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Across the continent, at the University of California at Irvine, evolutionary biologist Michael Rose has created a community of fruit flies almost 1 million strong. The fleck-size insects spend their time doing what fruit flies do: they eat, they breed, they fly. But they do it for a lot longer. Fruit flies in Rose's colony may survive for up to 140 days. In the absence of predators, fruit flies in the wild get just 70. A person with this kind of longevity would easily exceed 150 years...
...first time, we woke up and found there were drug murders," says a businessman. "This kind of thing isn't supposed to happen on a little island like St. Kitts." No it isn't, not on St. Kitts or any of the other outcroppings of paradise that fleck the Caribbean. Yet the islands now play a major role in the international drug trade, with all its attendant corruption and violence...
Another musical collaboration on the album, "Backwoods Galaxy," the eighth track, pairs Fleck's banjo with Chick Corea's piano and Branford Marsalis' tenor saxophone. The three musicians establish the song's complicated tone by first hammering out a funky, amorphous wall of sound. The banjo then sets up a background for the improvised doodlings of Marsalis' smooth horn and Corea's tight piano solos...
...seventh track, "Arkansas Traveler," poignantly illustrates Fleck's impressive ability to integrate disparate musical instruments and styles. The song begins with Fleck picking a simple folk melody alone. After several bars, percussion and bass lines emerge, sounding like the rhythm section of an Oscar Peterson album. The interplay between the banjo's folk melody and the jazz rhythms established by the drums and acoustic bass is astoundingly coherent. The phrasing is completely jazz, but the sound remains folk...
...Fleck has produced an album that is honestly original and revolutionary. "Tales from the Acoustic Planet" cannot be described adequately in the usual musical vocabulary. To do it justice, slip on your shoes and pick it up at your trusty, neighborhood record store. Maybe you can take the old basset hounds along. He needs to get out more often anyway...