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EARTH WIND & FIRE Spirit (2021 UK/EU 9-track LP pressed on 180-gram Flaming Orange Marbled Vinyl, limited to just 2500 individually numbered copies. EW&F's essential 1976 funky album named in tribute to long time collaborator and producer, Charles Stepney. Includes the Grammy nominated instrumental track 'Earth, Wind & Fire'! Hi-gloss picture sleeve, numbered on the back, with lyric insert and gold hype sticker. Recommended) Tracklisting & Info: 180-gram Flaming Orange Marbled vinyl The wise saying "spiritus ubi vult spirat" ("the spirit blows where it wills") is interpreted by Earth, Wind & Fire with impressive clarity. Gentle sounds and modest gestures are foreign to the colourful Afro group, who in their live performances welded together ancient Egyptian Pharaonic mysticism with urban street life. That this spirit, which is found in the LP title and blows all the way through it, was guaranteed not only by the exuberant wind section in the group’s early years. With regard to rhythm, too, the band rolls out almost everything to pave the floor with powerful disco patterns, not forgetting the elegant and finely controlled falsetto, which adds further pep. Out of all this came the highly cultivated and expressive vocals as in Imagine, carefully balanced ballads ("Burnin’ Bush"), as well as a powerful sound that is so good for dancing to, as in the memorable number "Saturday Nite." An extremely wide range of musical genres was brought together by Earth, Wind & Fire in a big-band sound that is "innovative yet popular, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing" — Rolling Stone Magazine Personnel Maurice White (voc, dr, perc); Philip Bailey (voc, cga, perc); Larry Dunn (p, org, synth); Johnny Graham (g); Al McKay (g, perc); Jerry Peters (p); Verdine White (voc, b, perc); Fred White, Ralph Johnson (dr, perc); a.o SIDE A 1. GETAWAY 2. ON YOUR FACE 3. IMAGINATION 4. SPIRIT SIDE B 1. SATURDAY NITE 2. EARTH, WIND & FIRE 3. DEPARTURE 4. BIYO 5. BURNIN' BUSH Year of Release – 2021 Format – vinyl LP album (LP record) Record Label – Music On Vinyl Catalogue No – MOVLP2682 Country of Origin – United Kingdom Barcode – 8719262014176
