Artist.......: BΘla Fleck & the Flecktones
Album........: Rocket Science
Label........: Entertainment One Music
Genre........: Country
Catnr........: EOM-CD-2133
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Oct-27-2011
str.date.....: May-17-2011
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.flecktones.com
track title time
01. Gravity Lane 05:58
02. Prickly Pear 03:50
03. Joyful Spring 02:40
04. Life in Eleven 05:25
05. Falling Forward 05:10
06. Storm Warning 07:58
07. Like Water 04:42
08. Earthling Parade 07:58
09. The Secret Drawer 02:12
10. Sweet Pomegranates 05:56
11. Falani 06:51
12. Bottle Rocket 05:53
Runtime 64:33 min
Size 107,3 MB
Release Notes:
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 BΘla Fleck has
reconvened the original BΘla 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.