Khan's Castle

Well, I was laughing at myself this morning. Against the strong advice of a very old friend, I bought a used copy of Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance for Silence. For the $3.40 it cost I got a copy of what has the reputation of being an almost unlistenable album of "noise guitar". Oddly enough, I sort of got into it listening to the first track—18 minutes or so—coming to work in the car this morning. Not that it's what you'd call pleasant or pretty, but I did connect with it in a way that I didn't expect to. It reminded me distinctly more of crowd noises, people talking, and talking all over each other's conversations, than of music per se. It communicated a feeling, or an idea, that normal music just can't get across. I found it surprisingly interesting and look forward to the rest of the album.