The Rainbow Children (album)

The Rainbow Children
Prince's studio album
Publication (s)	November 20, 2001
admission	Late 2000 - early April 2001
Label (s)	NPG Records / Redline Entertainment
Format (s)	Compact Disc , double LP , MC , download
Genre (s)	Funk , jazz , concept album , pop music , R&B , rock music , soul
Title (number)	21st
running time	69:58
occupation	All songs were produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince . His band members added the following to the recordings: Milenia, Kip Blackshire, Morris Hayes, Femi Jiya - backing vocals Femi Jiya - spoken sentences Michael Bland - drums in all songs except The Work Pt. 1 Kirk Johnson - drums in The Work Pt. 1 Larry Graham - bass guitar in The Work Pt. 1 , last December Najee - soprano saxophone , flute The Hornheads - brass instruments Prince, Femi Jiya - sound engineers , mixing Bernie Grundmann, Brian Gardner - Mastering Joe Lepinski - Mastering Assistant, Pro Tools Editing Cbabi Bayoc - illustration Jeremy Gavin - design
production	Prince
Studio (s)	Paisley Park Studio ( Chanhassen )
chronology Rave In2 the Joy Fantastic (2001) The Rainbow Children One Nite Alone ... (2002)
Single release April 6, 2001 The Work Part 1

The Rainbow Children ( English for The Rainbow Children ) is the 24th studio album of the US musician Prince . It was released on November 20, 2001 on the label NPG Records / Redline Entertainment and is a concept album , since Prince designed a framework around the songs on the album; the lyrics refer to the Jehovah's Witnesses . The music belongs to the genres R&B , funk , soul , pop , rock and jazz . Larry Graham is one of the guest musicians .

Registered members of his then homepage NPG Music Club.com were able to download the album on October 16, 2001 if they had pre-ordered it. From 2001 to 2004 Prince was not under contract with any record company and with the help of this homepage he carried out his own music distribution. The Rainbow Children achieved neither gold nor platinum status internationally .

The music by The Rainbow Children was mostly rated positively by music critics , while the lyrics were mostly negative. The tour for the album called Prince "One Nite Alone Tour" and was highly praised by critics in part, she was also a commercial success.

On May 29, 2020, The Prince Estate released the album again on CD and as a double LP, and it was then also placed in the top 100 of international charts.

Emergence

The Rainbow Children is Prince's first album with new compositions, which he released under his actual stage name "Prince" since Love Symbol in 1992. Due to differences with the major label Warner Bros. Records , he replaced his stage name with an unpronounceable symbol in 1993 and did not want to publish any new songs with Warner, but was still under contract with the recording company until December 31, 1999. The albums, which he released with Warner under the artist name “Prince” from 1993 due to a contract, contain songs some of which he had already recorded in the 1980s. In May 2000, Prince officially reverted to his original stage name.

Prince recorded The Rainbow Children album at his Paisley Park studio in Chanhassen , Minnesota. He began working on the album at the end of 2000 and played almost all of the instruments himself; the brass quintet The Hornheads recorded its parts on February 8, 2001 at Paisley Park Studio. At the beginning of April 2001 the album was finished. Saxophonist Najee said after Prince's death in 2016: “He sang the parts that I was supposed to play. I took care of the notation and played on the flute what he was singing. In all honesty, when I heard the finished record, I didn't recognize much of the things I was playing. Prince is like a painter; only he knows what the finished picture will look like. ”In June 2001, Prince introduced The Rainbow Children at live concerts in Minneapolis , Minnesota.

When the album The Rainbow Children in November 2001 appeared, Prince had publicly religious community of Jehovah's Witnesses known. He also said in an interview at the time with the daily newspaper The Boston Globe that from now on he would remove all swear words from his lyrics. He kept to this until his death on April 21, 2016.

Commercial considerations played no role for Prince in the creation of The Rainbow Children, nor should it be seen as an attempt at an art comeback by the musician. He wanted to concentrate on his musical skills and release an album that would bring him joy and combine spirituality with funk and jazz influences. Najee confirmed after Prince's death in 2016: “Such records are not for the radio. He didn't care. His music was his personal statement. ”Prince said he was“ now the record company ”and got $ 7 off a $ 10 CD and not just pennies , as is common with traditional record deals .

Design of the cover

The front of the digipak shows a painting called "The Reine Keis Quintet", which was designed by the then 29-year-old American illustrator Cbabi Bayoc. The colorful painting shows four people playing the saxophone, drums, electric bass and guitar. At the bottom right of the cover the album title “the rainbow children” can be read in lower case and in white letters. The painting “The Reine Keis Quintet” is also shown on the back of the digipak. A photo of Prince can only be seen by opening the digipak and turning it over; he is wearing a green sweater and black pants.

The 15-page booklet is integrated in the digipak and contains the lyrics of the individual album songs. The track list is printed on the first page of the booklet. There is also another photo of Prince in the booklet, also designed in the form of a painting.

Music and singing

The music on the album belongs to the genres R&B , funk , soul , pop and rock . There are also cool jazz structures and new age influences in some songs. The lyrics sings Prince predominantly set to music , in his characteristic falsetto -Gesang he can be heard. Furthermore, gospel choirs can be heard in the songs Everywhere , The Everlasting Now and Last December . The backing vocals of the album are carried out by the girl group Milenia, consisting of the four sisters Malikah, Mikele, Niyoki and Tia White. Milenia also supported Prince on his Hit-N-Run tour from November 2000 to May 2001.

The first song is called Rainbow Children , in whose title Prince omitted the article "The" from the album name. The song is sometimes jazz -angehaucht and has as theme a bass - figure , the chorus is musical like . The slow songs Muse 2 the Pharaoh , Mellow and She Loves Me 4 Me can be assigned to the contemporary R&B genre and are based on electronic piano , soft drums and sparse guitar playing. The piece Digital Garden consists of a Salsa - beat paired with a synthesizer - texture together. The music of the funk song The Work Pt. 1 sometimes looks like an homage to James Brown .

Everywhere is from the field of pop music, the live drumming comes from John Blackwell, the intro is performed by the girl group Milenia. The song flows directly into The Sensual Everafter , which has a calm instrumental section reminiscent of Carlos Santana . The Sensual Everafter has the effect of lounge music at times . The song 1 + 1 + 1 Is 3 is from the field of electronic dance music and Prince uses almost all the musical elements from his song Erotic City (1984), the B-side of the single Let's Go Crazy at the time . The piece Deconstruction consists mainly of a monologue , which Prince, the narrator of the framework story, gives with a distorted voice. Apart from that, a short guitar solo can be heard in the song.

The 54-second a cappella piece Wedding Feast serves as an interlude on the album. The intro is sung by Kip Blackshire, the singing that follows is to be understood as a humorous parody of opera singing . At the end of the piece, Prince laughs discreetly in the background. Family Name is a rhythmic song with funky drums and an electric bass. The piece begins with a weakened opening and, in combination with dominant guitar playing, develops into a performance from the genres of rock and funk. The computer- alienated spoken sentences come from the sound engineer Femi Jiya and Morris Hayes.

The Everlasting Now is a funk upbeat song in which Prince juggles between spoken and sung vocals . The piece contains Latin-Pop -like passages and guitar playing, in which Prince was inspired by Carlos Santana. The last song on the album is the rock ballad Last December and contains passages reminiscent of funk metal and Arabic music .

The concept

The Rainbow Children is a concept album , the lyrics of which are often spiritually inspired and at times make clear reference to the Jehovah's Witnesses . Prince designed a framework plot around the songs on the album. He tells the story of the "Rainbow Children" and their king "The Wise One"; these are locked in a "digital garden" that was built by the villains "The Banished Ones". The Wise One eventually performs an "invisible act" and sends The Banished Ones back to their birthplace in the imaginary city of "Menda City"; this name is a play on words with the English word "mendacity", which means "mendacity". After The Banished Ones are in Menda City, the Rainbow Children and The Wise One go door to door. They want to find people who agree to destroy the digital garden in order to bring about the “everlasting now” that can be interpreted as paradise .

A woman named "Muse" is sent to The Wise One to become his wife. Apart from that, her love for God has increased and this passion leads Muse into the realm of transcendence from the "sensual everafter". While she is in a "hypnotic relaxation sleep", The Wise One plants a seed of epistemology in her head. With this Prince suggests “1 + 1 + 1 Is 3”, that is, The Wise One plus Muse plus God equals three.

Now Prince lets the story take an unusual turn; Issues of slavery and races are explored. Also, people who want a marriage license need access to Akashic Records Genetic Information Division. Akashic Records is a purportedly spiritual place that holds an entire record of everything that has ever happened or will occur in the future - be it actions, thoughts or feelings.

Following Akashic Records, Prince tells the story from a first-person perspective . He had known a ruler who took off his “pearly crown” when he realized that “men are not suited to rule”. The ruler now seeks the kingdom of God from his own heart and spirit . The exact knowledge of Jesus Christ and God the Father are necessary for the arrival of the "everlasting now". In addition, Prince makes the following claim: Those who loved Jesus Christ are therefore also those who benefit from it. The story of the “Rainbow Children” ends with the sentences “In the name of the father. In the name of the son. We have to come together. Coming together as ONE ”.

The plot, which is sometimes difficult to understand, is told by Prince using pitch shifting in a deep and distorted pitch that resembles his voice in the song Bob George from the Black Album (1994). As a narrator, he adds passages at the beginning or at the end of some songs that interrupt the music on the album The Rainbow Children .

The lyrics

In the song Rainbow Children , Prince tells how they are building "a new nation" based on the Bible Translation New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures of Jehovah's Witnesses . The song also features the king of the Rainbow Children “The Wise One” and his wife, who are banished from the new nation by the villains “The Banished Ones”. Prince also quotes the line of text “Reproduction of the New Breed, Leaders, stand up! Organize! "(German:" The reproduction of the New Breed, Leaders, get up! Organize! ") Of his song Sexuality from 1981 from the album Controversy .

Muse 2 the Pharaoh is about a gender hierarchy in which men make the decisions and distinguish themselves as artists, while women serve them. In addition, Prince draws a comparison between the Holocaust and the enslavement of African-Americans and proposes that the extermination of a people is preferable to the loss of freedom.

Digital Garden introduces the villains "The Banished Ones", the enemies of the Rainbow Children. The Banished Ones take over the power of the entire world, except in the Palace of the Rainbow Children, which was surrounded by The Banished Ones with a "digital garden". The Banished Ones want to overthrow The Wise One. Thanks to “an invisible deed” by The Wise One, he succeeds in sending The Banished Ones back to their homeland “Menda City”. The Rainbow Children are now going “door-to-door” to find people who are ready for the dismantling of the “Digital Garden”.

The Work Pt. 1 includes the Rainbow Children's decision to destroy the “Digital Garden” before the Rainbow Children find paradise on earth in the song Everywhere .

In the song The Sensual Everafter , The Wise One seduces his muse who was sent to become his wife so that he can bring her to "the sensual everafter". The piece consists mainly of instrumental play with spoken words by the narrator, who continues to tell the story of the Rainbow Children.

In the play Mellow , The Wise One seems to bring his muse to orgasm before he hypnotizes her by stroking her hair. The lyrics also make reference to “The Egg,” which is actually an oval-shaped house and is located on the grounds of Prince's Paisley Park Studio. What the house was used for - Prince died in 2016 - is not known to the public.

1 + 1 + 1 Is 3 seems to indicate the importance of God in a marriage. In the lyrics, Prince explains that The Wise One plus his future wife and God give three and that there is “nothing to be shaken”.

The song Deconstruction consists mainly of a spoken transition with musical support. Prince as narrator sums up the history of the Rainbow Children so far; The Banished Ones have been chased away by the Rainbow Children and from far away The Banished Ones watch as the Rainbow Children dissolve the Digital Garden. People have internalized that no one else would "be able to lay claim to the treasures of the Rainbow Children." The muse wakes up from her hypnosis “as queen” and is ready to marry The Wise One.

The wedding between The Wise One and his muse takes place in the song Wedding Feast , whereby the wedding feast is vegan . Prince sings the lyrics of She Loves Me 4 Me from the first person perspective and the woman not described in it is also vegan. Prince appreciates the fact that she loves him for who he actually is and not how other people imagine him.

Family Name begins with a computer-alienated female voice that introduces the listener to the supposedly spiritual place "Akashic Records". In addition, Prince deals with slavery and race in the lyrics ; In contrast to Jews, African-American slaves had to discard their family names and rename themselves. In addition, Prince gives the fictitious quote “My fellow Americans, if there is a just God, we're gonna pay for this!” With a computer-alienated voice. “My American fellow citizens, if there is a just God, we will be for it [happy] to pay! ”) from the third American President Thomas Jefferson . Family Name ends with a real quote from Martin Luther King ’s speech " I Have a Dream " on August 28, 1963; “Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last !. '”(German:“ [If] black men and whites, Jews and Gentiles , Protestants and Catholics , can hold hands and the words of the old Negro spiritualist' Finally free! free! Thank you God Almighty, we are finally free! 'sing ".)

In The Everlasting Now song , Prince argues, "Those who love Jesus Christ will be the ones who benefit." The last song on the album is called Last December , but it has no special reference to the history of the Rainbow Children.

Title list and publication

No.	song	author	length
01	Rainbow Children	Prince	10:03
02	Muse 2 the Pharaoh	Prince	4:21
03	Digital garden	Prince	4:07
04th	The Work Pt. 1	Prince	4:28
05	Everywhere	Prince	2:54
06th	The Sensual Everafter	Prince	2:57
07th	Mellow	Prince	4:24
08th	1 + 1 + 1 Is 3	Prince	5:17
09	Deconstruction	Prince	1:59
010	Wedding Feast	Prince	0:54
011	She Loves Me 4 Me	Prince	2:49
012	Family name	Prince	8:16
013	The Everlasting Now	Prince	8:18
014th	Last December	Prince	7:57

Members of Prince's former website NPG Music Club.com were able to purchase The Rainbow Children as a download on October 16, 2001 . On November 20, 2001, the album was released worldwide on Prince's own music label NPG Records and the US independent label Redline Entertainment on compact discs , double LPs and MC .

The album contains a total of 21 tracks, with tracks 15 to 20 only having pauses of three seconds each. Track 21 is 38 seconds long and Prince often repeats the word "one", the last word of the line of text "together as one" from Last December .

On May 29, 2020 The Prince Estate released The Rainbow Children again on CD and as a double LP, which is available on transparent vinyl. The double LP comes with a slipmat in the rainbow symbol design , which comes into its own in combination with the transparent LP.

Single releases

Only one single was released from the album; The Work Part 1 was released on April 6, 2001 and could only be downloaded from Napster, the then music exchange . The download was free and it became one of the most downloaded songs in Napster history. About the collaboration with Napster Prince said at the time: "The record companies just don't understand that Napster is just showing people's growing frustration at how much the industry controls the music." Napster founder Shawn Fanning praised Prince, saying he was a " true visionary ”. Prince named the song on the album The Rainbow Children in The Work Pt. 1 um, the reasons for this are unknown.

The Work Part 1 could also be ordered as a CD single in summer 2001 via NPG Music Club.com . The B-side is the song U Make My Sun Shine , a duet between Prince and Angie Stone . U Make My Sun Shine was originally a non-album track and was released as a free download on December 21, 2000 from Prince's then website, NPGOnlineLtd.com . On March 29, 2004, Prince released the song on his download album The Chocolate Invasion .

Furthermore, were of The Rainbow Children with 4 Me She Loves Me , Last December and Jazz Sampler three promotional singles extracted. She Loves Me 4 Me is a 1-track CD single and was only released in France and the US. Last December was also released as a 1-track CD single and was only released in Japan at the end of 2001. Another promo single was released in the US called Jazz Sampler , consisting of the four songs She Loves Me 4 Me , The Sensual Everafter , Rainbow Children and Digital Garden . All versions of the three promo CDs are identical to the respective album versions of The Rainbow Children .

Prince did not produce any music videos for songs on The Rainbow Children's album, and covers by other performers are not known.

tour

→ Main article : One Nite Alone… Live!

The tour for the album called Prince One-Nite-Alone-Tour and went through the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan. It began on March 1, 2002 in Saginaw , Michigan and ended on November 29, 2002 in Nagoya . The tour included a total of 64 concerts, was attended by around 264,000 spectators and grossed around 20 million US dollars (then around 20.1 million euros).

reception

Press

Music critics rated the album The Rainbow Children mostly positive; some were of the opinion that Prince had not been so keen to experiment since his 1987 album Sign "☮" the Times and that the jazz passages of The Rainbow Children were reminiscent of those of the bands Steely Dan and Weather Report . Prince's transitions as the narrator with a deep and distorted voice were generally perceived as disturbing and irritating. The lyrics that make reference to Jehovah's Witnesses were rarely discussed. Very few critics saw it as anti-Semitic statements by Prince. The sometimes peculiar music of the album and the lack of hit singles were also criticized.

Edna Gundersen from USA Today was enthusiastic about the album The Rainbow Children and gave it three and a half stars out of four. She wrote: "An incomparable production, an undisguised desire to experiment and a brilliant musical implementation come together here to form one of the most daring and fascinating albums that Prince has delivered to date, regardless of how you feel about his mysterious bows to God."

The music critics David Wilson and John Alroy also gave three and a half stars out of four and praised the musical range of the album: it was "relaxed jazz (Rainbow Children) and Fender Rhodes (Everywhere) , guitar solos (The Sensual Everafter) " and an homage to James Brown (The Work Pt. 1) . But 1 + 1 + 1 Is 3 is "an inferior remake" of Erotic City (1984), Wedding Feast an "absurd operetta ", She Loves Me 4 Me "banal as the song title suggests" and the opening of Family Name is over "Too strong computer-generated vocals". Prince kept the best songs on the album "until the very end"; The Everlasting Now is a "funk opus" and Last December is sometimes reminiscent of the guitar-heavy rock ballads Purple Rain (1984) and Gold (1995). The Rainbow Children's lyrics are "mostly advertisements for Jehovah's Witnesses", but it is "easy to ignore the messages and appreciate the music".

Greg Kot of the US national newspaper Chicago Tribune said the music by The Rainbow Children was “partly Prince's strongest in years; a true fashion show, dressed in the glow of killer melodies in funk, gospel, soul and gypsy rock ”. The musical spectrum is reminiscent of the " Sign" ☮ "the Times masterpiece from 1987".

Sarah Rodman of the US daily Boston Herald gave it three out of four stars and drew the conclusion: "Regardless of whether you agree with the overall statement of the album or not, The Rainbow Children sounds colorful and beautiful to the ears of a long-time Prince fan."

Rene E Graham of the US daily The Boston Globe said The Rainbow Children was not a "classic" but "perhaps the most consistently satisfying Prince album since Sign 'O' The Times [sic] in 1987." About the lyrics, Graham wrote that it was "a 70-minute sermon disguised as a concept album about the good, the bad, and the enduring power of God's love." He compared The Rainbow Children to the albums Slow Train Coming (1979) and Saved (1980) by Bob Dylan , in which Dylan shares his view as a born again Christian .

Jon Bream of the national US daily Minneapolis Star Tribune wrote about the lyrics of the album: "The vision and philosophizing is pure Prince - cosmic, complex, confusing and, of course, sexual intercourse (in polite, almost poetic euphemisms )". Although these are “not particularly controversial”, they are “cult”.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic gave three out of five stars and said that Prince was "not so focused and worthwhile in a long time". It is a “pity” that nobody “except the hardcore Prince fans” is interested in this.

Arion Berger from the US music magazine Rolling Stone was disappointed with the album and gave two and a half stars out of five. The Rainbow Children is "an arduous walk through the desert to this heady water, preceded by a freak in the pulpit , waving his synthesizers of holy justice."

Marc Weingarten of the US magazine Entertainment Weekly gave The Rainbow Children a grade of C- on a scale from A + to F and wrote: “Demonstratively displayed faithfulness to the Bible does not suit Prince very well; the loose jazz-funk grooves are stifled by his bigotry. ”His career was“ characterized by interesting failures ”, but Prince never sounded “ so prosaic ”.

David Segal of the US newspaper The Washington Post said he was very disappointed with The Rainbow Children . The album is "often like a disjointed and ridiculous pop opera about religion and love that desperately needs a text editor ". Nevertheless, “some of the best Prince music in years is buried in this chaos”. The “most glaring mistake” is the story of the album, which is described by a narrator “like Barry White on barbiturates ”. It is "impossible to follow history". "The only way" to enjoy the album is to "ignore the chatter and skip it".

After Prince's death in April 2016, the music journalists Albert Koch and Thomas Weiland from the German music magazine Musikexpress reviewed the album The Rainbow Children and gave it four and a half out of six stars. They wrote: "The fantastic title track with its free passages, twists and turns, is not really reasonable for Prince fans who want hits." The only "downer" on The Rainbow Children is the vocoder voice, which is "annoying".

A memorial service in honor of the musician was held in Minnetonka , Minnesota, in the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses on May 15, 2016, to mark Prince's death . Among the 500 exclusively invited guests were Prince's personal assistant Meron Bekure, 3rd Eye Girl bassist Ida Kristine Nielsen , Sinbad , Sheila E. and her current and in 1989 Prince manager Gilbert Davison. Larry Graham gave a speech. Prince's family was not invited. The musician belonged to the faith community of Jehovah's Witnesses until his death and was a member under the name "Brother Nelson".

Charts

Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	29 (1 week)	1
Austria (Ö3)	60 (1 week)	1
Switzerland (IFPI)	30th (4 weeks)	4th
United Kingdom (OCC)	- (- Where.)	-
United States (Billboard)	109 (2 weeks)	2

For the first time since his 1978 debut album For You , a Prince album missed the top 100 of the US charts. The Rainbow Children also reached 17th place in Japan and 78th place in France as the highest ranking. The album sold over 560,000 copies worldwide, of which about 158,000 albums were sold in the USA. (As of August 2007)

The Rainbow Children achieved the highest ranking in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in June 2020 with the re-release of The Prince Estate. In 2001 the album was not released in Germany or Austria, in Switzerland it reached number 74.

literature

• Mobeen Azhar: Prince 1958–2016: His life in pictures and text. Edition Olms, Oetwil am See / Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-283-01265-6 , OCLC 951825985 .
• Jason Draper: Prince - Life & Times (Revised & Updated Edition). Chartwell Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-7858-3497-7 .
• Alex Hahn: Obsessed - Prince's turbulent life . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85445-610-0
• Ronin Ro: Prince - Inside the Music and the Masks. St. Martin's Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-38300-8 , OCLC 428027211 .
• Matt Thorne: Prince. Faber and Faber, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-571-27349-2 , OCLC 794814748 .
• Uptown: The Vault - The Definitive Guide to the Musical World of Prince. Nilsen Publishing, Linköping 2004, ISBN 91-631-5482-X , OCLC 186521364 .
• Uptown # 52: The Independent, Unofficial and Uncensored Magazine Exploring the Musical World of Prince. , August 12, 2002

Web links

• Princevault.com , information on The Rainbow Children album

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