Lovecraft Country OST – Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq –180 Gram Vinyl 3 LP

Waxwork Records is proud to present the LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Soundtrack From The HBO Original Series by Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq.

Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name. The series follows a young black man who travels across the segregated United States in the 1950’s in search of his missing father, learning of dark secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H.P. Lovecraft based the location of many of his fictional tales.. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome the racist horrors of Jim Crow era America and terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback novel.

Showrunner Misha Green asked composers Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq to capture a sound she coined ‘gothic R&B,’ which the pair flawlessly produced, combining influences from J Dilla, 1960’s string work, & 18th century classical. Karpman describes the score as “the Twilight Zone meets Raphael Saadiq.”

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Karpman and Saadiq faced many challenges creating the score, but agree that ultimately, they wouldn’t have gotten the extraordinary sound they achieved had they undergone the traditional recording process. To achieve the full orchestra sound the creators wanted during the height of the pandemic, each member of the orchestra had to learn how to use pro-tools in order to record themselves while isolating in their own homes all over the world. To ensure the best sound quality, everything was close-miked, giving the score period authenticity by using the same techniques composers like Bernard Hermann (Psycho, Taxi Driver)l & Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes) would have used in the 1950’s and 60’s. Additionally, the musicians had no conductor, so Karpman relied heavily on music notation to achieve ‘aleatoric music’ or ‘chance music,’ which is usually attained directly from conductor cues.

Side A

A1 Ardham

A2 Atticus Returns

A3 Sundown Town

A4 Hiding In A Shack

A5 Shoggoth Attack

A6 Secret Passageway

A7 Not Atticus

A8 Leti Bought A House

A9 Paddy Wagon Talk

Side B

B1 Voices In The Basement

B2 Goat Blood

B3 Pipe Burst

B4 Chat With The Captain

B5 Mama Named A Comet

B6 Museum Break-In

B7 Writing On The Wall

B8 The Vault

B9 Leti Walks The Plank

Side C

C1 The Pendulum

C2 Elevator Discovered

C3 Tic Is The Key

C4 Mummy Found

C5 Mummy Transforms

C6 Flooded

C7 Underwater

C8 Cutting Ruby Out

C9 Dead Butterflies

C10 Hillary Skips The Potion

Side D

D1 Never A True Believer

D2 Truck Of Nurses

D3 Taking Ji-ah To Atticus

D4 Empty Sex

D5 Atticus Loses Virginity

D6 Demon Lady Journey

D7 Tic Fumes

D8 Portal Opens

D9 Robots Grab Hippolyta

Side E

E1 War Training

E2 Celestial Hippolyta

E3 Tic Shuts Down The Portal

E4 Haunting Taunting

E5 Family History

E6 Shoggoth Saves Tic

E7 Multiverse Machine

E8 Greenwood

E9 Montrose Remembers The Bloodshed

Side F

F1 Tulsa, 1921: Catch The Fire

F2 Dee's Transformation

F3 Bridge Fight

F4 Mortal Immortal

F5 Magic Is Ours Nows

F6 Full Circle

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UPC: 728028508963
Release Date: 05/27/22