Tweedy, Jeff: Chelsea Walls (CD)

Soundtrack from Academy Award-Nominated actor Ethan Hawke’s
2001 film.
The same year of his Oscar®-nominated performance in Training
Day, Ethan Hawke made his full-length film directorial debut with
Chelsea Walls (starring Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman, Vincent
D’Onofrio, Robert Sean Leonard, and more). A fan of Wilco, Hawke
approached Jeff Tweedy about scoring the film, and Tweedy
agreed.
Around this time, Tweedy had collaborated with musician and
producer Jim O’Rourke (Sonic Youth, Stereolab) for a special live
performance. As fate would have it, O’Rourke had been working
Glenn Kotche, and O’Rourke introducing Tweedy to Kotche would
lay the groundwork for the trio’s work together on the debut album
by their band, Loose Fur. Tweedy also asked Kotche to work with
him on an improvised soundtrack to the movie he had agreed to
score. The relationships moved past Loose Fur and the Chelsea
Walls soundtrack. Wilco was in the process of a creative sea change,
the result of which would be the modern-day masterpiece, Yankee
Hotel Foxtrot. Kotche joined Wilco and O’Rourke mixed Yankee
Hotel Foxtrot.