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Pat Metheny plays the entire orchestra by himself all at the same time.
Pat Metheny is the Mozart of our time. This is his Orchestrion project from a few years ago, something he explained that when he put it together was an exercise in pushing the limits in performance.
I’ve been a Pat Metheny fan since the 80’s when I was first introduced to his music when a girl took me to a Pat Metheny Group concert on the campus of the University of Buffalo. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I think I ignored her the whole night while watching the band!
They opened the show with a crazy song called Forward March with the whole band walking in from all parts of the gymnasium playing horns and toy instruments in a deliberately out of tune march song before lanuching into their classic Phase Dance.
30 years later he is still innovating and this piece is an example of that from a few years back by an entire mechanical Orchestrion orchestra using solenoids triggered by his guitar (while playing the guitar parts simultaneously)
Sharing this now for that new generation of people who may have never heard of Pat Metheny.
