Sound artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe unveils original score for Candyman

Exploring mirror play through an uncanny mixture of field recordings, string, and mutated vocals.

Musician and sound artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is releasing his score to the 2021 film Candyman, via Waxwork Records this August.

Directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, Candyman presents a modern retelling of the 1992 classic.

Aiming to compliment the themes of mirror play and folklore within the film, Lowe used manipulated vocals, electronically crafted string sounds, bass made from stringed instruments, and field recordings.

“Also, I would consider the importance of the Blackness and the Black experience in the story. Understanding as a Black artist the pain and trauma of history for Black bodies. I was thinking about legends and ghosts,” shares Lowe.

Candyman follows the reissue of his Levitation Praxis Pt 4 album — one of our favourite records from July.

Check out the artwork and tracklist below in advance of Candyman’s 27th August release.

Tracklist:

2. The Sweet

3. Music Box

4. Row Houses

5. Graffiti

6. Rows and towers

7. What’s Candyman?

8. I Thought We Could: The Turn

9. Joke Summoning

10. End of Clive and Jerrica

11. Brianna Finds Bodies

12. Brianna’s Mirror Dream

13. The Library

14. Elevator

15. Frantic Painting

16. You Should Say It

17. End of Finley

18. Frantic Cycles

19. The Story of Daniel Robitaille

20. Brianna In The Studio

21. The End Of The Kids

22. Anthony’s Arm

23. Got Taken

24. Anthony Called To Row Houses

25. The Laundromat

26. Young William

27. Leaves A Stain

28. William Chases Brianna

29. End of Burke

30. Brianna Says His Name

31. Music Box (Reprised)

32.Cabrini Walk

33. Cabrini Walk II

34. The Bridge