![]() ![]() It’s going to be more of a collective sound of what I’ve been doing in the course of my career.” “There’s some heavy guitar, Mellotron and actual orchestra stuff mixed in with some distortion. It’s going to still be soulful, but I’m flipping to an Eighties, dreamy type of thing on some stuff,” said Saadiq, whose personal playlist has lately included Reagan-era hits by Duran Duran, the Police and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. That means the new music will encompass a wider range of his influences, going back to the moment Saadiq was first recruited by Prince as a teen to play bass in Sheila E.’s band, followed by his years as a hitmaker mingling classic and contemporary soul in Tony! Toni! Tone! The singer-guitarist has been writing and recording for about a month. “I want to put everything together and see what I come out with on the other side. “I’m going to switch it up,” Saadiq tells Rolling Stone. As he begins work on a new album in his Los Angeles studio, he’s already moving beyond the classic soul flavor of 2011’s critically acclaimed Stone Rollin’, which captured the warmth and excitement of Sixties/Seventies funk and R&B for a new generation. Raphael Saadiq has more than one sound ringing in his head these days.
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