Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays – As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

Pat Metheny - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls album cover

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Label:	ECM Records – ECM 1190, ECM Records – 2301 190
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album
Country:	Germany
Released:	1981
Genre:	Jazz, Folk, World, & Country
Style:	Smooth Jazz, Fusion, Experimental, Contemporary Jazz

Tracklist

A	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls	20:44
B1	Ozark	4:03
B2	September Fifteenth (Dedicated To Bill Evans)	7:44
B3	"It's For You"	8:20
B4	Estupenda Graça	2:40

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Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ECM Records GmbH
Recorded At – Talent Studio
Pressed By – PRS Hannover
Lacquer Cut At – PRS Hannover
Published By – Pat-Meth Music
Published By – Lyle Mays Music

Credits

Berimbau, Percussion, Drums, Vocals – Nana Vasconcelos*
Composed By – Lyle Mays, Pat Metheny
Design – Barbara Wojirsch
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar [Six And Twelve String], Bass – Pat Metheny
Engineer – Jan Erik Kongshaug
Photography By [Cover] – Klaus Frahm
Photography By [Liner] – Rob van Petten*
Piano, Synthesizer, Organ, Autoharp – Lyle Mays
Producer – Manfred Eicher

Notes

Recorded September 1980 at Talent Studio, Oslo

Publishers:
Pat-Meth Music/Lyle Mays Music (BMI)

An ECM Production
Ⓟ 1981 ECM Records GmbH

Made in W. Germany
Printed in W. Germany

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Label Code: LC 2516
Rights Society (Labels, boxed): GEMA
Rights Society: BMI
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped - variant 1): 2301 190 S 1 320 1A Y
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped - variant 1): 2301 190 S 2 320 1A Q
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped - variant 2): 2301 190 S1 320 AG 1A
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped - variant 2): 2301 190 S2 320 AA 1C
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped - variant 3): 2301 190 S 1 320 1A I
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped - variant 3): 2301 190 S 2 320 1 E
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped - variant 4): 2301 190 S 1 320 AD 1A
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped - variant 4): 2301 190 S 2 320 Y 1C
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped - variant 5): 2301 190 S 1 320 AL 1A
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped - variant 5): 2301 190 S 2 320 AC 1C
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped - variant 6): 2301 190 S 1 320 1A Z
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped - variant 6): 2301 190 S 2 320 1A I
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped - variant 7): 2301 190 S 1 320 1A AN
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped - variant 7): 2301 190 S 2 320 1C AK

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (LP, Album, Stereo, Wakefield Pressing)	ECM Records	ECM-1-1190	US	1981
Recently Edited	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (LP, Album)	ECM Records	58.044	Brazil	1981
New Submission	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (LP, Album)	ECM Records	ECM 1-1190	Canada	1981
New Submission	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (LP, Album)	ECM Records	ECM-1-1190	US	1981
Recently Edited	As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (LP, Album)	ECM Records, ECM Records	PAP-25505, ECM 1190	Japan	1981

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Reviews

_Obscuremuse_ Jul 31, 2022
Cant get into the B side sadly, but the title track is one of the great jazz suits from this label. Wild and primordial but with that wonderful 80's sheen seen on his previous offramp.
christham Feb 1, 2020
An amazing collaboration album between Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays and is more atmospheric and introspective than the Pat Metheny Group albums, and foreshadows Pat's overdubbing experiments and Lyle's solo albums. I felt this album is a good balance of the compositional and performance strengths of the two musicians. The German pressing LP is near mint and plays beautifully silent.
the_electrician Aug 25, 2008
This was one of my first introductions to pieces of music that last for more than twenty minutes without big overblown solos everywhere. Side one is just pure atmospheres, developing in beautiful spaces, it's almost ambient but there's always something simmering under the placid surface. Pat and Lyle do dark ambience so well when they put their hand to it. Love "September Fifteenth (Dedicated To Bill Evans)" - tried to learn how to play it but I couldn't do it justice... (75 words blah)