Sappy is taken from an upcoming compilation of Kurt Cobain’s home recordings
This summer Brett Morgen, director of Kurt Cobain film Montage of Heck will be digging further into the archives he used to create the film to release an album of as-yet-unheard Kurt Cobain solo recordings. The album will be called Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings and consists of demos, acoustic versions and experimental music that Morgen says “will feel like you’re kind of hanging out with Kurt Cobain on a hot summer day in Olympia, Washington as he fiddles about.”
Speaking to Kim Masters of KCRW Morgen recently spoke about his reasons for doing the compilation, “I went into the archives — this could be too strong a word — I liberated a lot of material for the film. The primary motivation at that moment was for [daughter] Frances [Bean Cobain].” He said, “I finished the film and there was all this other music. No one asked me to do anything. I just started cutting the thing together and telling the estate they should put this out. Initially, I thought it would be a nice complement to the film… I don’t have any financial stake in the album.”
Today one of the recordings from the album has surface on YouTube. It’s a low-key version of the Nirvana song Verse Chorus Verse retitled Sappy. The song first appeared as a full band cut on the charity compilation No Alternative back in 1993 but this version sees Kurt alone with an acoustic guitar strumming melancholically.
Listen to Sappy in the player below.
