Brand New Day (Sting album)
Released 24 September 1999
Recorded 1999 at Il Palagio (Italy); Studio Mega (Paris, France); Right Track Recording (New York, NY); Avatar Studios (New York, NY); Air Lyndhurst Hall (London, UK).
Genre Pop rock, world
Length 48:49
Label A&M
0694-90443-2
Producer Sting, Kipper
Brand New Day is the sixth solo studio album by British singer-songwriter Sting, released by A&M Records on 24 September 1999. Fueled heavily by the success of the second single, “Desert Rose” (which prominently features popular Algerian Raï singer Cheb Mami), the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States. Upon its release, Brand New Day was a critical and commercial success, and hailed as the triumphant return for Sting.
The album earned Sting a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and his third Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the title track.
Originally, Sting’s usual producer Hugh Padgham was to produce the album, but Sting was happy with the work done by Kipper, and Padgham was not required.
The full version of “The End of the Game” was included on the single for “Brand New Day” and the DTS and DVD-Audio releases of the album. The music video for the title track is a parody of bleach commercials, and advertises “Brand new ‘Day Ultra'” brand.
Track listing
All tracks written by Sting, except where noted.
1. “A Thousand Years” Kipper, Sting 5:58
2. “Desert Rose” (feat. Cheb Mami) 4:45
3. “Big Lie, Small World” (feat. David Hartley) 5:05
4. “After the Rain Has Fallen” 5:03
5. “Perfect Love… Gone Wrong” (feat. Sté Strausz) 5:24
6. “Tomorrow We’ll See” 4:47
7. “Prelude to the End of the Game” 0:20
8. “Fill Her Up” (feat. James Taylor) 5:39
9. “Ghost Story” 5:29
10. “Brand New Day” 6:19
Japanese edition (enhanced CD)
Personnel
Musicians
Sting – guitar, bass, keyboards, Roland guitar synthesizer, vocals
Kipper – drum programming, keyboards
Dominic Miller – guitars
Manu Katché – drums
Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
Jason Rebello – piano, clavinet
Chris Botti – trumpet
Technical personnel
Sting – production
Kipper – production
Simon Osborne – engineering
Neil Dorfsman – engineering
Geoff Foster – engineering
Chris Blair – engineering
Gary Daniel Cook – Roland VG8 guitar synth programming
Olaf Heine – photography
Carter Smith – photography
Richard Frankel – package design
Additional musicians
Stevie Wonder – harmonica (track 10)
James Taylor – vocals and acoustic guitar (track 8)
Cheb Mami – vocals (track 2)
Branford Marsalis – clarinet
Mino Cinelu – percussion
David Hartley – string arrangement and conduction (tracks 3 and 6), Hammond organ
B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
Kathryn Tickell – Northumbrian pipes, fiddle
Don Blackman – Hammond organ
Sté – French rap (track 5)
Gavyn Wright – string leader (tracks 3 and 6)
Joe Mendez – background vocals
Janice Pendarvis – background vocals
Althea Rodgers – background vocals
Pamela Quinlan – background vocals
Marlon Saunders – background vocals
Veneese Thomas – background vocals
Darryl Tookes – background vocals
Ken Williams – background vocals
Tawatha Agee – background vocals
Dennis Collins – background vocals
Ettamri Mustapha – darbouka
Farhat Bouallagui – string arrangement (track 2), conductor and leader
Moulay Ahmed – strings
Kouider Berkan – strings
Salem Bnouni – strings
Sameh Catalan – strings
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