HBO documentary “Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck”, due to hit cinemas next month, will feature a previously unheard Cobain solo track that will give fans another reason to look forward to director Brett Morgen’s forthcoming film.
“Listening to a mind-blowing 12-minute acoustic Cobain unheard track that will be heard on the Montage of Heck soundtrack,” Morgen wrote on Twitter, without sharing other details about the song title or the soundtrack’s release date.
Until then, an accompanying book with a mixture of animation stills, rare photography and other treasures from Kurt Cobain’s personal archive will be released on April 7th. Brett Morgen said that he also tried to put out one of the Cobain’s personal cassettes – “Tape 59: Montage of Heck” – as a special release on Independent Record Store day.
Morgen worked for eight years at Montage of Heck film and says “it’s as intimate you can get”. Before the screening at Sundance festival he mentioned that he actually wanted to make the movie for Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love’s daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
“I wanted to give Frances a couple of hours with her dad, which she never got to have,” he told the audience.
Frances Bean Cobain, who is among the executive producers of the film, also was the key for the film, according to Morgen.
“She is the glue — the movie’s for her,” he said. “Frances and I share the exact same vision of what this should be. People associated with Nirvana, Dave and Krist, wanted to do this for Frances.
Montage of Heck was premiered at Sundance festival in January and will open in UK cinemas on April 10 and in Los Angeles theaters on April 24. TV audiences in the United States will watch it on HBO on May 4. The documentary is supposed to be the first fully-authorised documentary about Kurt Cobain. According to the HBO synopsys, the film provides no-holds-barred access to Cobain’s archives, home to his never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos, personal archives and songbooks. The title Montage of Heck is taken from a musical collage that was created by Cobain with a cassette recorder in about 1988.