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...after eight. The lights went off about twenty minutes ago, and for the first time, banjoist Bela Fleck approaches the microphone set up at the front of the stage. He and his Flecktones--bassist Victor Lamonte Wooten and Synth Axe Drumitarist Roy Wooten (also known as Future Man)--have just ripped through an amazing rendition of "Vix-9," the first song on the Flecktone's new album, Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...starting....we try to blend all that stuff together. Now I have an electric banjo with a synth attachment, so I'm able to trigger synth sounds, so that's been a lot of fun too. We try really hard to make it organic, to make pleasing sounds, they have to be interesting sounds, they have to justify themselves. I play around with that live, because it's a lot of fun. People really get off on seeing me play banjo and hearing vibes come out. They like that, and it's fun. There's nothing wrong with good clean...
...equally alluring countermelodies. (I always remember how each early Orange Juice song begins, and almost never how any of them end.) The amateur connoisseurs in their Postcard days also knew how to handle production: nothing is muddy or inarticulate, but nothing is overbright or "too produced" or metallic or synth-damaged either. Nor is there a horn section. When Orange Juice signed to a major label, the evil corporate geniuses who did the signing persuaded them to add trumpets, backing vocals, and other extraneous gauzy trappings: if some songs on You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (the first released...
...couldn't find a rhyme for "Davis"). Pointed Accounts of People You Know (1983) and Distortion (1984) are shorter and easier to dig, with delights to be found not only in the multiple melodies and the self-conscious wit, but in the sheer breadth of brightly muddy synth sound in, say, "Metal and Glass Exact...
Inside, audience members did not see your average dining hall. They beheld a "Funking Hall," complete with raised stage (altar?), multicolored lights, DJ turntables, drums, synth, piano--nearly everything except the soulful musicians themselves...