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Earth Wind & Fire - Illumination

 

 

 

 

Earth Wind & Fire – Illumination

 

 

Product Info

From the funky disco beats of ‘Love’s Dance’ and ‘Lovely People’ featuring Will.I.Am (Black Eyed Peas) and the soaring soulful vocals of ‘Pure Gold’ to the
groove-filled floor filler ‘This Is How I Feel’ featuring vocals from Kelly Rowland (Destiny’s Child) and Sleepy Brown, and rapping from Big Boi (Outkast) –
ILLUMINATION is a masterpiece of modern R&B, soul, funk, disco & fusion which has ultimately re-realised the original vision of Philip Bailey and Maurice White.

ILLUMINATION includes the bonus track “The Way You Move” by Kenny G, also featured on Kenny G’s album.

Review

A great album showing where Soul Music should be today and whilst using a band that at one point in their history were the biggest thing on the planet, this is an album of now, and features many current top artists.

Initially I thought it was a bit sparse but after a few plays it really grows on you and there is barely a bad track on there. Show me the way featuring Raphael Saadiq is 7 minutes pplus of wonderment.  Love together another rof Raphael’s is funkier, beatier.  Pass you by is a Rapael Saadiq slow jam.  Work it Out is old skool but more akin to Sly and the Family Stone than EWF.

The one is produced by Organized Noise which is more contemporary R’n’B, pounding beat, laid down vocals until the lead kicks in.  very much a track for today and it really works. Elevated fetaures the wonderful Floetry, and they lay down their stamp of Urban Rap and Neo Soul.

This is how I feel features Sleepy Brown Big Boi and kelly rowland, another Organised Noise, and as you will probably therefore appreciate is very today’s Urban, but the unmistakeable EWF harmonies add to it which together with the horns give it a funky beat.

Different style again on Vikter Duplaix’s Liberation, which again works, very percussive, harmonic and chilled.  Love’s Dance is a Jam and Lewis production, a track that wills set Modern Soul danncefloors alight. Back to the contemporary with Will I am of the Peas on Lovely People.

There’s a bonus track around of The Way You move featuring Kenny g, which really is just the riff and chorus of The Way you move.

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