Sting - Brand New Day [ECD] (CD 1999)

Sting has been one of my favourite artists since Police in the early 80ties. I also liked a lot his solo albums in the late 80ties and early 90ties.
With this album he is flirting with different genres of music like he's been doing on earlier records. Mostly the the CD contains music which is typical Sting from the 90ties, but he is also adding country (track 8), jazzy tunes and even French rap, but mostly Sting pop with a large dose of 'World Music'. The problem is that I find the main impression to be less creative and less inspired here, compared to records like Soul Cages (1991) and Ten summoners' tales (1993). This is more like music for middle aged people conversating at cosy home parties, meaning not really listening.
If I shall say what's on the positive side I would emphesize great musicians of course which has become one of Sting's trademarks. There are also some fine pop tunes here and there, and Desert Rose is maybe the best of them, but the impression of the record as a whole is fairly good, but there's not enough innovation and creativity here to rank above average.