Artist: The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince) Album: The Gold Experience
Label: Warner Bros. Release year: 1995
Performed, arranged, produced, and composed by: The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince) with the New Power Generation Engineered by: Chronic Freeze, Ray Hahnfeldt, Steve Durkee, The Artist (Formerly Known As Prince), and Tom Tucker Recorded at: Paisley Park, Guillaume Tell (Paris), and the Record Plant (Los Angeles) Cover photo by: Randee St. Nicholas
Whole New Era
The Gold Experience was a shift away from Prince’s early ’90s new- jack-swing era, when he formed the New Power Generation to help him connect with a new age of jackknifing beats and hip-hop flavors. The album is instead a funky mesh of brash pop, fuzzy rockers, huge ballads, and futuristic funk. It sounds garish and expensive, textured and thumping, yet organic. An old-fashioned musician’s album that moves to a sci-fi swing.
very good, but when you have a big band, you can only do so much. It’s like a big moving truck. When the band got smaller, it was more of a lean machine that really could turn on a dime and do anything.” Barbarella continues, “Things got more and more unpredictable. As the ’90s wore on, it became quite unpredictable. You never knew what was going to happen. He changed his mind a lot more frequently. He always did anyway, but during those times, it was even more unpredictable and hard to follow.”
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