Pat Metheny Group - Offramp

Single-Layer Stereo Japanese import SHM-SACD

The third album by the Pat Metheny Group was released in 1982. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance and contains the popular ballad "Are You Going with Me?". Offramp is the first studio album on which Metheny used a guitar synthesizer, which subsequently became one of Metheny's most frequently used instruments. Offramp is also the first Group album to feature vocals.

Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SHM-SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• Single-Layer Stereo SHM-SACD, to secure enough reflectance and not to compress DSD file
• Label of the disc is printed with a special green ink called 'Onsho Shiyou', which minimizes diffuse reflection
• Carefully selected master audio is used, from existing DSD files to newly converted from analog tapes
• This Single-Layer SHM-SACD can only be played on a Super Audio CD Player!
• Japanese pressing

Musicians:
Pat Metheny, acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, Synclavier
Lyle Mays, piano, synthesizers, autopharp, electric organ, Synclavier
Steve Rodby, acoustic and electric bass
Danny Gottlieb, drums
Nana Vasconcelos, percussion, vocals, berimbau

1. Barcarole

2. Are You Going With Me?

3. Au Lait

4. Eighteen

5. Offramp

6. James

7. The Bat Part 2

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