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Nick Cave, the popular and celebrated Australian musician, has, with Grammy winner Desescado , co-written and co-produced a haunting original song for Netflix's Oscar Hopeful Dream Train, which he also sings on, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Cave was inspired to write the song – which is also titled "Train Dreams," and which Luis Almau also produced – after watching Clint Bentley 's film, starring Joel Edgerton as a logger and railroad worker in early 20th-century America, after its world premiere at January's Sundance Film Festival.
"Train Dreams" now plays over the film's end credits and has been added to its soundtrack, which will be released digitally on November 7, with a vinyl release to follow on November 14, along with Dessner's original score. You can listen to a preview of it here:
Train Your Dreams is the next film to grace the Toronto International Film Festival screen, where one of its stars, William H. Macy, will record a live episode of Thr 's Talk podcast – headed for a November 7 release in select theaters and a November 21 debut on Netflix.
The film garnered raves at Sundance and currently sits at 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes . Thr David Rooney wrote, “At the risk of speaking, I adored this perfectly formed film. It elevates Bentley to the League of Essential American Filmmakers.”
“When we started thinking about doing a song for the film, Nick felt like the perfect artist to do it,” says Bentley Thr . “It turns out that [ Denis Johnson ’s 2011 novella] Dream Coach is one of his all-time favorite books, but he was initially afraid there wouldn’t be time to do anything because he was getting ready to go on tour. Then he saw the film and was inspired to write something and it all came together very quickly.”
Bentley continues, "I knew he would craft something beautiful and resonant, but the film has such a delicate tone at the end, one that was really hard to get right, and I didn't want a song that would push the audience in another direction emotionally. But Nick and I were very much on the same page from the outset. He read some early lyrics to me that he was working on and I was just really a bit overwhelmed with the whole situation — I've been a fan of his for such a long time and there I was, a really lovely conversation with him about life and art, but he was also reading me lyrics he was writing for a film I made.
He added in closing: "He's a very rare artist, and one I admire immensely. There's no one thing that defines a Nick Cave song: sonically, lyrically, or otherwise. He has songs about everything, all the varieties of our experience here. There's a deep poetic quality to rock and roll. And that felt perfect for a film like this, the story of this person, who lived a resonant life, ...
