Chelsea Walls - Jeff Tweedy . However, those expecting a healthy dose of either UT's punk- fueled roots rock or Wilco's smart and adventurous pop are in for a disappointment; Tweedy's twangy side has been in steady retreat over the past couple years, and the closest the album gets to showing a country influence is the presence of .
Chelsea Walls is a 2001 independent film directed by Ethan Hawke and released by Lions Gate Entertainment. It is based on the play Chelsea Walls by Nicole Burdette. It stars Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman, Rosario Dawson, and. There's also another unreleased Wilco cut, the low- key . But the bulk of the album is made up of atmospheric and often atonal pieces performed by Tweedy and Wilco percussionist Glenn Kotche, which usually amount to minimalist noodling from Tweedy on guitar and/or piano while Kotche holds down a rhythm. For the most part, this sounds like film music - - which is to say, taken outside of its context and divorced from its images, this music doesn't sound like much all by itself. The press release for the Chelsea Walls soundtrack compares Tweedy's score to Neil Young's music for Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man, a comparison that's all too apt - - like Dead Man, Chelsea Walls will be of interest to fans of the composer, but it's hard to imagine even completists pulling this off the shelf very often after a couple of listens. Better to buy Tweedy's album with experimental musician Jim O'Rourke, or Wilco's groundbreaking Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. This digital-to-film indie stew boasts many well-known indie ingredients (Vincent D'Onofrio, Kevin Corrigan, Uma Thurman, Robert Sean Leonard, Steve Zahn), stirred by such busy indie hands as director Ethan Hawke and producers.
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