Grammy-winning jazz and R&B auteur Jon Batiste has make clear unreleased collaborations with Lana Del Rey – describing them as “stunning”.
The famend pianist and singer-songwriter was talking in a brand new interview with NME when he recalled his time working with Lana Del Rey, and the way there are nonetheless quite a few recordings from the singer that haven’t but been launched.
The dialogue got here forward of his upcoming album ‘World Music Radio’, which is about for launch on Friday (August 18) and options collaborations from Lil Wayne, New Denims, JID, and extra. It additionally sees him as soon as once more be part of forces with the ‘Video Video games’ singer – following the 2 collaborating on ‘Sweet Necklace’, a observe from her newest album ‘Do you know that there’s a tunnel beneath Ocean Blvd’.
“We had a fantastic first assembly after our mutual good friend and musical collaborator Zach Dawes launched us as a result of he thought we might have a fantastic artistic spark,” Batiste stated, explaining how the partnership happened within the new NME interview. “We met and it simply become a ravishing collaboration.”
“I met Rick Rubin in Italy and he prompt I am going to Shangri-La [Rubin’s studio in Malibu, California],” he continued. “I instructed him I used to be impressed to create a brand new album and I used to be creating with all sorts 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,” he added. “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.”
Later within the interview, he additionally described the currently-unreleased recordings as sounding “stunning”, and teased that there could also be plans to share them at a later date.
“It’s some unimaginable, actually nice, stunning stuff we’ve made collectively,” he started. “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 in the future I’ve extra to say about what is going to occur with it [laughs].”
Elsewhere within the interview, Batiste additionally defined the inspiration behind his upcoming LP, and revealed that he hopes to make folks query their definition of world music.
“I additionally was making music and eager about how fashionable tradition and world tradition have turn out to be increasingly synonymous with one another,” he defined. “The definition of what and who that may be is increasing when it comes to age, race and demographics. It’s one thing that I used to be eager about rather a lot.”
“All the things that’s stated about world music is absolutely fallacious – it feels nearly like a separate class however the whole lot on the planet is world music. Music that’s made for everyone on the planet, that’s what we’re doing,” he continued. “And I feel in case you reinvented and reimagined what that time period means, it’s a ravishing immediate, not a marginalising concept – it’s an expansive one.”
In the meantime, earlier this yr the musician joined forces with NewJeans, JID and extra to share the brand new single ‘Be Who You Are (Actual Magic) – made in collaboration with COKE STUDIO.
