The best entertainer ever, Prince didn’t have until this day, and for dark reasons, ever published a live album. As hungry men, the most resolute fans, introduced by the bootleggers, had thrown themselves on the bootleg "City Lights" (an anthology in a few ten CD, of Prince’s performances live between 1980 and 1986) but the other? Condemned to fold back on a "It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful Night", recorded in 1986 le Zenith France and inauspiciously stranded on "Sign ‘O the Times", or "The Ride" on "Crystal Ball" album, a nd particularly a weak version to regarding the tentacular versions of 1995. therefore, "One Nite Alone... Live! Is destined to them.
Officionados, object that the album makes the beautiful part to the American tour, inferior to the recent European benefits, the presence of a CD bonus exclusively composed of titles played in club is not changing anything, according to them, 'it comes too late'.
But what does 'One Nite Alone... Live! Sound like?'
First, a Jazzy Prince. Freak like Herbie Hancock, as in the 'Sextant' time. (the dizzy spatiality of Renato Neto Solo in 'Xenophobia'); orchestral, such like a postmodern Duke Ellington (the coppers of 'Rainbow Children'); irresistibly smooth crooner - arranger (the raspberry mid-tempo of 'the Other Side Of the Pillow'); or under ascendancy blues, paying its debt to Billie Holiday ('Avalanche'): strong of an encyclopedic learning, Prince cruise the waters of jazz in relaxation, and it is tasty. But another Prince, high in voice, splash all his astral class the three disks of this set. He sings the disappointment in love (the broken voice of 'Nothing Compares To U') or the turgescent desire (the winged coloratura of 'Do Me Baby'), Prince appears again as an immense singer, centering the ebullient flux of his mad expressivity by a disarming technical virtuosity. On the guitar side, Prince is not in rest. It Obviously sounds like Carlos Santana ("Xenophobia"), he likes to go deep down in excessiveness (in the hendrix sly stone and zeppelin way in"Family Name") when he doesn’t spill blood in the James Blood Ulmer way("Rainbow Children"). But all this is nothing compared to the final medley, sumptuous coronation of a glaring set. Disgraced yesterday, the old index, decorated of the virtues of the spoliation"Prince is alone to the piano"sparkles of one thousand colors. And the charm of such "Adores", "Free" or "the Beautiful Ones"to operate again. When will the solo of apocalyptic guitar of "Joy In Repetition" have sounded (recorded live in "the World" NY-NY, and indisputably the summit of this album), one spacy "Girls And Boys" crossed of thechno loops, and a fabulous "We Do This", a funk look of the "Willie the Pimp" from Frank Zappa (all three extra to the summary of the third CD "It Ain’t Over"), how much will they be again to question Prince’s genius? how much will they be to refuse to see in Prince’s work the surest Wall against the artistic uselessness of the contemporary world?
Alain Orlandini

Now,finally someone who actually listens to the music and is not trying to get into stupid things like the name change or his love life.This was a great article which has made me put the cd on earlier than I usually put it on when I get home from work.Thanks for the post.Peace!!!

Orlandini dit pas trop 2 conneries

Please...hit the "Preview Response" button and if it looks like the post has no paragraphs...make some!

Thanks for the info though.

>how much will they be again to question Prince’s genius? how much will they be to refuse to see in Prince’s work the surest Wall against the artistic uselessness of the contemporary world?<

Not quite eloquently stated in the translation, but I really love the reviewer's point here!

Est-ce qu'on pourrait avoir l'article original? Merci!

> Est-ce qu'on pourrait avoir l'article original? Merci!

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Hi !
A. Orlandini is quite quirky Concerning Prince and his music.
Nowadays he is an good mood !

jtgillia said:

...Not quite eloquently. hahahahaha...

There is the comment by Philippe manoeuvre as well, probably the most famous french rock critic and connaisseur, on the second page of Rock&Folk...

To make it quick...he thinks ONAL kicks ass seriously and that nobody else nowadays can come up with something like ONAL.

VINCENT said:

Hi!

Here is the quote of Philippe Manoeuvre :

"tout ceci ne doit pas cacher l'incroyable retour en force/forme du petit prince.

Honnêtement, si quelqu'un nous avait dit que 2002 verrait la résurrection du Nain pourpre de Minneapolis...

Mais le coffret 3-CD est là, officiel, légitime et d'une musicalité si renversante, simple et funky à la fois, déchiré en plus de deux des incroyables solos de guitare
du violet volant, qu'il renvoie le reste de la production mondiale à la décharge.

Prince est de retour, et son triple live, cerise sur le gâteau, est sacrement difficile à localiser. Il va falloir ramer sur le Net, supplier Gibert et les Starters...Franchement on préfère ça à la grosse pile en hyper.

Et on se demandera longtemps si Prince ne fait pas soudain d'aussi bons disques parce que, justement, il n'a plus aucun compte à rendre à un roi du spaghetti surgelé ou de l'internet musclé venu s'encanailler (lui et ses stocks options) dans le rock'n roll. Prince a construit son utopie. Elle est clairement la nôtre, on en redemande."

"and a fabulous "We Do This", a funk look of the "Willie the Pimp" from Frank Zappa "

- Too good to see Prince and Zappa´s names in the same sentence. Two american geniuses.

Great to know someone actually listened to the album for music, and not memories..

« paying its debt to Billie Holiday » : that is one of the most stupid things I've ever readed in a long long time... Prince doesn't “pay” any “debt” to Billie Holiday in "Avalanche". Can you really imagine Prince singing that type of song, and, at the same time, saying to himself « I am paying my debt to Billie Holiday »? This is a proof of a deep misunderstanding of the afro-american music and his evolution.
And by the way, I don't hear James Blood Ulmer in the guitar solo of "The Rainbow Children", nor Frank Zappa's (sublime) "Willie The Pimp" in "We Do This". Alain Orlandini is only able to compare Prince with somebody else – the same old french way to “review” an album... Ok, it's a very positive article, and, at least, Rock & Folk support the music of Prince, but Eric Dahan (in Liberation) wrote a better article – check it now !

Ol' Seraphin is tired, really.