Hello!

There's a TRC review that I found on the Columbus Dispatch website :

http://libpub.dispatch.co...7:16056:8:

SPIRITUAL GIBBERISH MARS INTERESTING PRINCE ALBUM
Thursday, November 22, 2001 FEATURES - WEEKENDER 05

* The Rainbow Children, Prince (NPG Records): What a mishmash. Prince has found some sort of religion, and his new concept album tries to meld together shards of Christianity, humanism and assorted spiritual fragments into an argument about loving one another.

A studio-altered narrator in a deep bass voice appears throughout the album to spout nonsense such as "From all over, the people came 2 do the Work. And with every phrase of the deconstruction, the Everlasting Now became evermore the reality.''

Saddest of all, the high-minded mumbo-jumbo distracts from the most interesting Prince album in ages. Jazzy, free-flowing and soulful, The Rainbow Children shows off Prince's dexterity. He does his best James Brown impression on The Work Pt. 1, a fantastic example of coiled restraint. The Everlasting Now is a funk party that rivals Da Butt for fun, while the keyboard tones of Muse 2 the Pharaoh just ooze smooth R&B.

For all its strengths, The Rainbow Children falls to the fate of most recent Prince albums: His ego and ambition just get in the way of a good time.

-- Rob Messinger