Nighttiming is Coconut Records

Coconut Records (band)

Coconut Records is a Los Angeles, California based indie pop musical solo project by Jason Schwartzman , which began in 2006. The debut album, Nighttiming, was released on Schwartzman’s Young Baby Records in 2007. The album had musical contributions by members of Incubus, as well as appearances by...

' 2007 debut album. It was originally released as a digital download

Music download

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. The album was produced by Mike Einziger of Incubus in Casa Chica in Malibu in August 2006. The album is the product of Jason Schwartzman

Jason Schwartzman

Jason Francesco Schwartzman is an American actor and musician. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Hollywood films Rushmore, Spun, I Heart Huckabees, Shopgirl, Marie Antoinette, The Darjeeling Limited, Funny People, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World...

, who wrote all of the songs and performs the majority of the instruments.

CD prints of the album contain several bonus tracks, most of which are demo versions

Demo (music)

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 and alternate takes of songs on the album. Early copies of the CD also included unique Polaroid

Instant film

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 photographs by Schwartzman.

An official music video has been made for "West Coast". It features skateboarding performances by Mark Gonzales

Mark Gonzales

Mark Gonzales , also known as "Gonz" and "The Gonz," is an American professional skateboarder and artist. He is known in the skateboarding world as a pioneer of modern street skateboarding, currently skateboarding's most popular form....

 in Germany

Germany

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.

The song "Summer Day" was featured on the Spider-Man 3 original soundtrack.
The song "West Coast" can be heard in an episode of The OC and can be purchased in the official season four soundtrack. The song "West Coast" also appears in the movie Cloverfield

Cloverfield

Cloverfield is a 2008 American disaster-monster film directed by Matt Reeves, produced by J. J. Abrams and written by Drew Goddard.The film follows six young New Yorkers attending a going-away party on the night that a gigantic monster attacks the city...

, as well as on an official Cloverfield CD (not the soundtrack). It is one of the many tracks played when the party takes place. The song "Nighttiming" makes an appearance as an iTunes bonus track for the Funny People original soundtrack.

"Summer Day" and "The Thanks I Get" were also used in two 2008 advertisements for Dentyne

Dentyne

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 gum.

Track listing

All songs written by Jason Schwartzman.

1. "This Old Machine" – 2:01
2. "West Coast" – 3:32
3. "Back To You" – 4:39
4. "Summer Day" – 2:07
5. "Nighttiming" – 2:51
6. "Minding My Own Business" – 2:19
7. "Slowly" – 4:04
8. "Mama" – 1:33
9. "The Thanks I Get" – 2:24
10. "It's Not You It's Me" – 2:42
11. "Easy Girl" – 2:17
12. "Ask Her To Dance" – 2:55

Bonus track listing

13. (Silence) - 0:58
14. "This Old Machine" (Alternate Clip) - 0:46
15. "West Coast" (Alternate Clip) - 0:39
16. "Back to You" (Part 1) (Alternate Version) - 2:10
17. "Back to You" (Part 2) (Alternate Version) - 1:06
18. "Summer Day" (Alternate Version) - 1:49
19. "Nighttiming" (Alternate Clip) - 1:10
20. "Minding My Own Business" (Alternate Version) - 3:15
21. "Slowly" (Part 1) (Alternate Version) - 2:54
22. "The Thanks I Get" (Alternate Version) - 2:16
23. "Slowly" (Part 2) (Alternate Version) - 0:44
24. "It's Not You It's Me" (Alternate Version) - 1:35
25. "Easy Girl" (Alternate Version) - 1:48
26. "Ask Her to Dance" (Alternate Version) - 1:06

Performance

Jason Schwartzman performs all vocals and instruments except:

• Kirsten Dunst
  Kirsten Dunst
  Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories...
  
   – Vocals on tracks 1, 4
• Zooey Deschanel
  Zooey Deschanel
  Zooey Claire Deschanel is an American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter. In 1999, Deschanel made her film debut in Mumford, followed by her breakout role as young protagonist William Miller's troubled older sister Anita in Cameron Crowe's 2000 semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous...
  
   – Vocals on tracks 7, 12
• Robert Schwartzman – Vocals on track 11
• Jennifer Furches – Vocals on track 8; violin on tracks 2, 5, 7
• Benjamin Einziger - Background vocal choir on track 2
• Branda Colonna - Background vocal choir on track 2
• Brother Jack Elder - Background vocal choir on track 2
• Danny Farrington - Pedal steel
  Pedal steel guitar
  The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
  
   on track 8
• Brandon Boyd
  Brandon Boyd
  Brandon Charles Boyd is an American musician, author, and visual artist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the American rock band Incubus.-Early Life and Incubus:...
  
   - Whistling on track 7
• Ben Kenney
  Ben Kenney
  Benjamin Lee Kenney, Sr. , is a musician from Brielle, NJ, and the bassist for the band Incubus.Ben Kenney played guitar for the hip-hop group The Roots before he joined Incubus in 2003 after the departure of bassist and founding member Alex Katunich aka Dirk Lance...
  
   - Bass on track 5
• Sam Farrar
  Sam Farrar
  Sam Farrar is the bass guitar player for American rock 'n roll band Phantom Planet. The band is now on an indefinite hiatus. His father John Farrar was in the Shadows and also carved a successful songwriting career, penning many of Olivia Newton-John's big hits. His mother, Pat Carroll, was a...
  
   - Guitar on track 10

Production

Nighttiming was produced and recorded by Michael Einziger at Casa Chica, Malibu, CA

California

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 during August 2006, except for track 1, which was produced by Woodrow Wilson Jackson III in March 2006. The album was mixed by Brendan O'Brien at Henson Studios, assisted by Tom Syroski. String arrangements by Syd Goldstein at Fools Goldstein Records. Cover photo by Roman Coppola

Roman Coppola

Roman Coppola is an American film director and music video director.-Early life:Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine while his father was in Paris...

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