First of all - holy f, this was unexpected. I've asked Damien about all of them and he confirms they are all indeed real. Same stuff he heard at the copyright office a decade ago.
We know Photographs and Michael's Affirmation is the same song.. We already had a snippet of the instrumental/instrumental part of Photographs leaked a few months back from the German YouTuber.
The Water snippet and Adore You snippet are pretty mind blowing to me. Both sound absolutely amazing. In the full versions, Water only has the chorus being repeatedly sang, and Adore You doesnt have any vocals other than the choir, according to Damine¨s notes. However, Adore You vocals might exist, since it was on his final list of songs to work on in 2009.
So the story is here that these songs were all played at the MP and BB Making HIStory seminar from last year? I remember there being talks about this seminar being special, but little information was put out. The quality sounds like they def. are recorded in a big room. This confirms that they at least wont leak in any high quality.
The source of the recordings are asking for 300 euros for all the songs, and someone backed out of the deal and leaked the snippets instead? And they were going to buy them, then leak them in December? Sounds a bit fishy to me. First of all, 300 euros for all of them sounds sort of cheap to me despite the bad quality. Second of all, why would the seller back out if people still want to pay for them?
Anyway, amazing. Water and Adore You both go in my "crazy mythical songs" list where songs like Dark Lady H2O and Monster rest.