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- Summary: The 13 tracks were recorded live during Metheny's tour with his 21st century orchestrion.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
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Feb 11, 2013The music that emerges from this contraption [orchestrion] is strangely haunting--antique and jangly, yet at the same time fresh, elegant and surprising.
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Feb 15, 2013While this album's predecessor evidenced his accomplishment in the instrument's creation and operation, The Orchestrion Project reveals that Metheny's possibilities with it have only been tapped.
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Q MagazineFeb 11, 2013This is music of incredible warmth, where melody and emotion come before science. [Mar 2013, p.107]
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MojoFeb 11, 2013Metheny conjures up a dense sonic tapestry comprising kaleidoscopic tone colours. [Mar 2013, p.94]
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Feb 11, 2013Metheny’s use of it here delivers a pale, expensive shadow of what a real band can achieve. The project doesn’t feel like it has longevity, and this release is for the hardcore only.
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