Prince To Release Three Albums in 2009
By Emily
Prince has huge aspirations for 2009, planning to release not one, not two, but THREE new albums over the course of the year (and lord knows the world needs three new Prince albums). The singer claims to have already completed two solo albums “MPLSOUND” and “Lotus Flower” as well as an album with Bria Valente called “Elixir.”
According to the LA Times Prince will be releasing all three albums independently rather than working with a particular label, and is currently in negotiations with a US retailer to distribute the discs. The Times reported:
Four new guitar-heavy songs of Prince’s were premiered on LA radio station Indie 103 shortly before Christmas… According to LA Times journalist Ann Powers, these tracks will form part of an album called Lotus Flower. Powers was recently summoned to Prince’s mansion to hear the new material.
“Needless to say, it was an amazing experience,” she wrote on the LA paper’s website.
The second album will be a return to the electronic sound of When Doves Cry, says Powers, and will be called MPLSOUND – a reference to the star’s hometown of Minneapolis. A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip guests and Prince says he has been experimenting with “new ways of recording”.
The third record of 2009 will be a co-effort with Prince protege Bria Valente, which was recorded because “we got sick of waiting for Sade to make a new album”.
