Prince
PRINCE - PIANO & A MICROPHONE 83
The album is a 35 minute recording, thought to be from January 1983. Prince is playing alone at is piano while rehearsing, and jamming, through nine different songs. Three of which were never released until now.
CD
Packaging: Digisleeve / 4 col. CD label
LP
Packaging: single sleeve jacket / inner bag / 180g vinyl
Deluxe CD+LP (Limited Edition)
Packaging: hardback 12” gatefold book with glued pocket on left-hand side holding inner sleeve and 180g LP, plus 12” booklet, with CD held on right-hand side
Booklet: to feature exclusive photos and new liner notes by Prince’s then engineer, Don Batts
RELEASE: 21/9
TRACKLISTING
Medley (LP Side A)
1. 17 Days - a year before Prince recorded his studio version
2. Purple Rain - an early version of what would become one of his biggest tracks
3. A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell cover) - a live favourite
4. Mary Don’t You Weep - 19th century spiritual and played live by Prince sporadically in the 90s
5. Strange Relationship - four years before it would be released on Sign O' The Times
6. International Lover - studio version appears on 1999
7. Wednesday - eventually recorded with Jill Jones on vox, this is a previously unreleased and unbootlegged version with Prince singing
Stand-alone tracks (LP Side B)
8. Cold Coffee & Cocaine - previously unreleased
9. Why The Butterflies - previously unreleased
The album is a 35 minute recording, thought to be from January 1983. Prince is playing alone at is piano while rehearsing, and jamming, through nine different songs. Three of which were never released until now.
CD
Packaging: Digisleeve / 4 col. CD label
LP
Packaging: single sleeve jacket / inner bag / 180g vinyl
Deluxe CD+LP (Limited Edition)
Packaging: hardback 12” gatefold book with glued pocket on left-hand side holding inner sleeve and 180g LP, plus 12” booklet, with CD held on right-hand side
Booklet: to feature exclusive photos and new liner notes by Prince’s then engineer, Don Batts
RELEASE: 21/9
TRACKLISTING
Medley (LP Side A)
1. 17 Days - a year before Prince recorded his studio version
2. Purple Rain - an early version of what would become one of his biggest tracks
3. A Case Of You (Joni Mitchell cover) - a live favourite
4. Mary Don’t You Weep - 19th century spiritual and played live by Prince sporadically in the 90s
5. Strange Relationship - four years before it would be released on Sign O' The Times
6. International Lover - studio version appears on 1999
7. Wednesday - eventually recorded with Jill Jones on vox, this is a previously unreleased and unbootlegged version with Prince singing
Stand-alone tracks (LP Side B)
8. Cold Coffee & Cocaine - previously unreleased
9. Why The Butterflies - previously unreleased
