Lana Del Rey recorded some “lovely” songs with Jon Batiste that he hopes will see the sunshine of day.
The 36-year-old musician seems on ‘Sweet Necklace’ and the ‘Jon Batiste Interlude’ on the ‘Video Video games’ hitmaker’s newest LP ‘Do you know that there’s a tunnel below Ocean Blvd’, whereas Lana, 38, returned the favour and is featured on his tune ‘Life Lesson’ on his new file ‘World Music Radio’, which is out on Friday (18.08.23).
Requested how they got here to work collectively, Jon instructed NME: “We had an ideal first assembly after our mutual pal and musical collaborator Zach Dawes launched us as a result of he thought we’d have an ideal artistic spark. We met and it simply was a fantastic collaboration.
“I met Rick Rubin in Italy, and he prompt I’m going to Shangri-La [Rubin’s studio in Malibu, California]. I instructed him I used to be impressed to create a brand new album and I used to be creating with all varieties of totally different musicians and producers and in that artistic spur, I had plenty of issues that I used to be recording with Lana, and I recorded plenty of issues with Lana that nobody has even heard but. However two of these issues ended up on her final album [2023’s ‘Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd’] and ‘Life Lesson’ on my album is just like the palate cleanser after the credit roll within the film. It’s a religious relative of the album periods.”
Requested if we are going to ever hear the opposite tunes they recorded collectively, he mentioned: “It’s some unimaginable, actually nice, lovely stuff we’ve made collectively. We’ve talked about doing one thing collectively. However this music, I imply, hopefully, on the proper time, I don’t wish to say an excessive amount of, however I hope sooner or later I’ve extra to say about what is going to occur with it [laughs].”
Elsewhere, Jon spoke about performing with late music legend Prince and the way the ‘Purple Rain’ hitmaker has impressed him.
He recalled: “Oh it was so actual [laughs]. I used to be actually in my dorm room within the yr earlier than assembly Prince and I used to be finding out recordings. I used to be making an attempt to dissect his album, ‘Soiled Thoughts’. I made a number of songs impressed by that album and his method to [making music], his personal Prince type. The following yr, I get the decision. Prince had heard our band enjoying in a membership: he’d been on the present the entire time – I didn’t know he was even within the viewers! He mentioned he wished to take the band to do a collaboration on one in every of his excursions and we ended up doing that. The primary time I ever carried out in a stadium aged 19 was with Prince and seeing how he curated his present, how he introduced his music and simply being round that was actually inspiring.”
Sharing the recommendation he received from the ‘Raspberry Beret’ singer, Jon mentioned throughout a current look on ‘Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen’: “I used to be a child. I used to be about 19 or 20, so I wasn’t having a dialogue with Prince. I used to be with Prince, however it wasn’t like we have been having a dialog. However at any time when we did converse, I attempted to get some nuggets of knowledge out of him. And he mentioned, ‘Privateness,’ and I keep in mind that as a result of he was speaking about extra than simply music.”
