Sade is releasing her first new music for years as part of a new compilation project.
The musician is set to release ˜Young Lion as part of the ˜Transa benefit album, which will arrive on November 22. It s the first new music from the musician since a soundtrack offering in 2018.
The project has been assembled by non-profit Red Hot, on what aims to support transgender awareness and spotlight both trans and non-binary artists. As per Variety, ˜Young Lion is dedicated to Sade s son Izaak, who identifies as a transgender man.
Dust Reid, who put the compilation project together alongside artists Massima Bell, said: We started talking about all the gifts that trans artists have been giving to the world, and wanted to create a Red Hot project that centered and celebrated those gifts.
We hoped to create a narrative that positions trans and non-binary people as leaders in our society insofar as the deep inner work they do to affirm who they are in our current climate. We felt this is something everybody should do. Whether you identify as trans or non-binary or otherwise, if you took the time to explore your gender, get in touch with the feeling side of yourself, maybe we would have a future oriented around values of community, collaboration, care, and healing.
˜Transa features over three-and-a-half-hours of music and includes a mix of covers and exclusive tracks from artists including Sam Smith, André 3000 and Jeff Tweedy. Moses Sumney also appears on the album covering SOPHIE.
The project has over 100 contributing artists in total, and is structured across eight chapters and 46 songs in reference to the eight-stripe rainbow pride flag.
The first single shared from the project arrived today from longtime Prince collaborators Wendy & Lisa alongside Lauren Auder. They have covered ˜I Would Die 4 U, which you can listen to below:
˜Transa which has been stylized as ˜TRAИƧA has eight chapters: Womb of the Soul, Survival, Dark Night, Awakening, Grief, Acceptance, Liberation, and Reinvention.
Check out the full list of songs here:
Chapter I: ˜Womb of the Soul
01 Mary Lattimore / Laraaji / Mizu / Jamal Shakeri: ˜Midnight Moon Pool
02 Devendra Banhart / Blake Mills / Beverly Glenn-Copeland: ˜You Don’t Know Me
03 Jeff Tweedy / Claire Rousay: ˜How Sweet I Roamed
04 Heart Shaped / Christian Lee Hutson: ˜Same Train
Chapter II: ˜Survival
05 Ana Roxanne / Nsámbu Za Suékama: ˜Star
06 Lightning Bug: ˜Please Tell Me
07 Benét / Faye Webster: ˜Make Em Laugh
08 Julien Baker / Calvin Lauber: ˜Get Me Away From Here, I m Dying [ft. SOAK and Quinn Christopherson]
09 Soft RÅnin: ˜Rumblin [ft. Frankie Cosmos]
10 Hand Habits: ˜Deeper Understanding [ft. Bill Callahan]
Chapter III: Dark Night
11 Hunter Schafer / Cole Pulice: ˜Under the Shadow of Another Moon
12 Grouper / Lucy Liyou: ˜Blush
13 Moses Sumney: ˜Is It Cold in the Water?
14 Anajah / Gary Gunn: ˜Know Who You Are at Every Age
15 Niecy Blues: ˜Is It Over Now? [ft. Joy Guidry]
Chapter IV: Awakening
16 André 3000: ˜Something Is Happening And I May Not Fully Understand but I m Happy to Stand for the Understanding
17 Nina Keith: ˜Come Back Different [ft. Julie Byrne and Taryn Blake Miller]
18 Rachika Nayar: ˜Song to the Siren [ft. Julianna Barwick and Cassandra Croft]
19 Arthur Baker: ˜Love Hymn [ft. Pharoah Sanders]
20 L Rain / Voices From the NYC Trans Oral History Project: ˜People Are Small / Rapture
Chapter V: Grief
21 Jlin / Moor Mother: ˜We ve Been Through So Much
22 Kara Jackson / Ahya Simone / Dave Longstreth: ˜My Name
23 Perfume Genius / Alan Sparhawk: ˜Point of Disgust
24 Lomelda / More Eaze: ˜In Another Life
25 Teddy Geiger / Yaeji: ˜Pink Ponies
26 Yaya Bey: ˜A Survivor’s Guilt
Chapter VI: Acceptance
27 Helado Negro / Eileen Myles: ˜Just Last Night
28 Ezra Furman / Sharon Van Etten: ˜Feel So Different
29 Gia Margaret: ˜Mourning Dove
30 Adrianne Lenker: ˜Feel Better
31 Allison Russell / Ahya Simone: ˜Any Other Way
32 Asher White / Eli Winter / Caroline Rose: ˜Down Where The Valleys Are Low
33 Fleet Foxes / Cole Pulice / Lynn Avery: ˜TM’
34 AV MarÃa / Sky / Belina Rose: ˜Querube
Chapter VII: Liberation
35 Green-House / Kelela: ˜Within Without
36 Cassandra Jenkins / Bloomsday / Babehoven: ˜Aaron
36 Sade Adu: ˜Young Lion
38 Moses Sumney / Lyra Pramuk / Sam Smith: ˜You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
39 Clarity: ˜Many Ways [ft. Clairo]
40 Sparkle Division: ˜I Feel Free [ft. Pepper MaShay]
Chapter VIII: Reinvention
41 Nico Georis / KB Brookins: ˜Get Free
42 Bartees Strange / Anjimile / Kara Jackson: ˜Wolf Like Me
43 Laura Jane Grace: ˜Surrender Your Gender [ft. Lee Ranaldo, Jayne County, Kathi Wilcox, Jay Dee Daugherty and Am Taylor]
44 Lauren Auder / Wendy & Lisa: ˜I Would Die 4 U
45 Time Wharp / Elizabeth / Beverly Glenn-Copeland: ‘Always’
46 Sam Smith / Beverly Glenn-Copeland: ‘Ever New’
Last year, it was revealed that Sade had been recording new music at Miraval Studios in France, which have been freshly renovated and reopened by Brad Pitt and producer Damien Quintard.
The news was revealed in a Billboard cover story in which both Pitt and Quintard were interviewed, with the pair sharing that Sade have visited Miraval Studios in the time since its renovation.
Quintard spoke of Sade frontwoman and solo artist Sade Adu, saying that you could feel the love that she and the band had for [Miraval Studios] . Quintard went on to explain that the band “ who previously recorded at the studio during its active years in the 2000s “ are one of the acts with a special connection [to] Miraval that can t really be explained.
It s a dream come true to see this place activate again, Quintard said. The pair s comments “ which also included Pitt referring to Sade as royalty “ were echoed in a separate interview with Spin, where Quintard called Sade very special [for] the legacy of the studio .
Sade was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame earlier this year.
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