A beforehand unheard home studio cassette recording of Prince, Piano & A Microphone 1983, has lastly surfaced.
Rolling out throughout digital music companies at midnight, the intimate nine-track undertaking sees the late legend engaged on such future classics as “17 Days” and “Purple Rain”, “Strange Relationship” and “Mary Don’t You Weep,” which seems in Spike Lee’s new movie BlackKklansman.
Revolution keyboardist Lisa Coleman wrote some liner notes for the brand new launch, and she or he talked with Billboard in regards to the album’s origins. “Listening to this tape is kind of like watching a soccer player warm up with a soccer ball — they just kick it around and bounce it off all the different parts of their body,” she says. “They’re focusing. They’re alone, even though it’s a team sport. In his mind he was always creating for huge audiences and playing to the world, but at this moment it’s just him and the songs and it feels like just you he’s talking to. It’s so intimate. It’s really just him and a piano.”
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