B?la Fleck & the Flecktones - Outbound
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Artist: B?la Fleck & the FlecktonesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-07-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Intro - B?la Fleck,
- Hoedown - B?la Fleck, Copland, Aaron
- A Moment So Close
- Zona Mona
- Hall of Mirrors
- Earth Jam
- Something She Said
- Ovombo Summit - B?la Fleck, Futureman
- Aimun
- Prelude - B?la Fleck,
- Lover's Leap
- Outbound
- Scratch & Sniff
- Shuba Yatra
- That Old Thing
- Reprise - B?la Fleck,
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Free Music Review: B?la Fleck & The Flecktones
Hit: 4 Stars
"Outbound" contains almost eclectic tracks, with "A Moment So Close" and "Zona Mona" appearing back to back. For more catchy vocals, including all the instrumentals expected, try "A Moment So Close" or "Something She Said." For that awesome banjo without a hint of bluegrass, as well as so many other instruments, try "Zona Mona," and "Shuba Yatra." I feel like a lot of this music is on the edge of being boring, yet somehow it's not. Sometimes it sounds like a fun jam session, and other times it sounds like the film score to a Kathleen Turner film. Either way, I'm a fan and you should be too. Pick up a copy and you'll see why.
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Japanese Version Featuring A Bonus Track.B?la Fleck and the Flecktones emit joy, exuberance, and stylistic outreach routinely when playing live. That reach opens their Outbound with "Hoedown," which might just as well be titled "Barn Dances of the Gods," connecting as it does the Appalachian folk lineage to the works of Aaron Copland and Oliver Nelson.
On their first recording for Columbia, this charismatic touring band is making a serious move for the kind of commercial breakthrough (? la The Pat Metheny Group or Heavy Weather) that their talent and ambition should long ago have cemented. Thus, when Shawn Colvin's lilting soprano answers "Futureman" Roy Wooten's raplike intro on the bridge to "A Moment So Close," followed by exotic textures and metric changes right out of a South Indian raga, the effect is not unlike the Dave Matthews Band's sophisticated amalgam of pop and jazz-fusion. Indeed, Futureman's vocals key several excellent tracks, as Outbound finds these virtuoso populists cruising in the passing lane of popular acceptance with airs of Near Eastern, North African, and South Indian folk music abounding (and commingling with Northern European elements on "Shuba Yatra").
Guest artists Adrian Belew on guitar, Andy Narell on steel drums, and John Medeski on organ help flesh out several fine arrangements. Bluesy undercurrents, coy humor, and echoes of rustic and urban Americana abound on the title tune, "Lover's Leap," "Scratch and Sniff," and "That Old Thing." Even when a more jammy mood predominates (as on "Earth Jam," where one of Fleck's electric lines suggests both the tone and phrasing of a Jerry Garcia solo), the virtuoso imagination of banjo master Fleck and bass guitar innovator Victor Wooten are focused entirely at the service of the arrangements. A giant leap forward for the Flecktones and their fans. --Chip Stern
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