AI Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire

This is my AI tribute to one of the most soulful tracks ever recorded — After The Love Has Gone by Earth, Wind & Fire.

🎹 In this project, I made a lifelong dream come true — performing the piano and bass lines alongside one of my all-time favorite bands. And yes, those parts are truly played — over two decades of music experience finally met 21st-century technology 🤓

Over the weekend, I stepped into a “virtual studio” built entirely with modern AI tools to explore what happens when technology meets pure soul — and how we can preserve and reimagine musical heritage with care and creativity.

This isn’t about replacing the past — it’s about honoring it. It’s about capturing the warmth, groove, and emotion that made Earth, Wind & Fire timeless, while showing how AI can extend the legacy of human artistry into the future.

Krea played a key role in shaping the look and feel of this tribute:

🧠 Character & Visual Design: Using Krea’s image generation and motion style transfer, I re-created the band’s stage energy — the lights, outfits, and 70s glow — all infused with a cinematic flair.

🎥 AI-to-Video Workflow: With Krea’s advanced image refinement tools, I designed expressive character poses and transitions that captured that unmistakable “Earth, Wind & Fire” rhythm.

💫 Creative Continuity: By blending Krea’s style referencing with traditional 3D compositing, I maintained a cohesive visual tone that bridges classic funk aesthetics with futuristic AI cinematography.

Krea made it possible to keep the soul of the original alive — not by copying, but by interpreting it through a modern, AI-driven lens.

Krea AI, Freepik, Higgsfield AI, Blender, Ableton Live, Runway, Kling AI, ElevenLabs, GenAI workflows, and open-source models.

🎤 Part of my AI Weekends series — exploring how AI can reimagine culture, music, and storytelling.

If you could bring back one lost song or performance using AI — which would it be? I’d love to hear what the teams at Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Discovery, Midjourney, and Spotify might say.

This is an AI-assisted homage to After The Love Has Gone by Earth, Wind & Fire, created purely for educational and artistic purposes as part of my AI Weekends series. It features excerpts from the original master recording under fair use/fair dealing principles for non-commercial, transformative purposes. All rights to the original composition, performance, and likeness belong to their respective copyright holders.