Bela Fleck, Flecktones - Outbound
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Free Music Review: Great CD
Hit: 5 Stars
I love the music on this cd, wish there were a few more songs with actual singing but every song has a great rhythm.Free Music Review: great
Hit: 5 Stars
this is probably the best bela fleck album ever! i love every single song on it.Free Music Review: 4 1/2 Stars because it doesn't top Live Art
Hit: 4 Stars
The 'Tones have done it again! Created a completely different album from any of the others. You never get a chance to say, it's just the same old thing with this band. They are so tight and talented that they can blow you away in every musical style! I do wish that Bela was just a bit more of a show off, though. He tends to hang back and blend in, and that's too bad for his biggest fans. You have never heard anyone mold the sound of a banjo in so many ways! Jeff Coffin has become an amazing musician while working with Bela, Victor, and Roy, but he could learn to blend in a bit, himself. Bela is the most talented writer I have ever enjoyed, too! The time signatures and diversity of sound he incorporates is unfathomable! I've seen him live with the Flecktones several times, as well as with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and with Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall on their Uncommon Ritual tour. My God! Every concert is breathtaking! And Bela is consistently wonderful. If you have never heard Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, you won't believe the diversity on even this one album! But don't stop here. Go back and get them all. Each one has it's own texture and they all stand the test of time! Then go check out Bela's solo work, too. Totally amazing! And DEFINITELY see them in person! You will be a fan for life! And they even sign autographs after the show, real down-to-Earth folks.Free Music Review: Good, not great
Hit: 4 Stars
One of the great things about the early Flecktones albums was the lack of over dubs, they just consisted of 4 guys getting together and playing. This album is anything but that. Even though it is exciting to hear the depth that these added musicians add, the album to me seems over produced. Plus, this album continues in the same style of their previous record, with more vocals and more of a smooth-jazz type style. This is not to say that the album doesn't have many fine spots. Hoedown is a fantastic piece, full of energy, twists, and unexpected turns. A Moment So Close is a complex pop arrangement, with many different sections and styles that you can't help but feel intrigued by them when you listen to it. However, some of the tracks are somewhat predictable (a word I thouht I would never use when describing this group), such as Zona Mona and Something She Said. All in all, a good album if you like a very solidly produced album with lots of guests, but if you like the more organic sound of the earlier incarnations of the Flecktones, I would stick with those albums instead.Free Music Review: Bela, it's what's for music
Hit: 4 Stars
I had almost given up on the Flecktones after the terrible "Left of Cool." "Outbound" renewed my faith in the band, however. Beginning with their interpretation of Aaron Copeland's "Hoedown" (better known as the "Beef, it's what's for dinner" ad music) and continuing on through excursions into throat singing, Irish music, space jams and the Royel, this CD satisfies through and through. I'm very glad to see Paul McCandless back working with the band; I enjoy his sax playing much more than that of Jeff Coffin. The only reason I don't give this CD five stars is that bass player Victor Wooten seems subdued again as he did on "Left of Cool." Give this guy his own cut and let him explode! The world needs to know more about him. Finally, does anyone else hear the opening of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" (the line that goes "You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen") in "Shuba Yatra?" Enjoy!