Difference between revisions of "Album: Xpectation"

3 December 2015 (Tidal download reissue)

• None.

• Unknown date 2002, Xenophobia configuration

The album had previously been titled Xenophobia, but the title track was removed (perhaps because a live version of the track was included on One Nite Alone... Live!), and the album was renamed. It is unclear why or when this took place. The tracklisting for Xenophobia was as follows:

1. Xenophobia
2. Xhalation
3. Xcogitate
4. Xemplify
5. Xpectation
6. Xotica
7. Xogenous
8. Xpand
9. Xosphere
10. Xpedition

In 2015, the album was re-released on the Tidal music service, initially only to stream before a download store was opened three months later, offering the album in mp3 and flac files.

In 2004, it was released to purchase for members and non-members alike as part of the NPG Music Club’s Musicology Download Store. There has been no wider retail release.

Sessions and compiling

Sessions for the album took place in Autumn 2001, at Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA, with saxophone overdubs by Candy Dulfer taking place in December 2001, also at Paisley Park Studios. Vanessa Mae’s violon parts were also recorded at Paisley Park and overdubbed to the existing tracks. The album was registered at the Library of Congress on 19 February 2002.

The album was initially titled Xenophobia until the title track was removed, perhaps because of its inclusion on the album One Nite Alone... Live!.

Promotion

No singles were released from the album, and the album was not eligible for any charts as it was not available on the commercial markets measured by charts.

This album have never been released on CD format.

The digital version is the original issue.

1. Xhalation (2:04)
2. Xcogitate (3:34)
3. Xemplify (5:53)
4. Xpectation (4:01)
5. Xotica (3:05)
6. Xogenous (4:12)
7. Xpand (6:11)
8. Xosphere (3:34)
9. Xpedition (8:24)

All songs assumed to be written by Prince (no writing credits officially given).

• Prince - keyboards and guitar
• John Blackwell - drums on Xcogitate, Xemplify, Xpectation, Xotica, Xogenous, Xpand, Xosphere and Xpedition
• Rhonda Smith - bass guitar on Xcogitate, Xemplify, Xpectation, Xotica, Xogenous, Xpand, Xosphere and Xpedition
• Candy Dulfer - acoustic and electric saxophone on Xcogitate, Xemplify, Xpectation, Xotica, Xogenous, Xpand, Xosphere and Xpedition
• Vanessa Mae - violin on Xhalation, Xcogitate, Xemplify, Xpectation, Xogenous, Xosphere and Xpedition
• "Silence - itself"

• Prince - producer and arranger (no production credits officially given)
• No other production credits available.

• none.

• None, although a few of the tracks had been played during aftershows on the One Nite Alone... Tour, which ended shortly before the album’s release.

• This album was placed online for download just over two weeks after the One Nite Alone... Live! 3CD box-set was released, and within two days of this release, the NPG Music Club offered the tracks that would eventually be collected as C-Note for individual download.
• Xpectation was rumored for a CD release on the Blue Note Records label, but it is not known how serious this rumor was or how close this came to a wider release.
• The initial download contained an audible skip in the track Xotica, but this was quickly rectified and a new version uploaded.
• When he invited Vanessa Mae to come play with him, Prince asked her to listen to some Weather Report albums and Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters before the sessions.
• The New directions in music subtitle or a variant also appears on Madhouse’s second and final album 16 in 1987 and N.E.W.S. in 2003.

• The Vault: The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince (2004)
• Library of congress: Xenophobia; By Prince Rogers Nelson / Registration number : SRu000455580 (2002)