LOS ANGELES, April 24 — Troy Carter, an entertainment advisor whose company Atom Factory is overseeing Prince’s archives, has revealed in an interview that an album of previously unreleased material is in the works.

Carter told Variety that since his team got involved with the estate, the late icon’s musical archives have been transported to a facility in Los Angeles, where they are being restored and organized and, in some cases, readied for release.

“First and foremost, it was about organizing the vault and finding out what music exists, what footage exists, photos, personal notes, letters,” he told Variety. “Prince basically saved everything, so there are decades of music and video and artefacts, but it takes a long time to go through each one of those and research the historical context: where is this from, who did he collaborate with, where was it recorded, what year, was it the final version?”

According to Carter, the recent release of Nothing Compares 2 U on the second anniversary of the artist’s death was the first music to come from the collaboration with the estate, with a full-length album slated to follow on September 28.

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While offering little in the way of concrete details about what music might be included, he teased, “Michael Howe, who’s been working with us on the archive, has done a tremendous job of finding some special pieces of work, and one of the pieces that he found, all of us fell in love with it and decided this was special enough for fans to hear.”

The album news comes soon after publishing agent Esther Newberg revealed, also to Variety, that Prince’s long-awaited memoir, of which he had delivered 50 handwritten pages before his death, is expected to be published ahead of the holiday season. — AFP-Relaxnews