According to ratedrnb.com, Grammy-winning band Sade could finally break their musical silence after 12 years. In a recent Billboard cover story, Brad Pitt and French composer and producer Damien Quintard discussed the renovation of a legendary recording facility, Miraval Studios located in Correns, France. The pair named Sade as being the first to lay down new vocals at the freshly restored recording studio. Quintard stated that, “You could feel the love that she and the band had for this place. And when we talked to musicians who came here previously, they all have this special connection with Miraval that can’t really be explained… It’s a dream come true to see this place activate again,”
Sade is made up of Sade Adu (vocalist), Stuart Matthewman (saxophonist), Andrew Hale (keyboardist) and Paul Spencer Denman (bass guitarist). Matthewman confirmed that the group was working on a new album back in 2018. He stated, “When we’re happy, then we’ll let everyone else hear it. [Sade’s] not interested in fame or any of that [other] stuff. She likes to put out art. So when it’s ready, it will come out. The record company knows there’s no point in nagging us or giving us deadlines. It doesn’t help the process.”
In another interview in October of 2020 the group spoke to a British GQ Magazine and teased about recording music at Adu’s home in Gloucestershire. Denman stated that, “There wasn’t a specific date in mind when we embarked on the project — just the wish to collect a body of work together on vinyl, some of which wasn’t widely available at the time of release. Box sets sometimes can have a finality attached to them, but for us, the title This Far alludes to a point on the road, not the end of it.”
In 2018, Sade recorded two songs for film soundtracks. They shared “Flower of the Universe” for Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time and “The Big Unknown” for Steve McQueen’s Widows, which starred Viola Davis.
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