jazz 44 min 10 tracks Warner Records
Flight of the Cosmic Hippo is the second album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 1991. It reached number 1 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. The album title came from an audience member who suggested "Flight of the Codeine Hippo"; the band changed "codeine" to "cosmic".
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Spare, warm, contemporary and cool.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- 1Blu-Bop4:22
- 2Flying Saucer Dudes4:51
- 3Turtle Rock4:13
- 4Flight of the Cosmic Hippo4:28
- 5The Star Spangled Banner2:35
- 6Star of the County Down4:22
- 7Jekyll and Hyde (and Ted and Alice)7:05
- 8Michelle5:10
- 9Hole in the Wall4:39
- 10Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (reprise)2:16
10 tracks, 44 minutes.
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- Warner Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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