In 2019 actor Seth Green made his directorial debut with the intimate and personal Changeland.
It took a minute, but last week Green finally saw his vision realized with a limited edition vinyl release of the soundtrack, which includes music from Lorde, Coldplay, Gotye, MGMT, Otis Redding, Albert Hammond Jr.
And my greatest wish was that we would get to release it on vinyl because I’m still a child of a tactile experience, who appreciates the intimacy that you get from exploring a physical vinyl and reading all of the notes or pictures or lyrics that the artist intended to share with you.
Some of that had to do with knowing how many we wanted to put out and timing it around some marketplace incentive to make it even possible for people to see this record, hear about it and want to buy it.
So, for me, they’re so intimately entangled in all of those feelings that I feel them all the more raw now because I’ve not just imagined this emotional accompaniment that they would help create for the audience, but I’ve gotten to realize it with an actual expression from all these actors, from everybody that worked on the movie.
With every movie that I’ve loved that has great music I’ve had my own separate experience with the soundtrack, from Stand By Me and Dirty Dancing to Lost Boys and Guardians Of The Galaxy.
And I thought about that like, “I’m gonna back pocket that and just come to you when I have something to talk about.” And then he mentioned it to me maybe a year later and I said, “I will be back in two weeks with a picture to cut and I would love to show you and get your sense of how this feels to you musically.
Thailand’s a crazy place and when I went on my trip and went to so many of these places that I was able to then depict in a dramatic manner for the benefit of the movie there’s a moment where there’s a party happening and there are bars everywhere and there are dozens, if not hundreds of people, it feels relatively lawless and like anything could happen.
I have had countless amazing experiences in music, from tea with Neil Young and hanging in a limo with Stevie Wonder to drinking beer bongs with the Foo Fighters in Vegas and being onstage with Skrillex.