Stephen Emmer - Home Ground (2017) [Hi-Res]

Stephen Emmer’s latest musical offering Home Ground combines the eloquence of spiritual, orchestral soul music with socially conscious lyrics. It addresses contemporary concerns within the timeless musical excellence of classic soul combined with the sonic impact of the 21st century. The Home Ground songs are vocally performed by a careful selection of musical icons from the last 5 decades.

Featured artists include Chaka Khan, Leon Ware, Patti Austin, Kendra Foster, Andy Bey, Mary Griffin, Frank McComb, Dwight Trible and Ursula Rucker.

The main lyrical thrust of Home Ground is the world that is in constant conflict or war, whether over land, religion or race; this is not just black against white, it’s also poor against rich, justice against injustice, and the myriad other ongoing conflicts that beset our world.

In an effort to help make this world a better place the Home Ground campaign will be in support of charity. Based on the lyrical context and the fact that the project is music based we immediately thought of War Child as the perfect fit. Especially since they use both music and creativity as an important tool in their program for children to overcome fear, depression and aggression.

The campaign will therefore focus on creating further awareness for the amazing work of War Child. At the same time we'll be donating a fair share of proceedings to support them in helping ‘our’ children, the best thinkable cornerstone of a future world in peace.

Stephen Emmer, piano, bass, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, drum programming
John Beasley, piano
Hein Offermans, double bass
Lau Kagenaar, drums
Yoran Vroom, drums
Martijn Bosman, drums
Joost Kroon, drums
Jeroen de Rijk, percussion
Murk Jiskoot, vibraphone, glockenspiel
Tom Beek, horns
Matthias Konrad, horns
Martijn de Laat, horns
Bert Pfeiffer, horns
Robbert Scherpenisse, horns
Vera van der Bie, strings
Marieke de Bruijn, strings
Ian de Jong, strings
Merel Jonker, strings
Eilidh Martin, strings
Ben Mathot, strings
Isabella Petersen, strings
Jasper van Rosmalen, strings
Jan Willem Troost, strings
Alex Welch, strings
Judith Petra, backing vocals
Denise van Donselaar, backing vocals
Ivar Vermeulen, backing vocals
Laurens Kagenaar, backing vocals
Shirma Rouse, backing vocals

Tracklist:
01. Stephen Emmer - A New Day To Come (4:09)
02. Stephen Emmer - Close To Life (3:54)
03. Stephen Emmer - Interlude #1 (0:17)
04. Stephen Emmer - Home Ground (4:00)
05. Stephen Emmer - Soul Glow (3:25)
06. Stephen Emmer - Interlude #2 (0:25)
07. Stephen Emmer - Under Your Spell (3:51)
08. Stephen Emmer - Everybody’s Movin’ (4:25)
09. Stephen Emmer - Interlude #3 (0:18)
10. Stephen Emmer - Own Again (4:29)
11. Stephen Emmer - Soil (2:13)
12. Stephen Emmer - Interlude #4 (0:23)
13. Stephen Emmer - Place Delight (4:32)
14. Stephen Emmer - God It’s Hot (Today) (3:19)
15. Stephen Emmer - Yesterday Oh Yesterday (4:58)
16. Stephen Emmer - Pangea (2:18)