And that particular title – in fact, you know, this is true of almost every record – it takes me longer to settle on a title than to write the tune and record it and everything else, because I don't want to mess it up. And that's always the hardest part for me. And at the same time, I do understand that what you want is a title that does no harm, so to speak, and maybe helps a little. If I could be invisible personally and then call each tune "Opus 1043," I would be much happier because I don't really feel like any of it has much to do with me personally. Pat Metheny Truth be told, titles are my nemesis in the universe. And I guess it's a thing because it's out now!Īl Davis One of the tunes I do like, and I like the title, too, it's called “The Waves Are Not the Ocean.” That's a pretty interesting title. Eventually there were these nine tunes that I wanted to listen to over and over again for various reasons. ![]() And so, then I thought, well, maybe I should look around for some more. That's usually a sign for me of something. There's one tune on there called “From the Mountains” that I just was like, "What? What is that? I don't even remember that." And I found myself wanting to listen to it over and over again. And I was on a tour and just started opening things and then found a couple things. But I did have this file with, I'm not going to say hundreds, but somewhere between 100-200 folders. And a lot of it is, like I said, just research. I wake up almost every morning and write something and then record it. My really good friend Charlie Haden was always looking for tunes, and I would send him lead sheets and he would be like, "Can't you just make a little demo of it and send it to me, too?" So, I started doing that, and that was a while back. I want to hear what this guitar sounds like in this kind of setting, or I'm writing a lot of tunes and I want to just document what I think they sound like at the time I'm writing them beyond what's just written on the page, because sometimes you can't get everything. My basic thing is that I do a lot of music that I'm doing for research purposes more than anything. And this one is absolutely unique in the way that it came to be in the sense that almost always you begin with an intention or a band or a concept or bunch of tunes or an idea of something, and then you follow that through to a conclusion. Pat Metheny Yeah, somebody told me the other day – because I didn't actually know the number – I've done 53 albums across all these years. Can you explain the way they all ended up in this new album? ![]() This was not the traditional path to a recording, these are things you've been recording here and there throughout the years and you decided to go back and take a listen. ![]() Tyler Alderson I guess we should start with this new recording that you have, Dream Box. Ahead of his show at the Wilbur Theatre on September 21, guitarist Pat Metheny tells Tyler Alderson and Al Davis about how he has continued to find new approaches to music throughout his decades-long career.
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