Frank Ocean Has Plenty Of Unreleased 'Blonde' & 'Endless' Material
Turns out that Frank Ocean has plenty of unreleased Endless and Blonde recordings that may or may not ever see the light of day.
In an interview with Pitchfork, guitarist Billy "Spaceman" Patterson, who worked on both albums, said that there's hours of material that didn't end up making it on to either release.
"There's a lot of stuff that we recorded that I still haven't heard yet," Patterson said. "We recorded a lot of music."
According to the story Patterson and Ocean were often involved in lengthy studio sessions, as the former contributed acoustic and electric guitar, as well as guitar synthesizer work while recording.
"We'd go in the studio for a long time," Patterson said. "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.'"
Endless credits Patterson for guitar on "In Here Somewhere," "Rushes" and "Deathwish (ASR)." He said he's also on Endless tracks "Slide on Me" and "U-N-I-T-Y.” On Blonde, the artist has contributions on "Nights"; "Skyline To"; "Seigfreid"; "Ivy"; and "Pink & White."
In other Ocean related news, the elusive artist might have given his first (and probably only) interview of the year with Zane Lowe.
"Frank and I have known each other for a few years. So he trusts me enough to get on FaceTime," Lowe said in an interview with the Evening Standard magazine. "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 then added:
"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: we don't have a time, we don't have a location and there's a freedom in that which makes it incredibly exciting to be working in this modern framework."
So at least if we never get these extra recordings hopefully we'll be getting a new interview.