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Kamasutra is the second track on the The NPG Orchestra’s first and only album Kamasutra, initially released on cassette in 1997 (the album was later included as a bonus CD on the direct order version of Crystal Ball, Prince’s 20th album Crystal Ball, the fourth album to be credited to  ). Two years previously, however, a 0:34 excerpt was included as the 16th and final track on the NPG Records Sampler Experience cassette given to some concertgoers on The Ultimate Live Experience tour, featuring various clips of "upcoming releases".
Basic tracking dates are unknown, but it is likely that the track was recorded between 1994 - early 1995 at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota, with orchestral overdubs by Clare Fischer’s orchestra at Martinsound Studio, Alhambra, California.
The track contains an eight-note motif that is repeated on later tracks on the album (which was intended as one full-length "opus"). Its title is taken from the Kama Sutra, considered to be the most important work in a long line of Indian erotic literature, written by the Hindu philosopher Vātsyāyana (the Kama Sutra was previously mentioned by Prince in We Can Fuck (later released as We Can Funk)).
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Recording Information
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Recording Sessions
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| Date
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Studio
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Additional info
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| Late 1994
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Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
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Tracking
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| January 1995
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Martinsound Studio,
Alhambra, CA, USA
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Orchestral overdubs by Clare Fischer’s orchestra
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| 1995-1996
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Paisley Park Studios,
Chanhassen, MN, USA
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Additional recording (renamed Seventeen)
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Recording Personnel
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- Orchestral players:
- Morris Repass, Assa Drori, Isabelle Daskoff, Edward P. Greene, Harry Scorzo, Francine Walsh, Robert Lezin, Norma Leonard, Anita A. Thompson, Pamela Gates, Russel Cantor, Betty Byers, Robert Sushel, Don Palmer, Ross Shub, Pamela Tomkins, Yvette Devereaux, Calabria McChesney, Marshall Daniel Thomason, Marilyn Baker, Harry Shirinian, Hershel Wise, Peter Hatch, Suzanna Giordano, Benjamin Simon, James V. Ross, Gladys Secunda, Frederick Seykora, Raymond Kelley, Marie Fera, Douglas Davis, Judith Johnson, Cecilia Tsan, David Randall Stone, Morton Klanfer, James D. Hughart, Don Shelton, Daniel L. Higgins, Lisa Edelstein, James R. Walker, C. Terry Harrington, Jack Mimitz, Charles Boito, Charles A Coker, Jenice Rosen, Robert D. Carr, Dave Duke, Joseph Meyer, Marilyn L. Johnson, Alexander P. Iles, Leslie K. Benedict, Brent Fischer, Gerald Vinci, Mari Tsumara, Israel Baker, Yoko Matsuda, Murry Adler, Jorge Moraga, Carole Mukogawa, Margot MacLaine, Nancy Roth, Anne Karam, Judith Johnson, Arni Egilson, Richard Mitchell, Jon C. Clark, John F. Reilly, John J. Mitchell, Robert Tricarico, Yvonne Moriarty, Andrew M. Martin, Richard Hamilton, Larry Bunker, Thomas John Ranier, Dennis Budimer, G. Levant (full breakdown of instruments to follow)
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Versions
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Released Versions
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Sampled, Referred to, Quoted in...
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Unreleased Versions
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| Title
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Version
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Additional Info
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| Seventeen
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Studio
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Unreleased Madhouse version
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