Prince unreleased music, His purple reign over the music industry isn’t over yet. Prince leaves behind a cache of unreleased music so vast that his estate could put out a posthumous album every year for the next century.
The storied vault featuring thousands of secret songs, albums and yes, even movies, has been the source of much speculation among the late artist’s purple people for decades.
"I know there's a lot of material in the vault that never got released," Prince's longtime friend and sound engineer David Z (David Rivkin) told the Daily News.
"We used to do two songs a day, and he just put them away," he said. "Maybe he instructed his lawyers to never release them. I hope that's not the case. I'd like to see some of them come out, a lot of them were pretty great."
Investigative reporter and filmmaker Mobeen Azhar also confirmed that the treasure trove exists last year in his documentary, “Hunting for Prince’s Vault.” He hounded the lawyers, managers, engineers and musicians at the “Purple Rain” singer’s Paisley Park recording studio for details about the extensive back catalog.
“There is enough unreleased studio material for him to put out an album a year for the next 100 years,” Azhar told the Daily News.
Those include an album called “The Dream Factory” and a song called “The Divine” that Prince reportedly said had harmonies so intense that “people weren’t ready to hear this song yet,” Azhar said.
“There’s a wealth of material in there,” he added. “He had entire promotional videos for songs that were never released, and also two feature length movies that are in the vault, as well.”
Alan Leeds, Prince’s former tour manager and president of Paisley Park Records until 1992, told the writer that the artist recorded every concert he ever did.
“You could do a box set of 10 CDs of live concerts from the various eras of his career,” said Leeds.
Susan Rogers, Prince’s former recording engineer, revealed to Azhar that, “I started the vault,” when she joined the music icon in 1983.
Rogers began collecting his tapes to store them in one place, and her hobby soon became an obsession.
“I wanted us to have everything he’d ever recorded. I called up the studios he’d been using and said: ‘Have you got any Prince tapes?’” she told Azhar, saying there were 2,000 unreleased songs when she left in 1989. “This is his legacy. We need to protect these things.”
Her favorite hidden gem is “Moonbeam Levels,” a single recorded in 1982 that she dubbed “unbelievably beautiful.”
The shelves of stereo tapes and multitrack tapes and full albums are stowed in an actual bank vault in the Paisley Park basement.
“It has a bank vault door. It’s really, really thick. It has the wheel on it, just like you’d see in a bank vault,” Rogers said. “When I left in 87, it was nearly full, so I can’t imagine what they’ve done [since]. It was just row after row after row of everything we did.”
Musicians who recorded with the music legend, including saxophonist Eric Leeds and drummer Michael Bland, backed up the tantalizing tale of locked up tracks.
Even though Prince averaged putting out two albums a year, Bland told Azhar that, “maybe only a quarter of the music we recorded during that time actually got released.”
Bland also teased that “there’s two other movies [besides “Purple Rain”] in the vault.”
Grammy-winning composer Brent Fischer, who worked with Prince from the 80s until his untimely death, dished that they had fun recording songs never really intended to see the light of day.
“There are lot of songs that were sent to us clearly with the idea that they would never be released,” he said in the documentary. “They were almost comical songs that he would work out with his horn players. There was lot of wild horn parts and experimentation with samples.”
The storied vault featuring thousands of secret songs, albums and yes, even movies, has been the source of much speculation among the late artist’s purple people for decades.
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"I know there's a lot of material in the vault that never got released," Prince's longtime friend and sound engineer David Z (David Rivkin) told the Daily News.
"We used to do two songs a day, and he just put them away," he said. "Maybe he instructed his lawyers to never release them. I hope that's not the case. I'd like to see some of them come out, a lot of them were pretty great."
Investigative reporter and filmmaker Mobeen Azhar also confirmed that the treasure trove exists last year in his documentary, “Hunting for Prince’s Vault.” He hounded the lawyers, managers, engineers and musicians at the “Purple Rain” singer’s Paisley Park recording studio for details about the extensive back catalog.
“There is enough unreleased studio material for him to put out an album a year for the next 100 years,” Azhar told the Daily News.
Those include an album called “The Dream Factory” and a song called “The Divine” that Prince reportedly said had harmonies so intense that “people weren’t ready to hear this song yet,” Azhar said.
“There’s a wealth of material in there,” he added. “He had entire promotional videos for songs that were never released, and also two feature length movies that are in the vault, as well.”
Alan Leeds, Prince’s former tour manager and president of Paisley Park Records until 1992, told the writer that the artist recorded every concert he ever did.
“You could do a box set of 10 CDs of live concerts from the various eras of his career,” said Leeds.
Susan Rogers, Prince’s former recording engineer, revealed to Azhar that, “I started the vault,” when she joined the music icon in 1983.
Rogers began collecting his tapes to store them in one place, and her hobby soon became an obsession.
“I wanted us to have everything he’d ever recorded. I called up the studios he’d been using and said: ‘Have you got any Prince tapes?’” she told Azhar, saying there were 2,000 unreleased songs when she left in 1989. “This is his legacy. We need to protect these things.”
Her favorite hidden gem is “Moonbeam Levels,” a single recorded in 1982 that she dubbed “unbelievably beautiful.”
The shelves of stereo tapes and multitrack tapes and full albums are stowed in an actual bank vault in the Paisley Park basement.
“It has a bank vault door. It’s really, really thick. It has the wheel on it, just like you’d see in a bank vault,” Rogers said. “When I left in 87, it was nearly full, so I can’t imagine what they’ve done [since]. It was just row after row after row of everything we did.”
Musicians who recorded with the music legend, including saxophonist Eric Leeds and drummer Michael Bland, backed up the tantalizing tale of locked up tracks.
Even though Prince averaged putting out two albums a year, Bland told Azhar that, “maybe only a quarter of the music we recorded during that time actually got released.”
Bland also teased that “there’s two other movies [besides “Purple Rain”] in the vault.”
Grammy-winning composer Brent Fischer, who worked with Prince from the 80s until his untimely death, dished that they had fun recording songs never really intended to see the light of day.
“There are lot of songs that were sent to us clearly with the idea that they would never be released,” he said in the documentary. “They were almost comical songs that he would work out with his horn players. There was lot of wild horn parts and experimentation with samples.”
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