By Kate Feldman / New York Daily News
Prince’s vault is being opened again.
A new album of previously unreleased music from the legendary singer will be released in September, Troy Carter, whose Atom Factory oversees Prince’s estate, told Variety.
“Michael Howe, who’s been working with us on the archive, has done a tremendous job of finding some special pieces of work, and one of the pieces that he found, all of us fell in love with it and decided this was special enough for fans to hear,” Carter said, calling the album “time-specific.”
Last week, Prince’s estate released a never-before-heard version of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” timed to the second anniversary of his death.
Two new websites also launched: Prince2Me, where fans can share their own memories of the “Purple Rain” singer, and an annotated discography.
“Prince recorded and rehearsed and performed constantly, and he taped everything, so once you think you’ve gotten close (to finding everything), you find new things,” Carter told Variety.
“The vault was just one room and that room ran over into multiple rooms, and this was (mostly) before digitization so you have hard drives, and tapes and things like that.”
Among the hidden treasures, Carter said, are tape notes, demos and rehearsal tapes.
“We have a very specific plan around the music, because we don’t want to just dump things into the marketplace and have things out just to have them out,” he said.
“Prince was very thoughtful in the way he released music and toured, and being able to preserve and protect that is important as well.”
The album is expected to be released Sept. 28.
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