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N.E.W.S | 
 enlarge | Artist: Prince
Label: Npg
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 44183
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 7071
UPC: 785337707128
EAN: 0785337707128
ASIN: B0000A5BY9
Publication Date: 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | North | | • | East | | • | West | | • | South |
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Amazon.com
Recorded in a single day at Paisley Park, Prince has confounded audiences yet again by recording a progressive jazz album with only four cuts--each named for a point on a compass--and clocking in at 14:00 minutes. If that wasn't enough, there isn't a single lyric on the almost hour-long disc. Like many before him, the musical savant has decided to let the music do the talking. But in Prince's case it does so, brilliantly. He has fashioned a musical lattice of fascinating conversations that are both compelling and eccentric--veering from the anxious and menacing to the soothing and deeply rhythmic--at times conjuring the specters of Sun Ra, at others, strangely Metallica. Begun as a mere jam session among the latest members of NPG, Prince has made his most collaborative record ever as he mostly plays guitar and leads his deft-handed band from the One Nite Alone tour into uncharted territory. They make seamless swings from "North's" ambient cohesiveness--led masterfully by Rhonda Smith's liquid bass--to the almost head-banging lumbering beast of "East," into the smooth elegant jazz of "West," which freefalls from a sinuous rhythmic R&B groove into a majestic and almost funereal slice of brainy pomp rock, before scaling the slippery slope of space rock on "South." It would be tempting to say that this is Prince's homage to his recently-deceased parents' stint in the Prince Rogers Trio, but it is far too forward sounding to only be a tribute. This is a brave step and it sounds remarkably like the future. --Jaan Uhelszki
Album Description
The master releases a full length instrumental jam known as N.E.W.S. North, East, West, South - music that rips in every direction! Previously available only through the NPG record club. NPG.
Album Details
Prince Delivers Four Instrumental Tracks, Each One 14 Minutes Long. Unbelieveable Packaging that is Designed to Mimic a Compass Opening Up to the Four Points. The Concept is that Information is Moving in all Directions Going to all Parts of the World. All Written, Produced and Directed by Prince and Recorded at Paisley Park Studios February 6, 2003.
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 Prince is STILL THE PRINCE!!! May 21, 2008
Cecil Graham (The Big Apple)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Has anyone linked the man, PRINCE, to the word, GENIUS?! I have listened to His Purpleness for years and I am still amazed at how adept he is at bringing something new and different from one disc to the next. As versatile a player as any before him and in a league all by himself among his contemporaries. This may not appeal to the average fan of Prince the pop artist, but for every fan of Prince the Musical Genius, this is GOLD!!!
 He's done better September 7, 2007
D. Lipe (Missouri)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I gave this 2 stars because only two of the songs were worth listening to. I'm a big Prince fan, but even that fact couldn't make me really like this CD.
It jams like '70s fusion -- but don't try to copy it if you value your cd drive. August 24, 2007
Sam I am (brunswick, Md)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love this album, but as a Prince fan and heavily into jazz fusion, that was probably a given. For those who always wondered if he could really play guitar, this answers that question. I also like the fact that he lays back and lets others be heard for a change.
But I did try to copy it into my computer hard drive, where I back up all my cds, because I often scratch or lose them, and this CD is the only one I've ever seen that has some pretty aggressive copy protection built in. It actually crashes your computer and can corrupt your CD drive. When you select the tracks and press 'rip' it blacks the screen out, sends up a little smiling white skull-and-cross-bones kind of symbol, and locks you up. I tried it again, and then my CD drive no longer worked; it seems to have corrupted the driver. The third time I tried was about a year later on a different computer, and it did the same thing as the first time -- the death's head and the locking up. So it was no coincidence.
NOT BAD,PRINCE August 16, 2007
Calvin B. Miles
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yes like everybody else it took a minute to, get into it but ,I'm glad i stayed along for the ride, instumental jazz,from the man purple. If you don't have alot of fusion knowledge. You Wom't Understand , Free your mind the kingdom of music comes from within. Not for the timid.Oh and me I'm cbmilesahead holla
Good Prince Instramentals May 31, 2007
A. Redman (Rockville, MD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was definitely worth the money. At first I was a little skeptical but as I listened to it over and over again I found a deeper appreciation. I think that I was expecting something else at first. This was similar to One Night Alone but just instrumental.
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