Brett Morgen to Release A Kurt Cobain Solo Album This Summer

Just a few days before the wildly awaited HBO documentary Montage of Heck airs on May 4, director Brett Morgen made it clear the exclusive Kurt Cobain videos and recordings haven't come to a halt.

Stumbling upon some unheard solo work completed by the deceased Nirvana frontman, Morgen has compiled a solo LP for Cobain. Morgen was given unrestricted access into the rockers stash and storage areas, chock-full with unreleased musical gems. The Oscar nominated director clued fans in that although the un-heard tracks won't be featured in the documentary, a solo LP will trail the film with a summer release.

"The album of home recordings will feel like you're kind of hanging out with Kurt Cobain on a hot summer day in Olympia, Washington as he fiddles about," he told Bedford + Bowery. "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 was the one to uncover and liberate Cobain's unusual and intense version of the Beatles' hit "And I Love Her," notes MTV News.

"With some of the materials I certainly asked the participants I could access-like Krist Novoselic and [Kurt's ex-girlfriend] Tracy Marander and Courtney-if they knew the provenance of certain materials," he said. "Like the Beatles song, I remember calling them all up and saying, 'Have you guys ever heard this?' And nobody had ever heard it."

Around the time of the Seattle rocker's dark passing, he was seemingly working on a solo project, continuing to "entertain us." The summer LP will give fans a deeper look into the endless creativity Cobain was planning to share with the world.

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