Album: The Flesh (1986)
{{Unreleased-Album|
|album name = The Flesh
|album image = 
|date = 1986
|label = Paisley Park Records
|studios = Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, USA
|previous year = 1984
|previous album = Album: Vanity 6 (1984)
|previous album link = Untitled second Vanity 6 album
|next year = 1989
|next album = Album: 24 (1989)
|next album link = 24
|introduction = The Flesh is an unreleased EP by The Flesh (essentially made up of Prince and Eric Leeds, as a precursor to Madhouse, with other musicians on three of the four tracks).
The tracks included were all jazz-funk instrumentals, and were mostly improvised during the sessions. Eric Leeds was featured prominently, and the plan was to not include mention of Prince’s input upon the EP’s release (as was the case with the later Madhouse albums).
None of the tracks from the EP have been released, although 30 seconds of Junk Music can be heard in Under The Cherry Moon, in the scene where Christopher Tracy races against Mary Sharon on the horse race track.
Sessions and compiling
The were a couple of different tracking sessions at Sunset Sound - Studio 3 in Hollywood, California, that yielded material for The Flesh. First on [Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/December 26|26 December 1985]] Prince]] (with Eric Leeds overdubbing a day later) recorded A Couple Miles and Can I Play With U?, sort of a precursor to the sessions that would follow.
On 26 December 1985 there was the so called ‘Paisley Jam’ an improvised session focused on instrumental jazz-funk yielding Slaughterhouse, U Just Can’t Stop, Run Amok, Mobile, Madrid, Breathless, High Calonic and 12 Keys.
A week later, on 5 January 1986, There was another such session, this one titled ‘Everybody’s Jam’. This yielded Groove In C Minor, Slow Groove In G Major, Groove In G♭Minor, Groove On ‘4 Love’ In B♭, Groove On ‘4 Love’ In Gm♭, Junk Music, Up From Below, [[Junk Music|Y'All Want Some More?
Conversation Piece was recorded separately on 12 January 1986, and became the final The Flesh track.
Songs were edited in the days following the jam sessions and an EP was compiled on 22 January 1986. However the idea of a release as or by The Flesh was abandoned shortly after, possibly because the Under The Cherry Moon film and other projects demanded Prince’s full attention.
Three of the four tracks selected for the EP were from the ‘Everybody’s Jam’ on 5 January 1986, and in fact all parts of the originally over an hour long Junk Music: Junk Music, Up From Below and Y'All Want Some More?.
|format = EP
|tracklisting =
- Side 1:
- Side 2:
|credits = All songs written by Prince (assumed) |* comment = |musicians = Prince - drums on Junk Music, Up From Below and Y'All Want Some More?, all instruments, except where noted, on Conversation Piece
- Eric Leeds - saxophone
- Sheila E. - percussion on Junk Music, Up From Below and Y'All Want Some More?
- Jonathan Melvoin - percussion on Junk Music, Up From Below and Y'All Want Some More?
- Lisa Coleman - piano on Junk Music, Up From Below and Y'All Want Some More?
- Wendy Melvoin - guitar on Junk Music, Up From Below and Y'All Want Some More?
- Levi Seacer, Jr. - bass guitar on Junk Music, Up From Below and Y'All Want Some More?
|production = Prince - producer (assumed)
- Other production details unknown
|see also = ! colspan="2" align="left" style="font-size:100%;color:#AB3E00"| See also
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| Under The Cherry Moon (film) |
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|trivia = |alternative = |references = The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004) |categories = }}
