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A Map of the World: Original Soundtrack | 
| Artist: Pat Metheny
Label: Wea
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 97271
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 47366
UPC: 093624736622
EAN: 0093624736622
ASIN: B00002DEYS
Release Date: November 15, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Map Of The World | | • | Family | | • | North | | • | Home | | • | Sisters | | • | Childhood | | • | Fall From Grace | | • | Memory | | • | Gone | | • | Flight | | • | Alone | | • | Outcasts | | • | Discovery | | • | Acceptance | | • | Realization | | • | Soliloquy | | • | Night | | • | Sunrise | | • | Resolution | | • | Pictures | | • | Patience | | • | Transition | | • | Reunion | | • | Renewal | | • | Homecoming | | • | Forgiveness | | • | Holding Us |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
A Map of the World is Pat Metheny's fourth film score. It is immediately noteworthy as this is the first time that he undertakes lead vocals as well as composing/arranging on a soundtrack album. The primary ensemble consists of Metheny's acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, played here by Steve Rodby, and chamber orchestra. But it is Metheny's folk-jazz melodies that are most prominent. Underlayered with the gentle harmonies of a restrained string section, the dynamics masterfully suggest both the expansiveness of the Mid Western landscape and the details of human emotions there. The basic melodic theme (represented on the album by the title track) is never far away, constantly referred to across the whole emotive canvas. Although Map of the World has no obvious hits such as "This Is Not America", the track that was popularised by David Bowie on Metheny's first soundtrack project, "The Falcon and the Snowman" (1984), this is a much more beautiful allbum. Kansas City's unpredictable master of mood paints A Map of the World as a place where evocative melodies and harmonic progressions are exquisitely played. --D. Isaac Stander
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 Sheer melodic genius June 19, 2008
Another beautiful piece of work from an incredible artist. Pat has an uncanny knack of creating a tangible sense of emotion with everything he's involved with. Melody and atmosphere are here in abundance and should appeal to a wide audience- As another reviewer here remarked, this album isn't really representative of his work with the Pat Metheny Group although for me there's little doubt it's a Metheny record.
The music mirrors the gorgeous artwork contained on sleeve and disc label, interpreting and conjuring images of vivid nostalgia and melancholic contemplation. A wonderful record.
It shouldn't be filed under jazz! October 14, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best album I've heard in years. More classical than jazz. Immaculately recorded. Opens with a beautiful, sad, acoustic guitar theme, which returns throughout the album; then a couple of medium tempo jazz influenced tracks, before moving into a slow, sparse, haunting orchestral strings landscape for the bulk of the remainder with Metheny playing minimal and highly emotive guitar. I've never seen the film, and in a way, I don't want to. This superb music conjures up its own images.
a map of the world January 30, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i heard this music on streamingsoundtracks.com and thought it was great. i bought this album which i luckily found here on amazon. i bought it on awhim and to my surprise is one of my favourite buys of the year. a really original and interesting score. it uses alot of live instruments along with an orchestra. its a great fusion of what is a calm free thinking score that just flows. if your a fan of film music you'll love it for its orginality and wit !
Relaxin' in wonderful world places October 13, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
That was what I felt when listening to this record. Sometimes melancolic tunes with a smooth feelin' of nostalgy.
 Beautiful, haunting and blissful December 3, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A glorious album, played sparsely and with feeling. The theme established in the opening track is repeated and developed throughout creating an autumnal landscape where you can let yourself go. The kind of atmosphere I expected with the Jim Hall collaboration and never found.
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