Béla and the Flecktones recently put out a new album, Outbound. While it features their famous World Music-Jazz-Bluegrass amalgamation of joy, it is also a somewhat experimental album, even more so than their 1998 release, Left of Cool. Featuring vocals by Shawn Colvin and guest appearances by numerous other artists, Outbound moves further in the direction of Left of Cool.
Perhaps the most wonderful track on the album is one of the Flecktones' live standards, a wild Newgrass-jazz take on the Aaron Copland classic of Appalachian country/folk, Hoedown.
The album, as Béla's listeners have come to expect, experiments with sounds from all over the world-- from traditional Indian folk music to the interesting if somewhat unexplored field of Scandinavian music.
Track List
Intro
Hoe Down
Moment So Close
Zona Mona
Hall Of Mirrors
Earth Jam
Something She Said
Ovombo Summit
Aimum
Prelude
Lovers Leap
Outbound
Scratch & Sniff
Shuba Yatra
That Old Thing
Reprise
The Japanese version contains one bonus track:
Two Timers
Artists
Béla Fleck : Banjo, Guitar, Steel Guitar, Electric Sitar
Future Man : Cymbals, Drumitar, Drums (Bass), Sampling, Synthesizer, Tambourine, Tom-Tom, Zendrum, Zildjian
Paul Hanson : Bassoon, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Paul McCandless : Horn (English), Oboe, Penny Whistle, Sax (Soprano)
John Medesk] : Organ
Edgar Meyer : Bass (Acoustic)
Andy Narell : Steel Pan
Jon Anderson : Vocals
David Angell : Violin
Adrian Belew : Guitar (Electric)
Sandip Burman : Tabla
John Catchings : Cello
Jeff Coffin : Clarinet, Flute (Alto), Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Shawn Colvin : Vocals
David Davidson : Violin
Production Credits
Tracy Hackney : Engineer
Ken Latchney : Engineer
Zach Newton : Engineer
Denny Purcell : Mastering
Richard Battaglia : Engineer
Adrian Belew : Overdub Engineer
Jeff Coffin : Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
Béla Fleck : Engineer, Horn Arrangements, String
Arrangements
(This information is courtesy of Sony records)
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