Difference between revisions of "Album: Emancipation"
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|album name = Emancipation | |album name = Emancipation | ||
|album image = [[Image:Emancipation.jpg]] | |album image = [[Image:Emancipation.jpg]] | ||
− | |date = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November | + | |date = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 1996]] |
|length = 60:00; 60:00; 60:00 | |length = 60:00; 60:00; 60:00 | ||
|label = [[NPG Records]] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_Records EMI Records] | |label = [[NPG Records]] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_Records EMI Records] | ||
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|next album link = [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] | |next album link = [[Album: Crystal Ball|Crystal Ball]] | ||
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− | |introduction = <b>Emancipation</b> is the 19th full-length studio album by [[Prince]] (his third using the name [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) and the first album to be released following the end of [[Prince]]'s contract with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Bros.], which ended less than a week prior to this album's release. It is also [[Prince]]'s first released triple album. It was released worldwide in November | + | |introduction = <b>Emancipation</b> is the 19th full-length studio album by [[Prince]] (his third using the name [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) and the first album to be released following the end of [[Prince]]'s contract with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Records Warner Bros.], which ended less than a week prior to this album's release. It is also [[Prince]]'s first released triple album. It was released worldwide in November 1996 (just four months after [[Album: Chaos And Disorder|Chaos And Disorder]]). |
<b>Recording process</b> | <b>Recording process</b> | ||
− | [[Prince]] (as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) began recording songs for the album in January 1995, and work continued on the album until October | + | [[Prince]] (as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) began recording songs for the album in January 1995, and work continued on the album until October 1996. Two early configurations, from July 1995, and a later unknown date in 1995, are known, but both were single-disc sets and should be viewed as works-in-progress (see [[#Quotations and trivia|below]] for details). |
The album was largely a solo work, although it also contains tracks showing [[Prince]]'s transition from the 1993-5 version of [[The New Power Generation]] (with [[Michael B.]], [[Sonny T.]], [[Tommy Barbarella]] and [[Mr. Hayes]]) to the new, 1996, version of the band (containing [[Kirk Johnson]], [[Rhonda Smith]], [[Kat Dyson]], [[Mr. Hayes]] and [[Eric Leeds]]). | The album was largely a solo work, although it also contains tracks showing [[Prince]]'s transition from the 1993-5 version of [[The New Power Generation]] (with [[Michael B.]], [[Sonny T.]], [[Tommy Barbarella]] and [[Mr. Hayes]]) to the new, 1996, version of the band (containing [[Kirk Johnson]], [[Rhonda Smith]], [[Kat Dyson]], [[Mr. Hayes]] and [[Eric Leeds]]). | ||
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|Single = [[Single: Slave|Slave]] <small>promo only</small> | |Single = [[Single: Slave|Slave]] <small>promo only</small> | ||
− | |B-side = [[New World]] <br><small>''Given out as a promo cassette single at [[Paisley Park Studios]] concert, [[09_December | + | |B-side = [[New World]] <br><small>''Given out as a promo cassette single at [[Paisley Park Studios]] concert, [[09_December 1995|9 Dec. 1995]] ''</small> |
|Image = Slave single.png | |Image = Slave single.png | ||
|Link = Single: Slave | |Link = Single: Slave | ||
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|album promotion = [[Prince]] (as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) promoted the album heavily with multiple interviews, television performances and concerts. Click [[All_Concerts#1996|here]] for more details. | |album promotion = [[Prince]] (as [[File: SymbolSmallerBlue.png|link=Alias: Symbol]]) promoted the album heavily with multiple interviews, television performances and concerts. Click [[All_Concerts#1996|here]] for more details. | ||
|trivia = The album marks the first time [[Prince]] released a cover version on a studio release. | |trivia = The album marks the first time [[Prince]] released a cover version on a studio release. | ||
− | * Press release (NPG Records: 22 November | + | * Press release (NPG Records: 22 November 1996): |
<blockquote>''"The Freedom Train Rolls In Minneapolis; Live Performance And Video Simulcast Via Satellite."<br><br>"Chanhassen, Minneapolis - "Free at last! Free at last! God Almighty, we're free at last!" was the chant that began the birth of the Emancipation era. Broadcast live around the world by MTV, VH1 and BET in a rare show of cross-network unity, [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]] delighted millions with a liberating performance at his Paisley Park Studios. celebrating both his artistic freedom and the November 19th release of his new album Emancipation on NPG records, [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]] and his four-piece New Power Generation band performed selections fro mthe new albul on a heavenly all-white soundstage. The half-hour long set included new album tracks "Jam Of The Year", Joan Osbourne's "One Of Us", and "Get Your Groove On", as well as old favorites "Purple Rain" and "If I was Your Girlfriend". The video for the first single, "Betcha By Golly Wow" (directed by [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]]) kicked off the broadcast. Among thos swaying in gleeful attendance and snacking on [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]]'s favorite cereal (Cap'n Crunch) were Boys II Men, Donatella Versace, Phish, Bill Belamy, Mavis Staples and D'Angelo."<br><br>"At a press conference following his performance, [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]] commented:"''<br><small>"The whole process of this record was different. I'm a free man, I'm a happy man, I'm a married man and I'm a clear man. All the tracks on this record are free, happy and clear. making this record was uplifting for me."</small><br><br>''"Emancipation is [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]]'s historic celebration of personal freedom, the album he states he was "born to make", times three: three discs, three hours of love, sex and liberty".''</blockquote> | <blockquote>''"The Freedom Train Rolls In Minneapolis; Live Performance And Video Simulcast Via Satellite."<br><br>"Chanhassen, Minneapolis - "Free at last! Free at last! God Almighty, we're free at last!" was the chant that began the birth of the Emancipation era. Broadcast live around the world by MTV, VH1 and BET in a rare show of cross-network unity, [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]] delighted millions with a liberating performance at his Paisley Park Studios. celebrating both his artistic freedom and the November 19th release of his new album Emancipation on NPG records, [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]] and his four-piece New Power Generation band performed selections fro mthe new albul on a heavenly all-white soundstage. The half-hour long set included new album tracks "Jam Of The Year", Joan Osbourne's "One Of Us", and "Get Your Groove On", as well as old favorites "Purple Rain" and "If I was Your Girlfriend". The video for the first single, "Betcha By Golly Wow" (directed by [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]]) kicked off the broadcast. Among thos swaying in gleeful attendance and snacking on [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]]'s favorite cereal (Cap'n Crunch) were Boys II Men, Donatella Versace, Phish, Bill Belamy, Mavis Staples and D'Angelo."<br><br>"At a press conference following his performance, [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]] commented:"''<br><small>"The whole process of this record was different. I'm a free man, I'm a happy man, I'm a married man and I'm a clear man. All the tracks on this record are free, happy and clear. making this record was uplifting for me."</small><br><br>''"Emancipation is [[Image:SymbolSmaller.png]]'s historic celebration of personal freedom, the album he states he was "born to make", times three: three discs, three hours of love, sex and liberty".''</blockquote> | ||
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