Recorded June 2013 Artist Pat Metheny Unity Group Producer Pat Metheny Genre Jazz | Length 70:16 Release date 3 February 2014 Label Nonesuch Records Inc. | |
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Released February 3, 2014 (2014-02-03) Studio MSR Studios, New York City KIN (←→)
(2014) The Unity Sessions
(2015) Similar Unity Band, The Unity Sessions, Travels, Orchestrion, Secret Story | ||
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Kin (stylized as KIN (←→)) is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny and his Unity Group, an expanded version of 2012's Unity Band, with multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi and saxophonist Chris Potter. Kin was released in February 2014 by Nonesuch Records. It was recorded in June 2013 at MSR Studios in New York.
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Background
Metheny has said that his idea behind Kin was to push the quartet-led concept that led to Unity Band further forward by adding more orchestration to the instrumental core of the band, so that Kin would be "more like the Technicolor, IMAX version of what a band like this could be—but with that hardcore thing still sitting right in the middle of it all." The album also re-explores the concepts of world view, unity and the global village explored on previous Pat Metheny Group albums such as Letter from Home and We Live Here.
Reception
The reviewer Thom Jurek of AllMusic.com awarded the album 4 stars. JazzTimes critique Geoffrey Himes, in his review of Metheny's album KIN (←→) states:
Track listing
All music composed by Pat Metheny.
Personnel
Songs
1On Day One15:16
2Rise Up11:57
3Adagia2:15