| While exact recording dates are not known, basic tracking took place in November 2004, during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota that also yielded [[3121]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Wall Of Berlin]], [[Planet Earth]], [[Guitar]] and a song titled [[Shameless]] as well as two or three others. <br>
| | Basic tracking took place on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], during a three-and-a-half hour session with [[Michael B.]] on drums and [[Sonny T.]] on bass at [[Paisley Park Studios]] in Chanhassen, Minnesota that also yielded [[3121]], [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], [[Colonized Mind]], [[Love Like Jazz]], [[Wall Of Berlin]], [[Planet Earth]], [[Guitar]] and a song titled [[Shameless]] as well as two or three others. <br> |
| A tape photographed in [[Prince]]'s vault at [[Paisley Park Studios]] lists [[Wall Of Berlin]] as [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], which alludes this is the exact date for all of the songs in this sessions. <br> In an August 2006 [http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2006/08/michael-bland-2/#.VD7L3IvF_HI interview], [[Michael B.]] said [they recorded] eleven or twelve tracks in three and a half hours that night. On a different occasion he later indicated that this was the last recording session they did with [[Prince]] for a while after that.<br> | | A tape photographed in [[Prince]]'s vault at [[Paisley Park Studios]] lists [[Wall Of Berlin]] as [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/November_19|19 November 2004]], which alludes this is the exact date for all of the songs in this sessions. <br> In an August 2006 [http://www.moderndrummer.com/site/2006/08/michael-bland-2/#.VD7L3IvF_HI interview], [[Michael B.]] said [they recorded] eleven or twelve tracks in three and a half hours that night. On a different occasion he later indicated that this was the last recording session they did with [[Prince]] for a while after that.<br> |
| The music is also used in the track's counterpart [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], which was likely recorded at the same time, and lyrics included in that track, stating "From the lotus flower..." were sampled in [[3121]], supporting the theory that these tracks were recorded in 2005. It is not known if further work was done on the track later. | | The music is also used in the track's counterpart [[...Back 2 The Lotus]], which was likely recorded at the same time, and lyrics included in that track, stating "From the lotus flower..." were sampled in [[3121]], supporting the theory that these tracks were recorded in 2005. It is not known if further work was done on the track later. |