Sade have been working on new music, Billboard reports. The band has been recording at Miraval Studios in Correns, France. The French producer and composer Damien Quintard, who co-operates the studio, told Billboard, “You could feel the love that she and the band had for this place.”
Sade last issued an album in 2010 with Soldier of Love. The band returned in early 2018 with “Flower of the Universe,” released on the soundtrack for Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. Sade followed with another soundtrack contribution later that year: “The Big Unknown” for Steve McQueen’s Widows. Between the two singles, band member Stuart Matthewman said the group had “a bunch of songs” underway. Pitchfork has contacted Sade’s representatives for comment on the new project.
Sade have been working on the new material at Miraval Studios, which Brad Pitt owns and co-operates with Damien Quintard. The newly reopened studio—where Sade had previously recorded—is located at Château Miraval, an expansive winery and estate that Pitt bought with Angelina Jolie, his former spouse, in 2012. Château Miraval has been a contested subject as Jolie and Pitt navigate a lengthy divorce. Earlier this month, court documents revealed Jolie’s accusations that Pitt had physically and emotionally abused their children, detailing a 2016 incident on a private plane.
