Flag Day soundtrack, featuring new music from Eddie & Olivia Vedder, Glen Hansard and Cat Power, is out today.
Among the thirteen songs, there are five unreleased ones written and performed by Eddie Vedder with Glen Hansard: Flag Day, Tender Mercies, Rather Be Home, Wave and I’ll Be Waiting already played by them in a benefit of 2019.
Flag Day sountrack also includes My Father’s Daughter, written by Vedder and Hansard and performed by Olivia Vedder (Pearl Jam singer’s daughter, at her own debut on the record), There’s A Girl with a duet between Eddie and his daughter (with Glen Hansard on background vocals), and a R.E.M cover, Drive, recorded by PJ singer.
In a statement, Sean Penn said, “After this flood of gorgeous songs from Cat Power, Glen Hansard, and Eddie Vedder, we were just about to do a final mix on the film when Ed sent me Olivia singing My Father’s Daughter. It became just the perfect cherry on top of the sundae.”
In the soundtrack – available in the coming months on vinyl and CD (the release day has not been confirmed yet) – there are some Cat Power’s new songs (I Am A Map, Dream, I Will Follow and Kristján Kristjánsson cover I Think of Angels) and also a new song by Glen Hansard called As You Did Before, co-writes with Vedder.
The first recordings for Flag Day soundtrack took place on october 2019 in Los Angeles, with Ed Vedder & Glen Hansard. After few months, Pearl Jam singer spent two weeks in studio, where he was joined by Cat Power. The recordings were completed in latest months of ’20 during the lockdown in Ed Vedder’s studio in Seattle.
Flag Day official soundtrack is available for vinyl & CD preorder at pearljam.com.
FLAG DAY SOUNDTRACK
1. My Father’s Daughter
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Olivia Vedder
2. Flag Day
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
3. I Think Of Angels
Written by Kristján Kristjánsson
Performed by Cat Power
4. Tender Mercies
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
5. Rather Be Home
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
6. I Am A Map
Written by Chan Marshall
Performed by Cat Power
7. As You Did Before
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Glen Hansard
8. There’s A Girl
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Olivia Vedder, Glen Hansard, and Eddie Vedder
9. I’ll Be Waiting
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
10. I Will Follow
Written by Chan Marshall
Performed by Cat Power
11. Wave
Written by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
Performed by Glen Hansard and Eddie Vedder
12. Drive
Written by R.E.M.
Performed by Eddie Vedder
13. Dream
Written by Chan Marshall
Performed by Cat Power
Flag Day is a 2021 American drama film directed by and starring Sean Penn. His daughter Dylan Penn co-stars. It premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The movie tells of a father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter. It is scheduled to be released today by United Artists Releasing.
In the video below, Eddie Vedder tells the genesis and some curiosities about the Flag Day soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFj5IlFQJTR8Oh69dwI2rMVRJdi2nNsJl
Born in Reggio Emilia in 1980. He created pearljamonline.it in 2001 and wrote the first edition of “Pearl Jam Evolution” in 2009 along with his wife Daria. Since 2022, he is behind 2 podcasts: “Pearl Jam dalla A alla Z” and “Fuori Orario Not Another Podcast”. He has collaborated with Barracuda Style, HvsR, Rolling Stone, Rockol and Il Fatto Quotidiano. He continues relentlessly to try to find “beautiful melodies that say terrible things”.
Favorite song: Present Tense
Favorite album: No Code
Favorite bands/artists other than PJ: Tom Waits, Soundgarden, Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, IDLES, Fontaines D.C., The Murder Capital, Mark Lanegan, Cat Power, R.E.M.