PURPLE SNOW: FORECASTING THE MINNEAPOLIS by VARIOUS
| SKU | 72460 |
| Artist | VARIOUS |
| Title | PURPLE SNOW: FORECASTING THE MINNEAPOLIS |
| Label | NUMERO GROUP |
| Catalog # | NUMERO 050LP |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 49 - 2013 |
| Format | Vinyl - US4LP BOX & BOOK |
| € 74,99 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- 94 East If You See Me
- Aura Taste Of Love
- Herman Jones I Love You
- Orville Shannon Oh Lover
- Mind & Matter I'm Under Your Spell
- Haze Waiting For The Moment
- Prophets Of Peace Get It On
- Cohesion Expense
- Mind & Matter Sunshine Lady
- The Lewis Connection Higher
- Flyte Tyme It's The Things That You Do
- Herman Jones Ladie
- Michael A. Dixon and J.O.Y. You're All I Need
- Music, Love & Funk Stone Lover
- Cohesion Cohesion
- Haze I Do Love My Lady
- The Lewis Connection Got To Be Something Here
- Walter Lewis & the Blue Stars I Have Love at Home
- Flyte Tyme I've Got You On My Mind
- Quiet Storm Can You Deal With It
- Steven Quick
- The Stylle Band If You Love Me
- The Girls I've Got My Eyes On You
- Sue Ann Carwell Should I Or Should I Not?
- Alexander O'Neal Do You Dare
- Ronnie Robbins Contagious
- Alexander O'Neal Borrowed Time
- Orville Shannon One Life To Live
- André Cymone Somebody Said
- Walter Lewis &the Blue Stars Do It Baby Do It
- Rockie Robbins Together
- Mind & Matter No One Else Can Do It To Me Baby
Description
In the late 1970s, a peculiar sound began bubbling up from the land of 10,000 lakes. Buried beneath 50 solid inches of annual snow, Minneapolis made a Sound quite different than what the pop world foresaw. Here a monster 4LP compilation of that sound - check!!It issued forth as a slick, black, technologically advanced fusion, poised to storm the charts. Never known for sizable African-American populations, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in fact harbored a tight-knit community of musicians working feverishly through the late �70s and early �80s toward a radical manipulation of American dance music, coating futuristic funk with the glamorous sheen of guitar rock. Synthetic ebony and ivory met electricity, with sexed-up results sent shockingly across the pop heavens like violet lightning.
On 4 LPs, Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound�the Numero Group�s breathlessly anticipated 50th mainline release�chronicles the scene�s first steps, false starts, and follow-throughs, sourcing the life�s work of known quantities and shadowy figures alike. In the beginning, there was Purple Haze, whose billing as Haze on two obscure albums left the color purple to their city�s incipient sound. Pep� Willie�s 94 East project gave local prodigy Prince Rogers Nelson an early chance to row along with the crew. From there, the story courses past Jimmy Jam Harris� extroverted Philly throwback Mind & Matter collective, to Terry Lewis and Flyte Tyme, flamboyant precursor to Morris Day�s The Time. Unearthing basement demos by Prince�s childhood sidekick/departed bassist Andr� Cymone, plus deep cuts from legend-about-town Alexander O�Neal, Numero 050 gathers relentlessly as the sprawling, nonfiction prequel to Purple Rain�s cultural takeover.
Surpassing 30,000 words, our hardbound, full-color book companion to Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound is a gorgeous, exhaustively detailed, and insight-rich guided tour across two hours of music and a decade of North Star history. Inside, dozens of supporting characters and combos seed clouds for the meteoric rise of a genre formerly known mostly as Prince�s�not to mention unheard product from his top collaborators and fiercest competitors. In game-changing sound and image-rich splendor, Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound clears a crowded stage, ushering in unsung Twin Cities future-funk talent, to bask for a spotlit moment, out of that persistent violet shadow, and to shine.
