New songs from Sade Adu will be released soon.
In France’s Miraval Studios, which producer Damien Quintard and actor Brad Pitt recently restored and reopened, Sade has been producing new music.
The information was made public yesterday (October 10) in a Billboard cover story in which Pitt and Quintard were both interviewed and disclosed that Sade had visited Miraval Studios since it had undergone renovation.
“You could feel the love that she and the band had for [Miraval Studios],” Quintard said in reference to Sade frontwoman and solo musician Sade Adu.
The band, who had previously recorded at the studio during its busiest years in the 2000s, is one of the acts having a “unique connection [to] Miraval that can’t really be articulated,” according to Quintard.
To watch this location come to life once more is a dream come true, according to Quintard. In a different interview with Spin, Quintard reiterated the pair’s remarks, calling Sade “extremely special [for] the legacy of the studio,” and Pitt also referred to Sade as “royalty.”
She was the first artist to return and record here, so we were ecstatic when she arrived. Quintard asserts that some of the studio’s best moments have been produced by fusing the past with the present.
Sade’s new music from the Miraval Studio sessions is most likely the artist’s first since his 2018 single “Flower of the Universe,” which was included on the soundtrack of Ava DuVernay’s movie A Wrinkle in Time. ‘Soldier of Love,’ Sade’s most recent studio album, was released in 2010.
Before Brad Pitt and his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie purchased the property in 2011, Sade was only one of several performers to frequently visit Miraval Studios.
The studio, which also hosted sessions for artists like AC/DC, Courtney Love, Sting, and Wham!, among others, was the location for the recording of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” and The Cure’s “Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me.”
The studio is expected to welcome recording artists in the summer of 2022 as a result of Pitt and Quintard’s renovations, which have been underway for more than a year. Miraval has been dormant for 20 years.