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Moonbeam Levels
"Moonbeam Levels" is a song by American musician Prince from the album 4Ever. It was the first Prince track to be officially released posthumously, and was an outtake from the 1999 sessions, with minor editing done just prior to the Purple Rain sessions.[1] BackgroundIn 1982, during the last set of sessions held for Prince's 1982 album 1999, Prince recorded the track for the album. The track, which features emotional subjects such as death and nuclear war, was ultimately excluded from the album. After the release of 1999, he kept the track in the vault until 1983, when he took it back out and decided to shorten the ending and possibly consider it for Purple Rain. Prince's engineer Susan Rogers commented on the track and his decision to pull it:
Rogers would further elaborate just how often the track, which was one of her favorites, would show up on configurations of several of his albums:
At one point, the track was also considered to be a part of his cancelled 1988 Rave unto the Joy Fantastic project.[3] The track would eventually appear on the compilation album 4Ever, released 7 months after his death, making it his first posthumous track. PersonnelCredits sourced from Duane Tudahl, Benoît Clerc, and Guitarcloud[1][4][5][6]
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