Stevie Wonder New Album: ‘Superstition’ Singer Reveals New Record With David Foster, First Since 2005’s ‘A Time To Love’

By Andrew Meola | Jun 25, 2013 02:34 PM EDT

Stevie Wonder inducted his friend John Legend into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame on Saturday. During that event, Wonder revealed to Rolling Stone that he is working on a new album with producer David Foster and a whole symphony orchestra.

The untitled album, which would be Wonder's first since A Time to Love in 2005, will contain new songs and remakes of classic tracks, including "Isn't She Lovely."

Here are some excerpts from Wonder's interview with Rolling Stone:

"We talked in December at House Full of Toys, and you had a few projects going. How is your new material coming?

I am doing two different projects at this time. Really, I've been working on three. One that I talked about with you before is Ten Billion Hearts, and David Foster has been talking to me a couple of years about doing some songs that I had done using a symphony orchestra. So we got together New Year's Eve, and we worked out some things. I played some things in a different way and he did some arrangements, and there's some new stuff that I wrote that never was released. One song that I wrote when I was 13 - Tony Bennett did it a long, long time ago, called 'This Town,' but I'm gonna do it on this album. And there's a song I wrote recently - I actually wrote the music 15 years ago or longer - called 'When the World Began.' And I wrote the words, like, last week.

Is the symphony album then a mix of both old and new songs?

It is a lot of things that I have done, old material, but doing it a different way. I'm going to do about three or four new songs as well. We did 'Isn't She Lovely' with the orchestra and I wrote another verse to it. And we did 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' - myself and Take 6 with the orchestra.

How do these songs change for you doing them a different way?

The way that I did it, the original way, I enjoyed that. This is just another interpretation, and we did the arrangement a little differently and it turned out really, really good. I'm really excited about it."

Check out the full interview here.

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