Lovecraft Country - Soundtrack From The HBO Original Series by Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq 3xLP Vinyl Record (Coloured Vinyl)
“But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn't make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though. But you don't get mad.”
Airing in 2020, "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.
Waxwork Records are thrilled to present "Lovecraft Country - Soundtrack From The HBO Original Series by Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq" as a deluxe and expansive triple album set. Pressed across three 180 gram colored vinyl records and housed in a heavyweight triple gatefold jacket featuring matte satin coating and artwork by Ngabo D. Cesar (El'Cesart) and Sam Gilbey.
Pressed on Marbled, Coloured Vinyl
TRACKLISTING
Side A:
- Ardham
- Atticus Returns
- Sundown Town
- Hiding In A Shack
- Shoggoth Attack
- Secret Passageway
- Not Atticus
- Leti Bought A House
- Paddy Wagon Talk
Side B:
- Voices in the Basement
- Goat Blood
- Pipe Burst
- Chat With The Captain
- Mama Named a Comet
- Museum Break-In
- Writing On The Wall
- The Vault
- Leti Walks The Plank
Side C:
- The Pendulum
- Elevator Discovered
- Tic Is The Key
- Mummy Found
- Mummy Transforms
- Flooded
- Underwater
- Cutting Ruby Out
- Dead Butterflies
- Hillary Skips the Potion
Side D:
- Never a True Believer
- Truck of Nurses
- Taking Ji-ah to Atticus
- Empty Sex
- Atticus Loses Virginity
- Demon Lady Journey
- Tic Fumes
- Portal Opens
- Robots Grab Hippolyta
Side E:
- War Training
- Celestial Hippolyta
- Tic Shuts Down the Portal
- Haunted Taunting
- Family History
- Shoggoth Saves Tic
- Multiverse Machine
- Greenwood
- Montrose Remembers the Bloodshed
Side F:
- Tulsa, 1921: Catch The Fire
- Dee's Transformation
- Bridge Fight
- Mortal Immortal
- Magic Is Ours Now
- Full Circle
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Score begins at track 11 in web-player below.
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