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UFO Tofu (CD)

By: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (Artist)
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DISC 1 for UFO Tofu (CD) Album By Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (A...
1   West Country, The
2   Sex In A Pan
3   Nemo's Dream
4   Bonnie And Slyde
5   Scuttlebutt
6   UFO TOFU
7   Magic Fingers
8   True North
9   Life Without Elvis
10   Seresta
11   Yee-haw Factor, The
12   After The Storm
 
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Musician (12/92, p.98) - "...the Flecktones don't simply challenge listeners, they engage them....UFO TOFU is that rarest of birds, a classy fusion outing with brains, style, wit, and heart..."
Reflex (12/15/92, p.71) - "...finds Bela and band prospecting that vast middle ground between Earl Scruggs and Weather Report....deceptively down-home instrumentation makes the Flecktones' music absolutely unique..."

Title Note

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Bela Fleck (banjo); Howard Levy (piano, synthesizer, harmonica, ocarina, pennywhistle); Victor Lemonte Wooten (bass); Future Man (drumitar).

Producers: Bela Fleck, Roy Wooten, Howard Levy, Victor Lemonte Wooten.

All songs written by Bela Fleck except "Sex In A Pan" (Victor Lemonte Wooten) and "Seresta" (Howard Levy/Manfredo Fest).

The Flecktones' third release, UFO TOFU, is a classy forward-thinking fusion outing that doesn't merely challenge listeners with technocratic bluster, but engages them with wit, intelligence, dynamic interplay...and a whole lotta heart. And it's a testament to Fleck's maturing talents as a composer and arranger that UFO TOFU doesn't merely project a hodge-podge of novelties and notions, but a distinctive group identity.

UFO TOFU is the culmination of three-plus years of unrelenting road work, during which time virtuosos Bela Fleck, Howard Levy, Victor Wooten and Roy "Futureman" Wooten had polished their act to a fine sheen, while expanding and refining their synthesis of jazz, country, funk and world music stylings.

But there's nothing self-conscious or contrived about their concord between urban black music and folkish, hillbilly elements, which is what makes the down-home funk of "Magic Fingers" and the dancing Afro-bluegrass of "The Yee-Haw Factor" such a delight. On the latter, they not only employ five-string banjo, harmonica and bass guitar as improvising instruments, but pennywhistle and drumitar as well. Fleck even manages to acknowledge the country-jazz innovations of Gary Burton's DUSTER and COUNTRY ROADS with the Monkish rhythm changes of "Life Without Elvis." "The West Country" echoes ancient folk elements as well as "The Star-Spangled Banner." The title tune is a vigorous romp on which multiple melodic lines mirror each other in a polytonal swelter of counterpoint and crossrhythms, as Fleck's banjo and Levy's keyboards hunt and peck around the Wooten Brothers' canny rhythm accents. And something as lovely as the closing "After The Storm" might be adult contemporary in lesser hands, but the sheer beauty of Levy's harmonica lead and Fleck's chording transcends cheap sentiment.

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