGS. I
haven't seen any of the movies, but this stuff sounds like it
would fit in quite well; that is to say, it sounds like film
music (hence the title!). (Does anyone know of any more solo
efforts by Isham?)
Hope this helps,
Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa
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