Please download and share this tribute recording of a record that means so much to us. It’s a documentation of a living connection. Where many of the electronic elements of the original had been beautiful to me, to listen to this new live-instrument sound Ivan had quick-captured is to listen directly to his evolving relationship with the music. Upon first listen to Ivan’s version of Love Deluxe, I was struck by how organic it is. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions. It’s only elements are the instruments Ivan drove down with, and the friends who stopped by to contribute-Rob Lackey, drums Matt Douglas, Saxophone Jonathan Yu, keyboards. I was delighted when he came back to Brooklyn and presented me with his own fully-tracked version of Love Deluxe. He’d gone to the beach to enjoy the off-season isolation, to surf, and to work on some new Rosebuds demos we have. Ivan spent some time on the North Carolina coast where he set up a small apartment-a surf camp and home studio. Ivan’s been covering Sade songs since I’ve known him-he sings them in the house, he sings them while driving, he sings them with or without a guitar in hand, he sings them when he doesn’t even realize he’s singing aloud.
To say this album is a constant influence to The Rosebuds and the records we've made over the years would be an understatement. Love Deluxe, Sade’s fourth album, was released 20 years ago this week.
