Kurt Cobain (L, behind baby), with wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Cobain seen here in a file photo. (Photo : Reuter/Fred Prouser)
A solo album of legendary musician and Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, is going to be released this summer. Brett Morgen, director of the upcoming documentary "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck," has declared that he is going to compile 200-hours of home audio in an album that will be released along with the movie.
"It's going to really surprise people," the documentary film director told Bedford+Bowery during an interview. "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 was approached by Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, in 2007 to make a documentary about the singer just like he made for Hollywood producer Robert Evans, using archive footage. The Guardian told that Morgen was given unrestricted access to the Cobain's archive which included 200 hours of audio, 4,000 pages of diaries, home videos, complete editorial freedom and final edit.
In the boxes, Morgen also found about 107 cassettes of Cobain with random audios like jam sessions with Love, his first demo tapes and a lot of silly spoken word stuff along with some fascinating stories of his life in his voice like the one he told of losing his virginity. Morgen decided to compile the brilliant work and release a solo album along with the documentary.
Morgen has claimed that never-heard-before music will give listeners the feel that they are in close contact and kind of hanging out with the late star. The album also include a rough recording of Cobain covering the Beatles' and "I Love Her."
The documentary is co-produced by the late singer's daughter, Frances Cobain. The lead singer and the songwriter of Nirvana was found dead at his home in Seattle under mysterious circumstances. Although the death was ruled as a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound, there is an aura of mystery around the star's death which jolted his millions of fans around the world.
Watch the nerve-tickling trailer of the upcoming documentary below:
