Laura Karpman & Raphael Saadiq – Lovecraft Country: Original HBO Series Soundtrack – Vinyl LP

Coloured Vinyl, High Quality, Gatefold Sleeve, Deluxe Edition

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.

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.

Disc: 1
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

Disc: 2
1 The Pendulum
2 Elevator Discovered
3 Tic Is the Key
4 Mummy Found
5 Mummy Transforms
6 Flooded
7 Underwater
8 Cutting Ruby Out
9 Dead Butterflies
10 Hillary Skips the Potion
11 Never a True Believer
12 Truck of Nurses
13 Taking Ji-ah to Atticus
14 Empty Sex
15 Atticus Loses Virginity
16 Demon Lady Journey
17 Tic Fumes
18 Portal Opens
19 Robots Grab Hippolyta

Disc: 3
1 War Training
2 Celestial Hippolyta
3 Tic Shuts Down the Portal
4 Haunting Taunting
5 Family History
6 Shoggoth Saves Tic
7 Multiverse Machine
8 Greenwood
9 Montrose Remember the Bloodshed
10 Tulsa, 1921: Catch the Fire
11 Dee’s Transformation
12 Bridge Fight
13 Mortal Immortal
14 Magic Is Ours Now
15 Full Circle