NEW ALBUM BY PRINCE

Prince's producer Joshua Welton reveals the studio secrets behind the musician's new album, HITNRUN.

For years, Prince's albums came emblazoned with the legend "produced, arranged, composed and performed by Prince".

But that all changed with last year's Art Official Age, where an unknown musician called Joshua Welton was credited as the megastar's co-producer.

The album gained rave reviews, with Billboard calling it Prince's "most imaginative album since the '90s", while the Chicago Tribune wrote: "Prince sounds not just relevant, but renewed."

So it's hardly a surprise that Welton has been retained at Prince's Paisley Park's studios in Minneapolis; and his second collaboration with the musician, called HitNRun, comes out on Jay-Z's Tidal streaming service next week. 

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, the 25-year-old talks about the recording process, Prince's working practices, and how he ended up in Minneapolis.