I have been listening to Pat Metheny since I was 18 or 19 years old. For me, alongside Allan Holdsworth – he is the greatest guitar player to have graced the earth. They are different players – but for me – Metheny maybe just pips it – because he is also a great composer. When I was thinking through which pieces I would play for my nostalgia book launch – Pat Metheny had to be in there somewhere. His music not only evokes nostalgia it its textures, melody and harmonic structures (which I presume comes from a nostalgic tendency in Metheny himself) – but his music is massively nostalgic for me – it is ‘personal’. Metheny’s music takes me back to my days at music college, through my years as a budding professional musician living in London – through to my later years – where I have simply admired the craft of this great musician. So – here is a ‘one take’ version of a piece of his entitled ‘Travels’. For me, this piece is a musical version of its title – it plays with the ‘home’ key of G major in the initial A sections, before taking the listener on a journey through a variety of non diatonic keys in section B (where the piece ‘travels’) – before being followed by a repeat of section A – where we are once again encourage to engage with the regular resolution of the home key. It seems to follow the journey of a nostalgic such as myself and my complicated relationship with Newcastle.