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Wed Sep 21, 2016 03:31PM
Frank Ocean allegedly has hours of unreleased music from his Blonde and Endless album sessions.The mysterious musician kept fans waiting for a follow-up to his Grammy-winning 2012 debut album Channel Orange, and surprised the music industry when he dropped visual album Endless and 17-track LP Blonde last month (Aug16).
Now Billy ´Spaceman´ Patterson, a veteran session guitarist who worked on both albums, has revealed in a new interview Frank has tons of unreleased music still to come.
"We’d go in the studio for a long time," Spaceman told Pitchfork. "Our sessions are like, man, we had like 14-hour, 15, 16-hour sessions. So there’s a whole lot of music that we wind up covering... we’re creating continually. So something may happen and (Frank might) say, ‘Oh, that’s nice, let’s try this here.’"
The guitarist, who has worked with Miles Davis, James Brown, and Stevie Wonder, also hinted Ocean has been secretive in his recording sessions.
"There’s a lot of stuff that we recorded that I still haven’t heard yet,” he explained. "We recorded a lot of music."
Notoriously mysterious musician Frank refused interviews with most media outlets after he dropped his surprise albums, but reportedly granted an impromptu interview to Beats 1 radio DJ Zane Lowe last week (beg12Sep16).
Lowe spent 48 hours traveling to and from Tokyo to meet with the hip-hop star after the pair couldn´t find the time to connect over video calling on FaceTime.
"Frank and I have known each other for a few years. So he trusts me enough to get on FaceTime. But if (that interview) doesn’t work and it’s not coming together, there’s that moment where you have to ask yourself: ‘How badly do you want to deliver this for Frank, and for the audience? And is this going to be the best way to do both?’" he shared.
"Deciding within a few hours to jump on a plane for Tokyo to interview Frank Ocean, and getting the go-ahead from him by text - ‘Yeah, do it, get on a plane’ - and that’s all we have... there’s a freedom in that which makes it incredibly exciting," Zane added.