The Prince Estate has officially shared two previously unreleased recordings found in His Royal Badness’ fabled “Vault.”
event. Attendees each received a cassette-shaped USB key containing the two tracks.
In the lower key, the alternate version of “7” sounds dystopic even as Prince describes a utopian future. Despite the minor-key chorus, there was a sense of hope . But here, amid industrial whirring instead of Indian instruments, when Prince sings about his challengers accusing him, and his compatriots of speaking “not of love, only blasphemy,” you feel a darkness in his heart — a contempt for his doubters. Of course, that didn’t stop him from jamming a funky slap-bass solo at the end.
“All a Share Together Now” bears more of a jazzy, modern R&B feel just as you’d expect from the period between. Prince recorded the moody track’s descending bass line, springy guitar, and Biblical story on Sept. 4, 2006. “The scriptures teach us, no matter how long,” he sings, “the debt of the ones before us must be paid, all a share together now.”
But while Prince sings about people working in God’s name, the story takes a turn about two thirds of the way through, as he describes a woman who picks a guy out of a room with a plot to end his joy and laughter. “Bass!” Prince shouts, a bit like Chuck D. “She tried to stop the
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