Most of the Lotus Flow3r album was recorded during 3121
sessions in 2006.
Prince uses old songs from vault most of the time .
What about the new songs,songs recorded
not much before album release.

i wouldn't consider stuff recorded during the 3121 sessions and used as the foundation for an album a few years later as "old" or "vault" material.

do we have any indication that they were even fully formed songs at the point they were recorded? he's historically gone back and reworked rehearsals and jam sessions into songs, even years later. but unless he's specifically aiming the project as an "odds & ends" album, i don't think we really have any justification for calling such recent material stuff from the vault.

I'd think out of all his later albums, Lotusflow3r was the most like a traditionally recorded album he's done. Pretty much all the songs were recorded in a short space of time with the same band - obviously it takes awhile from recording to release and he had 3121/Planet Earth to get out first.

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thebanishedone said:

It's not that odd. Painters and illustrators would be sketching stuff that's non-related to a specific assignment but will keep it because it looks good and might be used later on.

So if he makes some stuff that he likes but doesn't see fit to use in a current project, he probably leaves it in the vault until he thinks it might be the time to dig it up and do something with it.
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thebanishedone said:

Where do you get your information? Most of what you said is way off base.

Prince doesn't use songs from the vault "most of the time" or hardly at all.

Who said "most" of Lotus was recorded in 2006?

And what about new songs? I don't understand if there's supposed to be a question here, or you're making a comment.

ernestsewell said:

The Michael B / Sonny T tracks on Lotusflow4r were recorded in the 3121 sessions in 2005, the rest recorded around 2006/7

Ernest Michael Bland told me that info,so it's hard to say
that what i'm talking is off base.
Former Prince's drummer Michael Bland is on Prince.org
Other former Prince band members i had more then a few conversations are
Andre Cymone,Dez Dickerson,Brown Mark,
Lisa Coleman,Rhonda Smith,Matt Fink and John Blackwell

So the facts i know are hardly off base

And how many Michael B/Sonny tracks are on 3121 in ratio to the non-NPGesque tracks?

What's old? Six weeks? Six months? A year? Two years?

SOTT could be considered old considering how many incarnations it went through and how long it took to get that record out as we know it. Hell, it had a Revolution track on it, and Wendy, Lisa, and Susannah as well. That stuff must have been "old" too, huh?

Lotus Flow3r sounds like it's of a whole, not like separate tracks slapped together. MPLS Sound kind of feels like a collection rather than an album. If these were recorded a few years ago, it makes me wonder how many other albums he could have waiting to be released... or not released.

ernestsewell said:

there's only one on 3121, the title track. that was part of a 10 track session which formed that song, stuff like guitar and planet earth. then in 2006 they re grouped for another session where the lotus flow3r stuff was recorded

The original post is confusing because it's neither a question nor a fully fledged statement.

Yes, some material is beyond the "between-album" timeframe - so what? If Prince feels it stylistically fits, then that's his prerogative.

It's actually amazing to think that some of his newer stuff was recorded many years ago - shows how far ahead he is of the curve (sometimes).

Ya'll are really confusing me... Were the tracks on Lotusflower recorded recently (as in the past two years) or not? Damn the org can be really confusing and misinformed at times...!

poetcorner61 said:

probably half & half