This cd is a reissue of the late Maurice White’s solo album outside of his famed Earth, Wind and Fire, recorded in 2019. There are also a handful of bonus tracks from the same period, previously unissued. I’m not sure what White was trying to prove at this stage of his career, but he opens things up with a lot of promise, getting a bit folksy with rhythm guitar on “Sweet Surrender”. After that, there are a lot of EWF songs that focus on synth sounds that hip horns, as on “Panic Button”, “Young Hearts” and “I Couldn’t Be Me Without You”, with a bit of tropical feel on “Wiggle”. No new directions, more like missing older partners.