Brand New Day

Brand New Day is Sting’s sixth solo album. A Grammy Award winner, it peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and sold over 3,000,000 copies. The song “Desert Rose” prominently features popular Algerian Raï singer Cheb Mami. Originally, Sting’s usual producer Hugh Padgham was to produce the record, but Sting was happy with the work done by Kipper, and Padgham was never called. Many sounds from Spectrasonics can be heard in Kipper’s work on the record.

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.

Sting (vocals, guitar, bass);
Cheb Mami, James Taylor, Ste (vocals);
Dominic Miller (guitar); B.J. Cole (pedal steel guitar);
Katherine Tickell (fiddle, Northumbrian pipes);
Gavin Wright, Moulay Ahmed, Koulder Berkan, Salem Bnouni, Sameh Catalan (strings);
Branford Marsalis (clarinet);
Stevie Wonder (harmonica);
Chris Botti (trumpet); Jason Robello (piano, Clavinet);
Dave Hartley, Don Blackman (Hammond B-3 organ);
Kipper (keyboards, drum programming);
Manu Katche, Vinnie Colaiuta (drums);
Minu Cinelu (percussion); Joe Mendez, Janice Pendarvis, Althea Rodgers, Marlon Saunders, Veneese Thomas, Darryl Tookes, Ken Williams, Tawatha Agee, Dennis Collins (background vocals); Ettamri Mustapha.

Principally recorded at Il Palagio, Italy and Mega Studios, Paris, France 1999.