TVD Radar: Dennis Hopper, The Last Movie OST in stores 4/18

VIA PRESS RELEASE | After the incredible success of the film Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper was given complete freedom to direct and star in the bizarre, surrealist The Last Movie—released in 1971. Filmed in a drug fueled haze in Peru with Hopper, Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Dean Stockwell, Michelle Phillips, Russ Tamblyn, and Samuel Fuller—there has never been a soundtrack to this film until recently.

Featuring the first-ever performances of Kristofferson’s legendary “Me and Bobby McGee” plus sublime country-folk songs from John Buck Wilkin, Peruvian folk & dance music—all recorded live on set in Peru—nothing was overdubbed. Plus, provocative movie dialogue from Dennis Hopper, Sam Fuller and others—coupled with the ambient sounds of the mountains and villages of South America—reissue producer Pat Thomas and Hopper Estate archivist Jessica Hundley have assembled an original listening experience.

Out 18th April, packaging includes rare vintage photos, detailed liner notes, et al. The Last Movie recordings are being released for the first time ever on compact disc—taken directly from the original movie reels.

We’re releasing this CD soundtrack to tie in with Mike Scott & The Waterboys new album: Life, Death And Dennis Hopper to be released via Sun Records. The new Waterboys album is the epic story of the trailblazing American actor and rebel told through a song cycle of 25 original songs tracing the extraordinary arc of Hopper’s life, from his youth in Kansas to his long rise including Easy Rider, tumultuous fall, and ultimate redemption.

Upon hearing Earth Recordings forthcoming Last Movie soundtrack, Mike Scott declared, “A delicious immersive mashup of dialogue, incidental music, Andean horns and drums, singer/songwriter ballads, obscurists and superstars, the first, lost airing of Me And Bobbie McGee, John Buck Wilkin Beatle-ific in his melodies and Kristofferson magisterial at the beginning of his ascendancy. And every now and then Dennis’s charismatic voice, sweetly petulant, and Sam Fuller’s, abrupt and abrasive.”

And then described The Last Movie as: “Hopper’s grand folly, a commercial failure, yet one which stands as a strange, beautiful document, gorgeously filmed, containing elements of genius and passages of hypnotic power, plus most of all a tantalising layer of “what ifs”: What if Dennis had edited it to maximum effectiveness? What if it had established him as an auteur? What if the visual and filmic reality Dennis imagined had become the entertainment mainstream? These possibilities float within the aura of the film, rendering it a fascinating experience for the discerning viewer.”

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