01	intro						00:43
	02	Hoe Down						04:56
	03	A Moment So Close						04:49
	04	Zona Mona						05:03
	05	Hall of Mirrors						04:56
	06	Earth Jam						05:57
	07	Something She Said						03:38
	08	ovombo summit						00:42
	09	Aimum						05:52
	10	prelude						00:43
	11	Lover's Leap						04:18
	12	Outbound						04:54
	13	Scratch and Sniff						05:02
	14	Shuba Yatra						04:44
	15	That Old Thing						03:23
	16	reprise						00:44

Date of Release Jul 25, 2000

After a decade with Warner Bros., Bela Fleck jumped to Sony's Columbia Records, signing a five-record deal that called for two releases on Sony Classical, a solo album, and two discs with his band the Flecktones of which Outbound is the first. It is a typically eclectic effort. For example, the Fleck original "Shuba Yatra" (its title, he explains in the press materials, "is an Indian term that means taking a journey with a safe return") features a tabla player and Fleck on a "sitar banjo," an electrified instrument with a banjo head and a sitar bridge. Such instruments give the tune something of an Indian flavor, except that much of it is borrowed from traditional Irish music with a touch of South African rhythm. Such odd juxtapositions of instrumentation and style are typical not only from track to track but also within tracks. Fleck and his bandmates seem to view all styles of music as readily and randomly interchangeable, but sometimes, as with a colorblind person picking out clothes, the results clash or otherwise disturb, and the rest of the time they come off as flashy and insubstantial. Fleck really offers no defense to the charge of being a musical dilettante, he simply celebrates the surface pleasures of different varieties of music, offering an overlapping series of appetizers. A fan of any particular style is liable to feel that it has been trivialized, but Fleck doesn't mean any harm. His music represents the pursuit of facileness as a musical goal, one that he and his band achieve with alacrity. - William Ruhlmann

1. Intro - :41
2. Hoedown (Copland) - 4:54
3. A Moment So Close (Fleck) - 4:47
4. Zona Mona (Coffin/Fleck) - 5:01
5. Hall of Mirrors (Fleck) - 4:54
6. Earth Jam (Fleck/Futureman/Wooten) - 5:55
7. Something She Said (Fleck) - 3:36
8. Ovombo Summit (Futureman) - :40
9. Aimun (Coffin/Fleck/Futureman/Wooten) - 5:50
10. Prelude - :41
11. Lover's Leap (Fleck) - 4:16
12. Outbound (Fleck) - 4:52
13. Scratch & Sniff (Fleck/Wooten) - 5:00
14. Shuba Yatra (Fleck) - 4:42
15. That Old Thing (Fleck) - 3:21
16. Reprise - :44


Edgar Meyer - Bass (Acoustic)
Jon Anderson - Vocals
Adrian Belew - Guitar (Electric), Overdub Engineer
Shawn Colvin - Vocals
Andy Narell - Steel Pan
David Angell - Violin
John Catchings - Cello
Jeff Coffin - Clarinet, Flute (Alto), Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor), Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
David Davidson - Violin
Bela Fleck - Banjo, Guitar, Engineer, Sitar (Electric), National Steel Guitar, Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
Paul Hanson - Bassoon, Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor)
Ken Latchney - Engineer
Paul McCandless - Horn (English), Oboe, Sax (Soprano), Penny Whistle
John Medeski - Organ
Denny Purcell - Mastering
Future Man - Synthesizer, Cymbals, Drums (Bass), Tambourine, Tom-Tom, Sampling, Zildjian, Drumitar, Zendrum
Richard Battaglia - Engineer
Zach Newton - Engineer
Tracy Hackney - Engineer
Sandip Burman - Tabla



2000 CD Sony 62178
2000 CD Sony 62178