Brian May and Roger Taylor have recorded nine new songs with Paul Rodgers and they've booked more studio time for October. They're working towards a release for next year.

Rodgers talked to Billboard about his collaboration efforts with the remaining members of Queen.

"With Queen and myself, it's a very organic thing. We're letting it sort of develop itself naturally and not pushing it or giving it any pressure. We go in, just the three of us. Roger gets on the kit, Brian gets on the guitar, I get on the acoustic guitar and piano, either/or, and then we share the bass line afterwards," Rodgers said.

Rodgers also talked about May's talent and described the way things generally work in the studio. He says May has a solid grip on the signature harmonies of Queen.

"What happens is he can hear the song line and then he can hear all the harmonies on top of it. We can't hear them, but when we go out in the studio he tells us what line we should sing. He knows exactly what he's doing and we don't know what it's going to sound like, but when we go back into the studio and the engineer puts everything up we all go, 'Holy smokes, listen to that! So that's the genius of the harmonies," Rodgers said.

Rodgers has been touring with Queen since 2005 and the collabo released a DVD last year.