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Oui Can Luv is an acoustic album by Andy Allo featuring Prince on acoustic guitar. 
To date, the album has only been available to stream for 12 hours on the music platform 
Tidal, with whom Prince has an extensive partnership.
The album includes nine songs; eight are known to be cover versions (including two of 
Prince's own songs, I Love U In Me and We Can Funk, revised as Oui Can Luv). Nothing is 
known about the authorship of the remaining track, False Alarm, so it is treated here 
as a writing collaboration between Prince and Andy Allo.

The songs on the album mostly come from singer-songwriters:

Fast Car was written and performed by Tracy Chapman, from her debut album Tracy Chapman 
(1988), and also released as her debut single shortly before the album.
Push And Pull, as Push & Pull, was written by Nikka Costa and Justin Stanley and performed 
by Nikka Costa, from her first U.S. album Everybody Got Their Something (2001), and also 
available as a promo-only single the following year.
Love Is A Losing Game, written and performed by Amy Winehouse, first appeared on her 2006 
album Back To Black, and was released as a single in 2007.
Wild World was written and originally performed by Cat Stevens, and first appeared on his 
1970 album Tea For The Tillerman, and also released as a single two months prior to the 
album's release.
Waiting In Vain, written by Bob Marley and performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers, first 
appeared on their 1977 album Exodus, and also released as a single the same year.
More Than This, written by Bryan Ferry and performed by his band Roxy Music, was released 
on their 1982 final album Avalon, and was released as the album's first single prior to the 
album's release.
Prince, of course, had previously released both I Love U In Me (initially as the b-side of 
The Arms Of Orion in 1989), and We Can Funk (on the Graffiti Bridge album in 1989, although 
initially recorded in 1986 under that name, following a 1983 recording under the original 
title We Can Fuck).

Sessions and compiling

The only two musicians believed to appear on the album are Andy Allo on lead and background 
vocals, and Prince on acoustic guitar, marking this the most stripped-down album in Prince's 
catalogue (although The Truth and One Nite Alone... were announced as acoustic albums on 
guitar and piano respectively, they were more heavily produced with full bands and sound 
effects on some tracks).

Nothing is known about when the album was recorded, or whether it was recorded in a single 
day, or over time. It has been announced that the songs were recorded at Paisley Park 
Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA, however. It is likely that the tracks were recorded in 
2011-2012 during sessions for Andy Allo's second studio album Superconductor, but this 
has not been confirmed.


*1. Fast Car (4:10)1
*2. Push And Pull (3:31)2
*3. Love Is A Losing Game (3:06)3
*4. False Alarm (2:49)4
*5. Wild World (2:28)5
*6. I Love U In Me (4:19)6
*7. Waiting In Vain (3:09)7
*8. Oui Can Luv (4:20)6
*9. More Than This (2:59)8
*10 Long Gone [bonus] (3:44)4

1 Written by Tracy Chapman
2 Written by Nikka Costa and Justin Stanley
3 Written by Winehouse
4 Writing credits unknown; assumed to have been written by Prince and Andy Allo
5 Written by Cat Stevens
6 Written by Prince
7 Written by Bob Marley
8 Written by Bryan Ferry