New Prince Music Being Released Nearly One Year After His Death

by Mike Vulpo | Tue, Apr 18, 2017 11:07 PM


Turn up the nearest speakers Prince fans, because new music is here.

In honor of the one-year anniversary of the iconic singer's passing, RMA has released a new song titled "Deliverance" on iTunes and Apple Music.

The track is part of a special six-song EP titled DELIVERANCE that will be available this coming Friday. The EP disc version will also be released nationwide on June 2.

According to a press release, the six songs were recorded in the studio between 2006 and 2008 when Prince was an independent artist. The majority of sales will benefit Prince's estate.

"I believe ‘Deliverance' is a timely release with everything going on in the world today, and in light of the one-year anniversary of his passing. I hope when people hear Prince singing these songs it will bring comfort to many," Paisley Park engineer Ian Boxill shared in a statement. "Prince once told me that he would go to bed every night thinking of ways to bypass major labels and get his music directly to the public."

He continued, "When considering how to release this important work, we decided to go independent because that's what Prince would have wanted."

The anniversary comes just a few weeks after Prince's sister Tyka Nelson appeared on the ABC special, People Icons: Gone Too Soon. During the interview, she claims that the "Little Red Corvette" singer predicted his death.

"About three years ago he called. He said, 'I think I've done everything I've come to do,'" Tyka claimed. "My dad and Prince always spoke in these types of riddles. He knew [he was going to die soon]. And he was preparing me. It's very clear."

On April 21, 2016, Prince was found dead at his Paisley Park compound. In June, the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office revealed that the singer died of an accidental overdose.

It's all over YouTube, for however long:

And now the release of "Deliverance" has been blocked in court.


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Prince Engineer Ordered to Pay Estate $4 Million Over Unauthorized Release
4/8/2019 by Jem Aswad



A Minnesota judge on Monday ordered a recording engineer to pay Prince’s estate almost $4 million for releasing an unauthorized EP of songs by the late musician in 2017.

George Ian Boxill, who worked with Prince from 2004 through 2008, released the Deliverance EP to streaming services in April 2017 in breach of his contract with Paisley Park Enterprises and the artist, the judge ruled; on the release, Boxill claimed co-writing and co-producing credits with Prince. The release of the EP was almost immediately followed by a lawsuit from the artist’s estate and was quickly removed from streaming services and retailers after a hearing held in Minnesota. During its brief window of availability, the release reached No. 1 on iTunes’ pre-order chart and No. 2 on Amazon’s album chart. Boxill’s business partners, Rogue Music Alliance, LLC, David Staley and Gabriel Solomon Wilson, were also named in the action.

An arbitrator later held that Boxill breached his contract with Prince and awarded the estate $3,960,000. The estate is also pursuing claims for copyright infringement, trademark infringement and improper use of the late superstar’s image and likeness. At the 2017 hearing, Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright of the United States District court issued a temporary restraining blocking Boxill’s efforts to release any of Prince’s music and ordered him to “deliver all of the recordings acquired through his work with Paisley Park Enterprises” and return them to the estate.

Troy Carter, entertainment advisor to the estate, said, “Prince was an exceptionally talented musician. The estate protects the music Prince created aggressively and is pleased with the award against Mr. Boxill.”

Despite the shady provenance of the EP, which was released near the first anniversary of the musician’s death, the songs on it are surprisingly strong — particularly the title track, a bluesy slow-burner with some blazing guitar work, gospel-esque backing singers and a soaring falsetto vocal from Prince. An “opera” included on it is less successful but still intriguing — the four linked segments are dramatically different stylistically, ranging from a simple rocker to a gentle ballad, a complex, almost classical segment and a closing slow groove — as is the longer version of the song “I Am.” The material is strongly reminiscent of Prince’s 2006 album 3121, which dates from the same era and many fans feel is among the best of his later albums.