Pat Metheny emerges on his second album, Watercolors, 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.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WatercolorsPat Metheny | Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Lyle Mays, Eberhard Weber | Play | 06:32 | 14 MB | 32 MB |
| 2 | IcefirePat Metheny | Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Lyle Mays, Eberhard Weber | Play | 06:11 | 14 MB | 19 MB |
| 3 | OasisPat Metheny | Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Lyle Mays, Eberhard Weber | Play | 04:07 | 9 MB | 14 MB |
| 4 | LakesPat Metheny | Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Lyle Mays, Eberhard Weber | Play | 04:48 | 10 MB | 23 MB |
| 5 | River QuayPat Metheny | Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Lyle Mays, Eberhard Weber | Play | 05:01 | 11 MB | 22 MB |
| 6 | Sea SongPat Metheny | Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Lyle Mays, Eberhard Weber | Play | 10:18 | 23 MB | 42 MB |
| 7 | Suite_I.Florida Greeting Song II.Legend Of The Fountain | Pat Metheny | Play | 05:07 | 11 MB | 20 MB |
| 42 mins | 96 MB | |||||
| 42 mins | 175 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dieter Bonhorst | Artwork, Layout Design |
| 2 | Manfred Eicher | Producer |
| 3 | Danny Gottlieb | Drums, Drums (Snare), Guest Artist, Primary Artist |
| 4 | Lajos Keresztes | Cover Photo, Photography |
| 5 | Jan Erik Kongshaug | Engineer |
| 6 | Lyle Mays | Guest Artist, Piano, Primary Artist |
| 7 | Pat Metheny | 12-String Bass Guitar, Composer, Guitar, Guitar (12 String), Harp Guitar, Primary Artist |
| 8 | Eberhard Weber | Bass, Guest Artist, Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |