New Prince Music Coming?

• Previously unreleased music from Prince is “coming soon,” estate adviser Troy Carter tells Variety, although he declined to divulge any further details about the recordings. Carter, who is also Spotify’s Global Head of Creative Services said of Prince, “He was a guy who practically lived in a recording studio, and once we started going through [the unreleased material] we really started finding some gems. I heard some music the other night that was pretty mind-blowing and we’re getting some stuff mixed right now. We’ve got great projects in the works that I’m excited to talk about.”

Prince’s vast treasure trove of unreleased music was moved from his Paisley Park compound outside of Minneapolis to a climate-controlled storage facility in Los Angeles last year after some of the tapes were found to have deteriorated.

“So the answer is yes, there will be unreleased Prince music coming soon,” Carter said, although he declined to specify which label might release the recordings. As the Variety story reminds us, “A lack of clarity over the terms of Prince’s contract with Warner Bros. Records, the label to which he was signed for nearly the first 20 years of his career, caused a $31 million recorded-music deal the estate’s former advisers had negotiated with Universal Music to be nullified last year, leaving a huge number of the artist’s recordings in a state of legal limbo.”