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Five years after the disappearance of Prince, the exploration of his treasure chest continues and the release of an unpublished album, “Welcome 2 America”, is scheduled for July 30, indicates this Thursday Legacy Recordings, label of Sony.
The title track is being scouted on streaming platforms from this Thursday afternoon. Prince can be heard declaiming, in spoken and sung, that America is “a land of freedom (but also) a home for the slave”.
The album, which dates from 2010, is taken from “The Vault”, the legendary vault of the “Kid of Minneapolis”, nestled in his domain-place of creation-studio in Paisley Park.
It is a cave of fantasies where sleep an indeterminate number of nuggets (demos, albums finished or not, live recordings, collaborations etc). Prince (who died on April 21, 2016 at the age of 57) skillfully maintained the legend around his hidden treasures during his lifetime, through his nebulous statements to the press.
“I haven’t always given labels the best song. There are songs in the ‘Vault’ that no one has ever heard (…) tons of stuff recorded during different time periods”, he launched to Rolling Stone in 2014.
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