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...constant buzz of the same commercial music all around the world or even in international advertising. It lies in something deeper: thanks to the modern idea of constant progress, with its inherent expansionism, and to the rapid evolution of science that comes directly from it, our planet has, for the first time in the long history of the human race, been covered in the space of a very few decades by a single civilization--one that is essentially technological...
...destroyan entire metropolis in a single air-raid. And howmuch easier would it be today, in the era oftelevision, for a madman like Hitler or Stalin topervert the spirit of a whole nation. When havepeople ever had the power we now possess to alterthe climate of the planet or deplete its mineralresources or the wealth of its fauna and flora inthe space of a few short decades? And how muchmore destructive potential do terrorists have attheir disposal today than at the beginning of thiscentury...
...policing what their children hear and see overlook that even good parents -- who've never been busier or had a more pervasive pop culture to contend with -- are sometimes too overwhelmed to fight. Bad parents -- and there are millions -- aren't even trying. But we all must share the planet with the kids they're raising badly...
...music on Fleck's new CD, "Tales from the Acoustic Planet," is not simply to be defined as bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, funk or classical. It sounds something like jazz, but it's scored like classical and played on a banjo. Fleck has sculpted an acoustically-based musical style that is like nothing this listener has ever heard before...
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...