Arare 2004 Prince recording that was initially offered as a virtual B-side download for “Cinnamon Girl” exclusively from Prince’s NPG Music Club and eventually as a non-LP bonus track for the UK CD single of “Cinnamon Girl,” but has not been distributed via streaming services until now.
The last posthumous release from the late icon was ‘Welcome 2 America’, in 2021, his first full album of unheard material. NME awarded the record four stars and said that it “speaks to today’s problems and demands to be heard. It’s better to have it now than never. His name was Prince and he was funky, and it seems he has so much more to tell us.”
Prince‘s estate Paisley Park on August 2023 released an expanded reissue of his 1991 album ‘Diamonds And Pearls’.
The new super deluxe format of the record features the original LP remastered for the very first time, as well as 47 previously unreleased audio tracks and over two hours of live filmed concert footage in high definition from Prince’s vault. It will be released on October 27.
Recently the Estate has dropped a pair of songs from Prince’s vault : “7 (E Flat Version),” from 1992, and “All a Share Together Now,” from 2006. The Prince Estate shared the tracks last month with attendees of the Paisley Park Celebration ahead of today’s wide release.
“7” was the third single from Prince’s 1992 album with the New Power Generation, Love Symbol. “All a Share Together Now” had never been previously released in an official capacity.
Last June Paisley Park had crack open his vault of unreleased music during the location’s annual event, Celebration. Scheduled for June 9 through 11, the gathering at the late musician’s famous recording studio, museum, and concert venue in Chanhassen, Minnesota host an exclusive presentation of the music he created prior to his death in 2016, as Rolling Stone report.
“For me personally, as one of the heirs, I can’t speak for all of them, I don’t mind if people hear the small stuff — the little stuff where he’s just sitting there playing with the piano and how he put it together,” Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson told Rolling Stone in 2021. “That might teach some little boy that wants to learn how to put a song together. We never know. Anything and everything, get it out there. If I live 100, 200 years, I would definitely be there helping to oversee getting it out. But Prince’s music will outlive me for sure.”
The vault reportedly holds thousands of unreleased records. In 2021, his estate released the Welcome 2 America, which Prince recorded in 2010 but never released. The music played at the Paisley Park Celebration will only account for a tiny percentage of it.
Prince the Prankster: Bobby Z and More Remember His Humor
To most of the outside world, Prince was shy, standoffish, and barely spoke above a whisper, if he spoke at all. Among friends, he was a comedian with a bottomless bag of gags, pranks and practical jokes.
Sight gags, slapstick, if you tripped it was funny. He would approach you from the left and tap your right shoulder, that was one of his favorites. By Jem Aswad @jemaswad
MARC ANTHONY (Singer/friend)
He was absolutely hysterical. His image was so serious, but he loved to laugh. That’s the first thing that took me aback — how funny and how quick he was. He didn’t trust too many people, but once he felt safe with you, it was some funny shit, man. I remember loving his laugh and loving seeing his face like that, because it was so rare.
