Two soundtracks by Jack Johnson are getting reissued on vinyl, over 20 years after their launch. The soundtracks to the documentaries Thicker Than Water and The September Periods, each directed by Johnson himself and centered on browsing, will likely be obtainable for pre-order beginning on Monday, September 29.
Earlier than he was a singer and songwriter recognized for laid-back tracks like “Banana Pancakes” and “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing,” Johnson was a child rising up in Hawaii with a ardour for browsing. He was additionally keen on movie, learning it in school. In 1999, Johnson directed his first documentary, Thicker Than Water, which featured a variety of skilled surfers doing their factor in numerous unique locales, together with Hawaii, Eire, Australia, India, and Indonesia. The second, totally titled The September Periods: The Tomorrowland Story Introduced To Life In Good 16mm Movie, centered on a bunch of surfers in Sumatra.
For movies, Johnson would rating the browsing scenes and enlist different musicians for the soundtracks. “I’d watch the stuff on the screen and I’d just kind of play guitar along to it,” he recalled in an interview with The Canine And Surfer Roads, describing the way it was recorded on a four-track cassette in a bed room. “And the idea was we were going to go into a studio once we finished and record all the songs properly but came to the end and we just never did it. We just ended up using all the four-track versions. So the first movie, Thicker Than Water, is just all little four-track cassette recordings of the guitar and there’s no voice on that one, it’s just all instrumental. The second one has a little singing.”
For the soundtracks themselves, nonetheless, Johnson introduced the abilities of musicians like G. Love & Particular Sauce, The Meters, Smoke Metropolis, and Finley Quay to the desk. The soundtrack for The September Periods additionally options Johnson’s cowl of “Pirate Looks At 40” by Jimmy Buffet.
Order The September Periods and Thicker Than Water on vinyl now.
