Composer Joe Wong Debuts New ‘Russian Doll’ Cue Spanning Main Themes From Both Seasons

deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track recorded for Netflix’s Russian Doll, which is set for digital release on a Seasons 1 & 2 soundtrack tomorrow via Gardener Recordings, as the show returns for its second season.In its first season, debuting in 2019, Russian Doll introduced viewers to a woman named Nadia (Natasha Lyonne), who is caught in a time loop as the guest of honor at a seemingly inescapable party, one night in New York City.

She dies repeatedly, and always restarts at the same moment at the party, as she tries to figure out what is happening to her.Season 2 is set four years after Nadia and her fellow looping human Alan (Charlie Barnett) discover a time portal that sends them both on an era-spanning adventure through the past.

Now, once again, the two must search for a way out of the loop together. Wong’s latest soundtrack release features dream-like highlights from the show’s breakout first season, as well as cues from the second, taking the listener on a journey through life, death, space and time.Lyonne, who co-created the series with Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, says that in many ways, she thinks of Russian Doll “as a musical, with the score serving to bridge and guide us through the rollercoaster of Nadia’s puzzle box adventure.”With the new season, the co-creators wanted to use “the investigative beats” of Season 1 as “a jumping-off point to an ever more dense and psychedelic landing.”“The score to Russian Doll is constructed much like the eponymous nesting doll,” notes Wong. “I developed a series of leitmotifs which can function alone or nested inside one another, resulting in fugue-like cues.”This season, the composer continues, Russian Doll‘s characters travel back to historical Hungary, as