New Kurt Cobain album featuring previously unreleased music coming out this year
The record has been compiled from the 200 hours of music tapes locked away in Cobain’s storage facility
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Your support makes all the difference.A new Kurt Cobain record featuring previously unreleased music will be coming out later this year, according to documentary maker Brett Morgen.
The director of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck has said that the album will be made up of home recordings that will make you “feel like you’re kind of hanging out with Kurt Cobain on a hot summer day in Olympia, Washington as he fiddles about”.
Morgen was given unrestricted access to Cobain’s storage facility, where he was able to sift through boxes of home videos and cassettes for his documentary.
During his exploration of the storage room, Morgen found 200 hours of never-before-heard music, from which the record has been put together.
“It’s going to really surprise people. Just to be clear, it’s not a Nirvana album, it’s just Kurt and you’re going to hear him do things you never expected to come out of him,” Morgen told Bedford and Bowery.
Among the audio material that Morgen had access to, there were jam sessions with wife Courtney love, Nirvana and other friends, and even Beatles covers.
Morgen explained that there were some tracks that Love had not heard or knew existed, including the Beatles cover versions.
Along with the music, there was also “a lot of silly spoken word stuff and not-silly spoken word stuff”, such as Cobain explaining how he lost his virginity.
According to Morgen there were 107 tapes of music, including a previously unheard 12-minute acoustic track that has been featured in the documentary.
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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is the first official authorised look at the troubled Nirvana frontman’s life with his daughter Frances Bean serving as executive producer on the film.
The documentary will be premiering on US television on HBO on 4 May.
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