Prince-Welcome 2 America-2LP-FLAC-2021-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Prince
     Title   | Welcome 2 America
     Genre   | R&B                                  Format  | Album
     Source  | Vinyl                                Time    | 54:23
     Label   | NPG Records                          Store   | 2021
     Catalog | 19439859801                          Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 2826 kbps                            Size    | 1151.43 MB
     Freq    | 96.0 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     A1. Welcome 2 America                                           5:23
     A2. Running Game (Son Of A Slave Master)                        4:04
     A3. Born 2 Die                                                  5:03
     A4. 1000 Light Years From Here                                  5:47
     B1. Hot Summer                                                  3:33
     B2. Stand Up And B Strong                                       5:18
     B3. Check The Record                                            3:28
     B4. Same Page, Different Book                                   4:42
     C1. When She Comes                                              4:46
     C2. 1010 (Rin Tin Tin)                                          4:42
     C3. Yes                                                         2:56
     C4. One Day We Will All B Free                                  4:41
 Notes  
     No other artist of the rock & roll era compares to Prince. He was
     the rare combination of a visionary pop conceptualist and master
     musician who could capture the sounds he imagined, a quality that
     fueled his remarkable success in the 1980s. Ideas came to Prince so
     quickly, they couldn't be contained on his own records, either with
     or without his backing band The Revolution. He masterminded albums
     by The Time and Sheila E, and gave away hit songs to the Bangles and
     Sheena Easton, shaping the sound of popular music in the process.
     Prince recorded the 12 songs that comprise the posthumous album
     "Welcome 2 America" back in 2010, polished off some mixes, and
     allegedly completed a sequence, then he set it aside. It's
     impossible to tell if Prince considered the album finished or if he
     planned to release it. He did launch the Welcome 2 tour in December
     2010 but it was in support of "20Ten", an album given away with
     copies of the Daily Mirror in the UK and never officially released
     in the US, and almost no songs from the "Welcome 2 America" sessions
     were played on-stage or leaked from the vaults.
     Te fizzy trifle "Hot Summer" was streamed on the website of local
     radio station 89.3 The Current but that was it. Few Prince fanatics
     were aware of its existence until it was unearthed in 2021 as the
     first release in his estate's deal with Legacy. Complete unreleased
     albums are relatively rare among Prince's known outtakes, so the
     appearance of "Welcome 2 America" was big news. The album itself
     doesn't quite live up to expectations.
     "Welcome 2 America" is essentially the product of Prince giving the
     rhythm section of bassist Tal Wilkenfeld and drummer Chris Coleman a
     test run, leading the pair through chord sequences without singing
     scratch melodies or anything that would give them an idea of a
     finished song. Prince added his vocals later, along with harmonies
     and keyboards from Morris Hayes, who is credited as a co-producer on
     the released product. The results sound every bit as complete as
     either "20Ten" or "Art Official Age" or any other latter-day
     official Prince album.
     It also sounds very much of a piece with the music Prince made
     toward the end of his life: he moves with ease through the
     slipstreams separating funk, soul, and pop, using his guitar as the
     bonding agent between the styles. The opening triptych of "Welcome 2
     America," "Running Game (Son of a Slave Master)," and "Born 2 Die"
     suggests Welcome 2 America may be a thematically weightier album
     than usual from Prince, but by the time "Hot Summer" kicks in, it's
     clear this is a trick of sequencing; the rest of the album is fairly
     standard Prince fare.
     The sequencing doesn't do the album a lot of favors, as it gets the
     proceedings off on a slow foot, but the second half has a distinct
     pulse surfacing on the fuzz-funk of "Check the Record," the sultry
     "When She Comes," and the jazzy struts "Same Page, Different Book,"
     and "1010 (Rin Tin Tin)." Welcome 2 America is still a latter-day
     Prince album, so it's filled with vaguely baffling turns of phrase,
     slick jazz-funk, and covers of 21st century Soul Asylum songs.
     In other words, it's not a buried gem or a return to form but a
     snapshot of an excellent musician having a pretty good run in the
     studio.

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1.1G	total