Fire Flower hails as the highly-anticipated follow up album to Ananda Project’s  ‘Morning Light’ album released in 2003 on Nite Grooves. Brainchild of Atlanta-based genius producer, Chris Brann, this third full-length artist album on Nite Grooves, solidifies his standing at the forefront of modern dance music production as he turns out yet another glorious tapestry of soulful sounds.  Fire Flower, a beautiful collection of songs contains 14 original pieces and blends such styles as Future Jazz, Neo-Soul, Deep House, Ambient, R&B, Broken Beat, Salsa, & Funk into a cohesive listening excursion setting sail in a new rhythmic era.

Ananda Project supports a revolving cast of outstanding vocalists with mainstays Terrance Downs & Heather Johnson having top-billing. Terrance’s stellar vocals grace the beautifully produced “Space & Time”, “Into The Sunrise”, “Fireworks”, & the funk-jazzy forget me not, “Where the Music Takes You”. We hear the delicate voice of Heather Johnson on the deeply smooth, simple-bassed & equally as percussive, “Let Love Fly”. This time the dynamic group welcomes Chicago stage actress, keyboardist & songstress Denise White, whose extraordinary vocal range and musical skills grace 3 songs including the frenetically jazzy “Free Me”, “Stay As You Are” (who, on this song, critics have compared her voice to Karen Carpenter), and the infectiously hook-y “Stalk You”, destined to be one of the stand-out cuts off the album. Solu Music’s Kai Martin sings on the new single “Universal Love” which has gotten and epic remix by the legendary Jay-J. There are also 2 instrumentals of pure groove. Brann brings a healthy mixture of new styles, new artists, and fusions thereof culminating into what will surely become Ananda Project’s most celebrated artist albums to date.

Having formed in 2000, This collective are headed by Chris Brann alongside core band members, Terrance Downs, Heather Johnson and Julius Speed and guests including Lydia Rhodes, Naked Music’s Gaelle Addison, Kudu’s Sylvia Gordon & Marta Gazman.  They have blessed dancefloors worldwide with their delicious soundscapes including  singles  ‘Cascades Of Colour’, ‘Glory Glory’, ‘Falling For You’, ‘Bahia’ and ‘Kiss Kiss Kiss’ among others. Their distinctive blend of warm, silky melodies have been championed by heavyweights of the dance music world from Gilles Peterson, Danny Tenaglia, Francois K, DJ Spinna, Pete Tong, Joe Claussell and many more. Their debut album was ‘Release’ was unveiled in 2000 with ‘Re-release’ following in 2001. Chris Brann is also the mastermind behind such internationally renowned ensembles such as Wamdue Project with the hit smash ‘King Of My Castle’; Wamdue Kids and P’Taah and has completed remixes for Everything But The Girl as well as remixed the title song for HBO’s hit show Six Feet Under. His works have gained the attention of the industry as well as the dance floor yielding a theme song for a Johnny Walker whiskey commercial with the former song and inclusion in a Karl Lagerfeld movie with the latter.

TRACKLIST
1. You Are There
2. Space & Time
3. Free Me
4. Fireworks
5. Stalk You
6. Where The Music Takes You
7. Many Starred Sky
8. No. 1 To The Sun
9. Let Love Fly
10. Stay As You Are (You Are My Star)
11. Universal Love
12. Seedlife
13. Into The Sunrise
14. Remember When (The Wind Destroyed Our Village)