Kurt Cobain’s Montage of Heck soundtrack released today
The accompaniment to the critically acclaimed documentary
After weeks of build-up, the soundtrack to the critically lauded Kurt Cobain film Montage of Heck has been unleashed today (13th November).
Available on CD, cassette and digital formats, Kurt Cobain - Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings boasts rare and unreleased Kurt material and is released as a 31-track deluxe album and 13-track standard edition.
The album is whittled down from over 200 hours of previously unheard Kurt Cobain songs drawn from his private tapes.
Montage of Heck director Brett Morgen said of the album to Rolling Stone: "I curated the album to create a feeling that the listener was sitting in Kurt's apartment in Olympia, Washington, in the late Eighties, and bearing witness to his creation.
“It furthers not just our understanding of Kurt's process, but represents yet another angle, another side of Kurt - an artistic outlet that he was not necessarily able to work with in the context of a three-piece-band."
The title, Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck takes its name from a musical collage that was created by Cobain with a 4-track cassette recorder in 1988.
The HBO documentary from which the soundtrack is spawned was released to widespread acclaim upon its release back in April.
According to the plot synopsis, the film ‘follows Kurt from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame and creates an immersive cinematic insight into an artist who craved the spotlight even as he rejected the trappings of fame.’
Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck is also available to buy on DVD right now.