Earth, Wind & Fire - Millennium (1993) {Reprise}

Earth, Wind & Fire - Millennium (1993) {Reprise}
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Genre: R&B, soul

Millennium is the 16th album by Earth, Wind & Fire. Released on 14 September, 1993, this marks their return to the Warner Bros. Records family after 21 years of being with Columbia. This features the hit songs "Sunday Morning" "Two Hearts", and "Spend The Night".

Since the mid-1980s, Earth, Wind & Fire's output had been erratic and quite uneven. One never knew whether the veteran soul/funk band would come out with something as impressive as Share the World or something as embarrassing as Heritage. After many years with Columbia, EWF switched to Warner Bros. – ironically, a label that gave Maurice White and friends the boot back in 1972 – with Millennium. While Heritage found EWF bending over backwards to appeal to urban contemporary tastes, sounding unnatural and even silly in the process, Millennium is a more honest and organic recording. Though hardly in a class with That's The Way Of The World or Spirit – or for that matter, Share The World – Millennium is a decent offering that finds the crew being true to itself. Much of the material, especially "Sunday Morning," "Chicago (Chi-Town) Blues" and "Honor the Magic," is fairly memorable. Unfortunately, the urban contemporary audience wasn't receptive to EWF's honesty. As influential as EWF had been, and as often as it had been sampled in hip-hop, the group was treated like it was expendable.

01. Even If You Wonder
02. Sunday Morning
03. Blood Brothers
04. Kalimba Interlude
05. Spend The Night
06. Divine
07. Two Hearts
08. Honor The Magic
09. Love Is The Greatest Story
10. The L Word
11. Just Another Lonely Night
12. Super Hero
13. Wouldn't Change A Thing About You
14. Love Across The Wire
15. Chicago (Chi-Town) Blues
16. Kalimba Blues
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Maurice White-lead vocals, Kalimba, percussion
Philip Bailey-lead vocals
Verdine White-bass
Andrew Woolfolk-saxophones
Ralph Johnson-percussion
Sheldon M. Reynolds-vocals, guitar, Tuscanini keyboards

EARTH, WIND & FIRE HORNS:
Gary Bias-saxophones
Ray Brown-trumpet
Reggie Young-trombone

SPECIAL GUESTS:
Gerald Albright-saxophone
Paulinho da Costa-percussion
Ronnie Laws-saxophone

Produced by Maurice White for Kalimba International
Recorded by Paul Klingberg
Track 8 Produced by Maurice White & Freddy Ravel
Track 13 Produced by Maurice White & Frankie Blue
Track 15 Produced by Maurice White & Bill Meyers
Assistant engineer: Mark Fergesen, Keith Kresge, Judy Kirshner, Terry Reiff, Ray Blair, and Lee Waters

Recorded at Sonic Lab, Devonshire Studios, Andora Studios, Capitol Studios
Mixed by Mick Guzauski
Assisted by Jeff Graham
Mixed at Devonshire Studios
"Super Hero" and "Divine" mixed by Keith Cohen at Larrabee Sound Studios, assisted by Tom Daugherty
"Honor The Magic" and Kalimba interludes mixed by Vachik Aghaniantz at Pacifique Recording Studios, assisted by Anas Allaf
Additional engineering: Guy DeFazio
Mastered by Steve Hall at Future Disc Systems

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