2018 soundtrack album by Ramin Djawadi
Westworld: Season 2
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Released
| June 25, 2018
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Genre
| Soundtrack
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Length
| 99
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16
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Label
| WaterTower Music
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Producer
| Ramin Djawadi
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- "Runaway"
Released: February 5, 2018
- "Heart-Shaped Box"
Released: March 29, 2018
- "Seven Nation Army"
Released: May 6, 2018
- "Paint It, Black"
Released: May 20, 2018
- "C.R.E.A.M."
Released: May 20, 2018
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Westworld: Season 2
is the second soundtrack of the American television series
Westworld
, composed by
Ramin Djawadi
. Released on June 25, 2018, the day after the season finale aired,
[1]
the album includes 29 pieces composed for the show.
[2]
Comprising mostly original compositions by Djawadi, the album also includes more
cover versions
of modern songs, with adaptations of tracks released by
Kanye West
,
The White Stripes
,
Nirvana
,
Wu-Tang Clan
and
Radiohead
, plus a second arrangement of
The Rolling Stones
' "
Paint It Black
".
[1]
[3]
[4]
Background
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]
Djawadi has explained that the use of seemingly-
anachronistic
cover versions is intended as "a subconscious reminder of the fact that this world is not real".
[5]
Having originally come up with the idea of using a
player piano
to play modern songs,
[6]
as an allusion to the hosts being machines "created to evoke human emotion",
[6]
showrunner
Jonathan Nolan
chooses songs that relate to the narrative,
[5]
for Djawadi to adapt, without the composer necessarily knowing the details.
[7]
With season 2 showing viewers other parks run by Delos, Djawadi was given the opportunity to experiment with
South
- and
East
-
Asian
sounds, for "The Raj" and "Sh?gunworld".
[5]
Using
The White Stripes
's "
Seven Nation Army
" to introduce The Raj,
[3]
[5]
a
British Raj
-themed park, and show that it is a Westernized fantasy,
[5]
Djawadi found it difficult "to master the
intonation
", playing the melody on a
sitar
.
[5]
The Rolling Stones
' "
Paint It Black
" had been used for a
heist scene
in season 1 and was adapted again, using
taiko
drums and
shakuhachi
flutes for a shot-for-shot remake of the heist scene, to show the parallels between Westworld and
early-modern Japan
-themed Sh?gunworld.
[3]
[5]
[8]
The adaptation of
Kanye West
's "
Runaway
" was used in the first trailer for season 2,
[3]
with cacophonous, discordant sounds overwhelming the piano and strings "represent[ing] how quickly things can fall apart now that the park has gone wrong".
[5]
While starting each adaptation with a "piano reduction",
[5]
much as he did when arranging songs as a teen,
[9]
Djawadi created both a "big
orchestral
arrangement" of
Nirvana
's "
Heart-Shaped Box
" for the series' second trailer,
[3]
before adapting that back down to a slower piano version for a more emotional scene in the episode "
Kiksuya
".
[5]
[8]
Djawadi has spoken of his respect for
Kurt Cobain
as a composer and songwriter: "Even without lyrics and just the melody and how recognizable the piece is, it's actually quite incredible how [Heart-Shaped Box] holds up in an orchestral setting like this".
[7]
Several pieces share titles with episode names: episodes 1 "
Journey into Night
", 3 "
Virtu e Fortuna
" ("Virtue and Fortune" in
Italian
?a reference to
Niccolo Machiavelli
), 5 "
Akane no Mai
" (
Japanese
for "Akane's Dance", Akane being a character in Sh?gunworld),
[5]
7 "
Les Ecorches
" ("The
Flayed
[people]" in
French
?a reference to
ecorche
, a style of artwork depicting the
human body
without skin), 8 "
Kiksuya
" (
Lakota
for "Remember") and 9 "
Vanishing Point
".
Track listing
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All music by Ramin Djawadi, except where noted.
[10]
[11]
Title
| Key scenes/Notes
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1.
| "Main Title Theme - Westworld"
| Used for the opening credits sequence.
| 1:41
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2.
| "Journey into Night"
| "
Journey into Night
"
| 5:29
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3.
| "
Runaway
"
| "
Reunion
": The track is a piano arrangement of the song of the same name by
Kanye West
.
| 2:48
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4.
| "Myself"
| "Journey into Night"
| 4:02
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5.
| "
The Entertainer
"
| "Journey into Night": This track is an orchestral rearrangement of the classic rag of the same name by
Scott Joplin
.
| 1:06
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6.
| "Is This Now?"
| "Journey into Night"
| 4:23
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7.
| "
Seven Nation Army
"
| "
Virtu e Fortuna
": The track is a sitar arrangement of the song of the same name by
The White Stripes
.
| 2:12
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8.
| "The Raj"
| "Virtu e Fortuna": The track features an Indian-influenced rendition of "Sweetwater".
| 2:47
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9.
| "Les Ecorches"
| "Virtu e Fortuna"
| 4:12
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10.
| "
Heart-Shaped Box
" (orchestral)
| It was used in the second trailer for this season. The track is an orchestral arrangement of the song of the same name by
Nirvana
.
| 3:24
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11.
| "Akane no Mai"
| "
Akane no Mai
"
| 3:33
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12.
| "
Paint It, Black
"
| "Akane no Mai": The track is a Japanese-influenced rendition of the song of the same name by
The Rolling Stones
.
| 5:42
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13.
| "
C.R.E.A.M.
"
| "Akane no Mai": The track is a Japanese-influenced rendition of the song of the same name by
Wu-Tang Clan
.
| 1:46
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14.
| "Virtu e Fortuna"
| "
Les Ecorches
"
| 2:18
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15.
| "A New Voice"
| "
Phase Space
"
| 3:30
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16.
| "Kiksuya"
| "
Kiksuya
"
| 3:23
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17.
| "I Remember You"
| "Kiksuya"
| 5:22
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18.
| "
Heart-Shaped Box
" (piano)
| "Kiksuya": The track is a piano arrangement of the song of the same name by Nirvana.
| 1:24
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19.
| "Take My Heart When You Go"
| "Kiksuya"
| 4:10
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20.
| "Virus"
| "
The Passenger
"
| 2:52
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21.
| "My Favorite"
| "
Vanishing Point
"
| 3:35
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22.
| "Vanishing Point"
| "Vanishing Point"
| 3:01
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23.
| "My Speech"
| "The Passenger"
| 1:17
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24.
| "A Passage to Another World"
| "The Passenger"
| 4:14
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25.
| "I Promise"
| "Kiksuya"
| 4:34
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26.
| "Core Drive"
| "Les Ecorches"
| 3:53
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27.
| "Westworld"
| "The Passenger"
| 5:21
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28.
| "
Codex
"
| "The Passenger": The track is an orchestral arrangement of the song of the same name by
Radiohead
.
| 3:34
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29.
| "We'll Meet Again"
| "The Passenger"
| 3:10
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Total length:
| 99:16
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Reception and accolades
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The soundtrack received favorable reviews and peaked at number 23 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.
[12]
Writing for SoundtrackDreams.com, Mihnea Manduteanu described "A New Voice" as being a "pivotal cue ... played with soft, Asian strings, the searing way in which those strings are played, it's another piece that shows how much care the composer had for
Maeve
and her arc in this season".
[13]
The score for the episode "
Akane no Mai
" was nominated for the
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series
Emmy, but was beaten by Djawadi's own score for the
Game of Thrones
episode "
The Dragon and the Wolf
".
[14]
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Charts
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Awards and nominations
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References
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"
Westworld
Season 2 Soundtrack Now Available"
(Press release).
WaterTower Music
. June 25, 2018
. Retrieved
August 31,
2019
.
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Westworld: Season 2 (Music from the HBO® Series)
at
Discogs
. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
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a
b
c
d
e
Matt Miller (June 11, 2018).
"The
Westworld
Soundtrack Is Just as Ridiculous in Season Two"
.
Esquire
. Retrieved
August 30,
2019
.
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Adrienne Gibbs (July 31, 2018).
"Revisiting The Music Of
Westworld
Season 2, And What Each Song Means"
.
Forbes
. Retrieved
August 30,
2019
.
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a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
Devon Ivie (June 25, 2018).
"How
Westworld
Season Two Made Its 5 Best Piano Covers"
.
Vulture
. Retrieved
August 31,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Bobby Olivier (April 16, 2018).
"
Westworld
Rocks: Revisiting That Stellar Season 1 Soundtrack"
.
PopCrush
. Retrieved
September 1,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Daniel Kreps (March 30, 2018).
"
Westworld
Composer Talks 'Epic' Take on Nirvana's 'Heart-Shaped Box'
"
.
Rolling Stone
. Retrieved
September 1,
2019
.
- ^
a
b
Samuel Gelman (June 23, 2018).
"
Westworld
Composer Breaks Down 3 of Season 2's Musical Highlights"
.
TVLine
. Retrieved
September 28,
2019
.
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Richard Trenholm (May 22, 2018).
"Behind the music of
Game of Thrones
,
Westworld
and
Iron Man
"
.
CNET
. Retrieved
September 28,
2019
.
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"Westworld: Season 2 (Music from the HBO® Series)"
.
iTunes
. June 25, 2018
. Retrieved
June 25,
2018
.
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"Westworld: Season 2 (Music from the HBO® Series)"
.
Amazon
. Retrieved
June 25,
2018
.
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"
Westworld: Season 2: Music From The HBO Series
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.
Billboard 200
. Retrieved
August 31,
2019
.
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Mihnea Manduteanu (July 7, 2018).
"Soundtrack review:
Westworld
(season 2) (Ramin Djawadi ? 2018)"
.
Soundtrack Dreams
. Retrieved
September 28,
2019
.
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"Ramin Djawadi"
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Emmy Awards
.
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
. Retrieved
September 1,
2019
.
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a
b
"70th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) - 2018"
.
Emmy Awards
.
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
. Retrieved
September 1,
2019
.
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"Ultratop.be ? Soundtrack ? Westworld - Season 2"
(in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
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"Official Soundtrack Albums Chart Top 50"
.
Official Charts Company
. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
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"Soundtrack Chart History (
Billboard
200)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
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