The report is in french , maybe somebody can translate it in english...

Comme promis, et en exclusivité pour Remix Tangentiel, voici le compte-rendu exceptionnel de notre vieil ami de Saint-Paul, Peter Cato, qui – le veinard ! – a assisté il y a quelques jours à un concert très, très privé de Prince et son NPG en son antre de Paisley Park…
« Un grand merci, tout d’abord, à mon “hôte” Frédéric Goaty, qui m’invite une fois de plus, un an et demi après mon compte-rendu nostalgique de la seule visite de Miles Davis à Paisley Park, le jour de l’an 1988 [ndlr – Jazz Magazine n°519, octobre 2001], à exprimer mon admiration pour l’infatigable Prince. Je dois avouer que même si j’ai eu la chance d’assister depuis plus de vingt ans à de nombreux concerts de Prince aux quatre coins des Etats-Unis et en Europe, celui auquel j’ai pu assister le samedi 8 mars dernier – grâce à l’amicale complicité d’une collaboratrice du “Boss” local (un immense special thanks to her…) – m’a époustouflé comme rarement ! Si les prochains concerts de Prince ressemblent à cette fantastique performance (répétition pour une future tournée pour la promotion d’un futur disque ? nul ne le sait encore…), l’an 2003 sera encore plus excitant que 2002 !
Faite plutôt rare : le concert a commencé à 23 h, ce qui est étonnamment tôt pour un couche-tard comme Prince… Il y a à peine 200 personnes dans la grande salle, celle-là même où, l’an dernier, il a donné lors de sa troisième Celebration un inoubliable concert acoustique. Je reconnais quelques amis, et notamment Sara Remke, co-propriétaire du café Black Dog, qui ne cesse d’organiser des formidables “anti-war parties” où chacun vient exprimer son dégout face aux horribles actions de notre président non-élu ; Ricky Peterson (toujours aussi vif!) ; Scottie Pakulski (qui disparaîtra vite pour s’en aller derrière la console s’occuper du son) ; le propriétaire du Bunker (que je salue mais dont je ne me souviens plus le nom !), LE club de Minneapolis (où Michael Bland et Sonny Thompson se produisent chaque lundi) et James Diers (chanteur du groupe Love-Cars et manager du formidable trio jazz Happy Apple, nos “jazz stars” locales)… Durant tout le concert – qui ressemblait plus, il est vrai, à une répétition “live” très, très au point… –, Prince n’a quasiment pas parlé, ne lâchant çà et là que quelques timides “thank you”, “D’ya like this one ?”, “You had forgotten that song, uh uh ?”, etc.
Le NPG version 2002 – Renato Neto aux claviers, Ronda Smith à la basse et John Blackwell à la batterie – est désormais augmenté des Hornheads (quelle joie de retrouver ces virtuoses toujours aussi jazzy-funky !), d’Esther Godinez (percussionniste installé à Minneapolis, amie d’enfance de Sheila E. et “ex” du groupe de George Benson), d’Eric Leeds et d’Atlanta Bliss (welcome back !) et d’une nouvelle guitariste rythmique, Ella King, dont on dit qu’elle vient de Los Angeles où elle a travaillé plusieurs années durant en tant que session woman pour la télévision et le cinéma.
A l’exception de quelques extraits des récents “The Rainbow Children” (Mellow, Family Name, The Work) et “One Nite Alone” (Have A Heart, Avalanche), le show n’était constitué que de nouveaux morceaux – sans doute ceux de son futur album dont on il se murmure déjà qu’il ne s’intitulerait plus “2000 Free : The Revelation Year” mais (j’ai du mal à le croire, mais pourquoi pas…) “The Purple House” –, de “nouvelles” reprises et de vieux standards réarrangés.
Premier constat : le son d’ensemble est proche de celui de la tournée “One Nite Alone”, mais le funk et le blues sont encore plus présents. La preuve : Prince et son presque-big band ont ouvert les festivités avec une version incroyablement métamorphosée de Kiss, qui ressemble désormais à un blues lancinant couronné d’une section de cuivre scintillante. (On a l’impression que Prince est reparti de la démo originale de ce morceau, qu’il a complètement oublié la version de “Parade” pour réinventer quelque chose de nouveau, d’incroyablement moderne et traditionnel à la fois.) A l’inverse, Shy est étonnamment accéléré, et John Blackwell effectue un travail saisissant de swing et de groove mêlés. Mais ce n’est pas tout : Dark, I Wish U Heaven, Walk Don’t Walk, Willing & Able, Come (dont les paroles ont évidemment été “radoucies”…), When U Love Somebody, I Feel For You, Little Red Corvette, Moonbeam Levels (oui !) et Paisley Park bénéficient aussi d’un formidable travail de réécriture, à l’instar des trois étonnantes reprises qui ont pimenté le concert – Love Is The Answer de Todd Rundgren (très proche de la version originale de 1977 enregistré par le groupe de Todd, Utopia, in “Oops ! Wrong Planet”), Jesus de Curtis Mayfield (“There’s No Place Like America Today”, 1975) et Too High de Stevie Wonder (“Innervisions”, 1973), dont on jurerait qu’elle avait été écrite pour Prince…
Enfin, nous avons eu la chance de découvrir six nouveaux morceaux – The War Script, Love Stories, I Ain’t No Fool, Incantation, The Silent Majority et Wow.
The War Script est l’une des chansons les plus “concernées” jamais jamais composées par Prince : sur un fond très rock, voire presque hard-rock (guitares distordues, Blackwell “johnbonhamesque”, orgue en ébullition), il scande sa colère et ses peurs – à peu à la manière d’un Saul Williams – face au bellicisme actuel du gouvernement Bush. S’il l’entend un jour (rien n’est moins sûr…), George ne va pas aimer. En revanche, vous, vous allez adorer !
Love Stories est une étrange chanson d’amour triste teintée de chromatismes électroniques, répétitive, dansante, qui sonne finalement comme une formidable outtake de “1999” et, surtout, un tube en puissance – si seulement cette chanson pouvait paraître rapidement et bénéficier ne serait-ce que qu’un peu de promotion radio…
I Ain’t No Fool n’est pas très éloignée de Love Stories, quoique plus chaleureuse, plus r’n’b. Là encore, Prince, sur un mode plus ironique, nous dit sa colère (ou plutôt son dépit) concernant la politique intérieure appliquée dans son pays. Prince, nouveau chanteur engagé ?
Incantation est une éblouissante suite instrumentale en trois parties – la dernière est franchement décapante – qui donne l’occasion à tous les souffleurs de donner le meilleur d’eux-mêmes. Les fans de Weather Report et du Miles des années 72-75 ne devraient pas rester indifférents… Et Prince lâche un solo de guitare ramassé et explosif. (Peu d’avenir radio pour ce morceau en revanche…)
The Silent Majority est une ballade sombre dont le texte, une fois de plus très engagé, raille la paranoïa américaine, qu’elle soit blanche ou noire. Encore un titre qui, s’il finit par être publié, ne devrait laisser personne indifférent. (A vrai dire, cette chanson m’a fait penser à la scène des “fuck you’s” dans le dernier film Spike Lee…)
Wow, enfin, est une pop song gospel à la Forever In My Life avec laquelle Prince a conclu la soirée, à 1h15 précises. Impossible, à l’heure actuelle, de dire si les prochains concerts de l’Artiste ressembleront à celui-ci, si le set list sera identique, et même si les musiciens du NPG seront ceux qui étaient là ce soir-là… Tout ce qu’on a réussi à apprendre (toujours grâce à notre amie…), c’est que le site du Music Club était actuellement “under reconstruction” (l’“experience.03” sera, nous a-t-on promis, exceptionnelle), que le nouvel album (évoqué plus haut) était donc déjà terminé et qu’il devrait paraître au mois de juin, quand Prince fera semblant de ne pas fêter ses 25 ans de carrière et ses 45 ans tout court tout en les fêtant… »

© 2003 Peter Cato

An assistant of Prince said that the npgmc 2003 is still "under reconstruction" and the new album will b out in june!

TRANSLATE! TRANSLATE! FAST!

Has anyone actually been there?

BTW, here's the link:

http://www.jazzmagazine.c...tiel15.htm

My Father's Mother was French so i think i can translate this. It says that Prince is getting ready to jam at Paisley Park and that he'll b FUNKIER than ever!!! The trucks seen by the Park lately are unloading the new decorations.

Thanks, but unfortunately that's not all of course!

mzflash said:

Thanks, mzflash!

:

Hope the doom & gloomers and those going around predicting P's retirement have lots of room for their crow pie!

new gig at Paisely the 8th of March ...with new additional musicians, ...
promise of a `exceptional year 2003` concerning NPG MUSICLUB ...and .maybe something else to come in june 2003 ...
lucky you .
Corinne...email me if you read this ...

calldapplwondery83 said:

Shhh. We don't want to spoil the surprise.

wishin i knew french...

I put the text into Babelfish and though the result is messed up once translated, you can still get a bit more of a gist of what the article says:
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As promised, and of exclusiveness for Tangential Remix, here the exceptional report of our old friend of Saint-Paul, Peter Cato, who? the lucky devil! assisted a few days ago with a concert very, very private of Prince and its NPG in his cave of Paisley Park?
"large a mercy, all d?abord, with my?hôte? Frederic Goaty, who m?invite once more, a year and half after my nostalgic report of the only visit of Davis Miles in Paisley Park, the day of l?an 1988 [ note? Jazz Magazine n°519, 2001] October , to express my admiration for l?infatigable Prince. I have had to acknowledge that even if j?ai have the chance d?assister for more than twenty years to many concerts of Prince to the four corners of the United States and in Europe, that to which j?ai been able to assist saturdays last 8 March? thanks to l?amicale collaborator complicity d?une of the?Boss? room (immense special a thanks to her ?) m?a époustouflé like seldom! If the next concerts of Prince resemble this fantastic performance (repetition for a future round for promotion d?un future disc? no one does not know it yet?), l?an 2003 will be even more exciting that 2002!
Made rather rare: did the concert start to 23 H, which is surprisingly early for a late bedder as Prince? There are hardly 200 people in the large room, that one even where, l?an last, it gave at the time of its third Celebration an unforgettable acoustic concert. I recognize some friends, and in particular Sara Remke , joint owner of the coffee Black Dog , which does not cease d?organiser formidable?anti-war left? where each one comes to express its dégout vis-a-vis the horrible actions of our president not-elected official; Ricky Peterson (always also sharp!) Scottie Pakulski (which will quickly disappear for s?en to go behind the console s?occuper of the sound); the owner of the Bunker (which I greet but which I do not remember any more the name!), Do the club of Minneapolis (where Michael Bland and Sonny Thompson occur each Monday) and James Diers (singer of the Coil-Bus group and manager of the formidable trio jazz Happy APPLE, our?jazz stars? local)? During all the concert? who resembled a?live repetition more admittedly? very, very at the point? Prince n?a almost not spoken, releasing that and there only some shy persons ?thank you?, like this one??, had forgotten that song, uh uh?? , etc.
The NPG version 2002? Renato Neto with the keyboards, Ronda Smith with low and John Blackwell with the battery? from now on is increased by Hornheads (which joy of finding these virtuosos always also jazzy-funky!), D? Esther Godinez (percussionnist installed with Minneapolis, friendly d?enfance of Sheila E and?ex? group of George Benson), D? Eric Leeds and D? Atlanta Bliss (welcome back!) and d?une new rhythmic guitarist, Ella King , which one known as qu?elle comes from Los Angeles where it worked several years lasting as a session woman for television and the cinema.
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"Willing & Whitebait"

I dated her once...

6 news songs were played: The War Script, Love Stories, I Ain’t No Fool, Incantation, The Silent Majority and Wow.

The War Script is an engaged song , it's a rock song with distord guitar , Blackwell play like John Bonham (Led Zep) and organ on fire.Prince is angry against the Bush governement.


Love Stories is a strange sad love song with a lot of electronic sounds like in the 1999 era.That's a hit!

…
I Ain’t No Fool is quit like "love stories" but with more warm.Prince is still angry.


Incantation is a fantastic instrumentale-suite in 3 parts.The last part blow!


The Silent Majority is a dark ballad , about the paranoia in America.

Wow, is a pop song à la "4-ever in my life"

AmethystAngelMN said:[quote]I put the text into Babelfish and though the result is messed up once translated, you can still get a bit more of a gist of what the article says:
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If the next concerts of Prince resemble this fantastic performance (repetition for a future round for promotion d?un future disc? no one does not know it yet?), l?an 2003 will be even more exciting that 2002!

Thanks AmethystAngelMN. This translation confirms our suspicions.

Thanks!

Wow is different to the I'll Do Anything "Wow"?

Two words leap out at me in this article.

They are: MOONBEAM LEVELS





Oh yeah.

When was this gig?

Why haven't there been any other reports?

MiaBocca said:

It seems to have taken place on Saturday, March 8, 2003, and was made up of VIP and local Mpls industry types and friends and consisted of "hardly 200 people".

This is from what I can tell from the article, at least..

jimipaisley said:

This better be true cuz otherwise I've just creamed in my
pants on a fake report.

IstenSzek said:

I know.

If this report turns out to be a hoax I'm going to go into convulsions.


,
[This message was edited Thu Mar 27 6:24:27 PST 2003 by AmethystAngelMN]

AmethystAngelMN said:

too right - exactly my thoughts...perhaps a legit release is imminent!!!

John Blackwell set his organ on fire??? I've heard of war protests, but that's taking it too far.

AmethystAngelMN said:

Wasn't that album title "2000 Free: The Revelation Year"
already reported on here some time ago.

I don't know anymore. The general verdict seemed to be
that it was a fake. But now I'm doubting again.

Please let this be true. Sounds like a very interesting
new project with lots of political input and some heavy
guitar work and 1999 era electronics.

I don't care what other people say, I always like when
Prince comments on social or political issues. For me,
"avalanche" was one of the best songs from the npgmc
this far.

Glad that I can read freanch. I´m so excited!

A ray of hope splits my darkened sky

OMG!

Please be true, please be true!

Here's a translation that's a little bit easier to read than the other one:

"As promised, and exclusively for Remix Tangentiel, here the exceptional report of our old friend of St. Paul, Peter Cato, who – the lucky one! – attended there is some days to a concert very, very deprived Prince and his NPG in his den of Paisley Park… « A big one thank-you, all d’abord, to my “host” Frédéric Goaty, that m’invite a time of more, a year and half after my nostalgic report of the only visit of Miles Davis to Paisley Park, the day of l’an 1988 [editor's note – Jazz Magazine n°519, October2001], to express my admiration for l’infatigable Prince. I must acknowledge that even if had j’ai luck d’assister since more than twenty years to many concerts of Prince to the four corners of the United States and in Europe, the one to which one been able j’ai to attend the Saturday 8 last March – thanks to l’amicale complicity dune collaboratrice of the “slave over” local (an immense special thanks to her…) – my époustouflé as rarely! If the next concerts of Prince resemble this fantastic performance (repetition for a future one turned for the promotion d’un future disc? any does not know it again…), l’an 2003 will be again more exciting than 2002! Done rather rare: the concert began to 23 h, this that is étonnamment early for a layer late as Prince… there is to pains 200 persons in the big room, that one even where, last l’an, it gave at the time of his third Celebration an unforgettable acoustic concert. I recognize some friends, and notably Sara Remke, co-propriétaire of coffee Black Dog, that does not stop d’organiser of the formidable left “anti war” where each coming to express his dégout facing the horrible actions of our non elected president; Ricky Peterson (always lively so!) ; Scottie Pakulski (that will disappear fast for s’en to go behind the console s’occuper of the sound); the owner of the Bunker (that I greet but of which I do not remember more the name!), THE club of Minneapolis (where Michael Bland and Sonny Thompson produce themselves every Monday) and James Diers (singer of the group Coils For and manage formidable trio jazz Happy Apple, our “jazz stars” local)… During all theWho resembled more, it true, to a repetition “live” very, very to the point… –, Prince n’a practically did not speak, not loosening çà and there than some shy ones “thank you”, “D’ya like this one? ”, “You had forgotten that song, uh uh? ”, etc. The NPG version 2002 – Renato Neto to the keyboards, Ronda Smith to the low one and John Blackwell to the battery – henceforth is increased Hornheads (which joy to rediscover these virtuoses always also jazzy-funky!), d’Esther Godinez (installed percussionniste to Minneapolis, girlfriend d’enfance of Sheila E. and “former” group of George Benson), d’Eric Leeds and d’Atlanta Bliss (welcome back!) and dune new guitariste rhythmic, Ella King, of which oneSaid qu’elle comes from where she worked several years during as a session woman for the television and the movie. To l’exception of some extracts of the recent ones “The Rainbow Children” (Mellow, Family Name, The Work) and “Born One Alone” (Have HAS Heart, Avalanche), the show n’était constituted that again pieces – doubtless those of his future album of which one it murmurs himself already qu’il not s’intitulerait more “2000 Free: The Revelation Year” but (j’ai of the evil to believe it, but why not…) “The Purple House” –, of “new”Resumed and of standard old réarrangés. First report: the sound d’ensemble near of the one of the turned “Born One Alone”, but the funk and the blues are again more presents. The proof: Prince and his almost big band opened the festivités with a version unbelievably métamorphosée of Kiss, that resembles henceforth to a nagging crowned blues dune section copper sparkling. (One has l’impression that Prince is set off again original démo of this piece, qu’il completely forgot the version of “Parades” to reinvent something new, modern and traditional d’incroyablement at once.) To l’inverse, Shy is accelerated étonnamment, and John Blackwell effectuates a work seizing swing and of mixed groove. But this n’est not the whole Dark, I'S Wish U Heaven, Walk of which Walk, Willing & Able, Come (of which the words evidently were “radoucies”…), When U Coils Somebody, I'S Feel For You, Little Red Corvette, Moonbeam Levels (yes!) and Paisley Park profit also formidable d’un work of réécriture, to l’instar of the three astonishing returns that spiced with chili the concert – Coils I's The Answer ofTodd Rundgren (very near of the original version of 1977 recorded one by the group of Todd, Utopia, in “Oops! Wrong Planet”), Jesus of Curtis Mayfield (“There’s No Places Like America Today”, 1975) and Too High of Stevie Wonder (“Innervisions”, 1973), of which one would swear qu’elle had been written for Prince… at last, we had the luck to discover six new pieces – The War Script, Coils Stories, I'S Ain’t No Fool, Incantation, The Silent Majority and Wow. The War Script moon of the songs the more “concerned” never never composed by Prince: on a very rock bottom, indeed almost hard-rock (contorted guitares, Blackwell “johnbonhamesque”, organ in boiling), it scande his anger and its fears – to little to the manner d’un Saul Williams – facing the current bellicisme of the Bush administration. S’il l’entend a day (nothing less sure n’est…), George will not like. On the other hand, you, you will worship! Coil Stories a strange song d’amour sad tinged electronic, repetitive chromatismes, dancing, that sounds finally as a formidable outtake of “1999” and, especially, a tube in power – so only this song could appear quickly and profit not few qu’un promotion radio… I'S Ain’t No Fool n’est very removed from Coils Stories, although warmer, more r’n’b. There again, Prince, on a method more ironic, we says his anger (or rather his vexation) concerning the political applied interior in
his country. Prince, engaged new singer? Incantation is a dazzling instrumental continuation in three parties – the last one is frank abrasive – that gives l’occasion to all the souffleurs to give the better d’eux very one. The fans of Weather Continuation and Miles of the years 72-75 not steps should remain indifferent… And Prince loosens a solo of collected and explosive guitare. (Little d’avenir radio for this piece on the other hand…) The Silent Majority a dark ballad of which the text, a time of more very engaged, scoffs at the American paranoïa, qu’elle be white or black. Again a title that, s’il ends up to be published, should not leave indifferent person. (Has true to say, this song my fact to think of the scene of the “fuck you’s” in the last film Spike It…) Wow, at last, is a pop song gospel to the Forever In My Life with which one Prince concluded the evening, to 1h15 precise. Impossible, to current l’heure, to say if the next concerts of l’Artiste will resemble this one, if the set list will be identical, and even if the musicians of the NPG will be those that were there this evening là… All this qu’on succeeded learning (always thanks to our girlfriend…), c’est that the site of the Music Club was currently “under reconstruction” (l’“experience.03” will be, we one has promised, exceptional), that the new albumwas therefore already finished and qu’il should
appear to the month of June, when Prince will pretend not to celebrate its 25 years of career and its 45 years all short one all while the party…"

Sure sounds like a dreamgig to me, what a nice setlist! The new band is even more bluesy and funky according to the article, a new guitarplayer and percussionist are added, as well as Atlanta Bliss! I hope Prince will tour again soon!

IstenSzek said:

Yes, I remember reading that here too. I tried to find the thread about it but couldn't.

And I doubted it then, as well, but now...weell...




Agree with all the above.

I really reallly really hope with all my heart this album pans out to be true. It has all the elements of being totally FANTASTIC.

OK, first I´ve got to say that I´m neither french nor english and I know both of those languages only from school. But I´m trying to translate that for you. Here are the first few sentences, now I´m starting to translate the rest:

"First a big thank you to my host Frederic Goaty, who invited me one more time, one year and a half after my nostalgic report of the only visit that Miles Davis ever gave to Paisley Park on new years eve 1998 (Jazz Magazine no. 519, October 2001), to show my admiration for the never exhausted Prince. I got to admit that even as I have had the chance to witness many Prince-concerts in the United States and Europe over the last twenty years, the one I was able to see on Saturday, 8th march, left me breathless speechless as seldom before! If future Prince-concerts are like this fantastic performance (on an upcoming tour to promote a new CD? Who knows...), the year 2003 is going to be even more exciting than 2002!"