Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (REMASTERED) (COBALT BLUE VINYL)

How many albums virtually upend a genre? And how many erstwhile bluegrass bands top a contemporary jazz chart?! The answer to these questions, is, one, very few, and two, only Béla Fleck & the Flecktones! Their second album, 1991’s fancifully entitled Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, did indeed top Billboard’s contemporary jazz albums chart and scored a couple of Grammy noms. But more importantly, this record really made explicit the Flecktones’ bebop leanings, as they devised the term “Blu-Bop” to describe their unique fusion of bluegrass and jazz. Stylistic whiplash has never felt so good or sounded so sweet; check out their warm, instrumental wizardry on chestnuts like “Michelle” and “The Star Spangled Banner”…and don’t miss Béla’s banjo power chords on “Turtle Rock!” We had Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision remaster this classic for vinyl for maximum fidelity, and gave it a repress in cobalt blue vinyl limited to just 900 copies. Essential! A1. Blu-Bop A2. Flying Saucer Dudes A3. Turtle Rock A4. Flight of the Cosmic Hippo A5. The Star Spangled Banner B1. Star of the County Down B2. Jekyll and Hyde (and Ted and Alice) B3. Michelle B4. Hole in the Wall B5. Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (Reprise)