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7/02/2007
Exclusive: Eddie Vedder Scores Penn's 'Wild' With Near Solo Album
Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder has written
an entire album's worth of original songs for Sean Penn's new directorial effort, "Into The Wild," that stars Emile Hirsch. The soundtrack CD featuring music in the film and inspired by the movie will essentially be the closest thing Vedder has ever come to releasing a solo album and is due September 18. According to IMDB, the film is scheduled for a September 21 release and Academy Award winner composer Gustavo Santaolalla ("Babel," Brokeback Mountain") has also contributed original instrumental score for the film.
Based on the John Krakauer novel about the mysterious Alaskan adventure of wanderer Christopher McCandless, Vedder is no stranger to songs written for film, or working with Sean Penn. The throaty tenored grunge singer wrote two songs for Tim Robbins' "Dead Man Walking" directorial effort (which starred Penn) that featured the late Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Vedder covered the Beatles' "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" for the Sean Penn film, "I Am Sam," among lots of other small contributions to film, but this is his first real solo effort).
The trailer confirms the PJ's singer participation and says "original songs by Eddie Vedder" (and it also appears that
Vedder has a small role in the film as he is in the cast credits as well).
Much of the film was also shot in Seattle which explains some if not all of the Vedder connection. The trailer also features "He Lays in the Reigns," a track from the recent Iron & Wine and Calexico collaborative album.