Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq

Release Date: 05/27/2022
Format: 3 X LP
Label: Waxwork Records – WW131
Release type: 180 Gram Colored Triple Vinyl LP Pressing

Waxwork Records is 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.

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.

1. Ardham
2. Atticus Returns
3. Sundown Town
4. Hiding In A Shack
5. Shoggoth Attack
6. Secret Passageway
7. Not Atticus
8. Leti Bought A House
9. Paddy Wagon Talk
10. Voices In The Basement
11. Goat Blood
12. Pipe Burst
13. Chat With The Captain
14. Mama Named A Comet
15. Museum Break-In
16. Writing On The Wall
17. The Vault
18. Leti Walks The Plank
19. The Pendulum
20. Elevator Discovered
21. Tic Is The Key
22. Mummy Found
23. Mummy Transforms
24. Flooded
25. Underwater
26. Cutting Ruby Out
27. Dead Butterflies
28. Hillary Skips The Potion
29. Never A True Believer
30. Truck Of Nurses
31. Taking Ji-ah To Atticus
32. Empty Sex
33. Atticus Loses Virginity
34. Demon Lady Journey
35. Tic Fumes
36. Portal Opens
37. Robots Grab Hippolyta
38. War Training
39. Celestial Hippolyta
40. Tic Shuts Down The Portal
41. Haunting Taunting
42. Family History
43. Shoggoth Saves Tic
44. Multiverse Machine
45. Greenwood
46. Montrose Remembers The Bloodshed
47. Tulsa 1921: Catch The Fire
48. Dee's Transformation
49. Bridge Fight
50. Mortal Immortal
51. Magic Is Ours Nows
52. Full Circle