Rocket Science

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Rocket Science

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Artist: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2011-05-17
Music Label: Entertainment One Music
Soundtracks:

Gravity Lane
Prickly Pear
Joyful Spring
Life In Eleven
Falling Forward
Falani
Storm Warning
Earthling Parade
The Secret Drawer
Sweet Pomegranates
Like Water
Bottle Rocket

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Music Review: Back and Better Than Ever
Rating: 5 Stars

For you Flecktones fans - Howard's back! Need I say more?
For those of you who haven't listened to the Flectones and wondering if it's worth taking the plunge - yes, and with this release.
The return of the original Flectones is not a reprise, it is a giant step forward. All four members are master artists, not only as technicians on their instruments but as compositional geniuses. On the three previous original lineup releases - the eponymous debut, 'Flight of the Cosmic Hippo' and 'UFO Tofu' - much of the music came from working out arrangements onstage before recording them. This style of songwriting resulted in sonic fireworks, with a level of musicianship and interplay that is staggering to listen to.
The songs on this new CD were composed, then brought into the studio without working them out onstage. There are still fireworks in abundance, but also a number of compositions that display greater depth and texture than the previous releases. This is what twenty years of intervening experience and perspective bring to the band.
I will leave it to the listener to be beguiled by each song without my own poor commentary.
What is Flectones music? I have seen other reviewers throw out mounds of adjectives to try to capture the feel, but mere words cannot contain it. I will leave you instead with three adjectives it is not:
It is not ordinary.
It is not boring.
It is not forgettable.

If your tastes are confined to one or two genres, this may not be for you. If you approach music as exploration and/or adventure, strap yourself in and enjoy.

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Description of Rocket Science

Bela Fleck is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys® in jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, christian, composition and world music categories. His totalcount is 11 Grammys® won, and 27 total nominations. Groundbreaking banjoist/composer/bandleader Béla Fleck has reconvened the original Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, the extraordinary initial line-up of his incredible combo. Rocket Science marks the first recording by the first fab four Flecktones in almost two decades, with pianist/harmonica player Howard Levy back in the fold alongside Fleck,
bassist Victor Wooten, and percussionist/ drumitarist Roy Futureman Wooten. Far from being a wistful trip back in time, the album sees the Grammy® Award-winning quartet
creating some of the most forward thinking music of their long, storied career. While all manner of genres come into play from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music to electric blues and Eastern European folk dances the result is an
impossible to pigeonhole sound all their own, a meeting of musical minds that remains, as ever, utterly indescribable. Simply put, it is The Flecktones, the music made only when these four individuals come together. I didn t want to just get together to play the old music, Fleck says. That s not what the Flecktones are about. Everybody s full of life and ideas and creativity. I was intrigued by what we could do that we had never done before.
Visionary and vibrant as anything in their already rich canon, Rocket Science feels more like a new beginning than simply the culmination of an early chapter. The band now embarks on an extensive tour, and there s no telling how this new music will further
develop in performance. We re going to have to have this experience together and see how everybody likes it, Fleck says. I know that we haven t even come close to exhausting the possibilities with this record, but we sure went deeper than we ever had before.

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