Saleka and Kid Cudi Join For 'Divine' Track on 'Raven' Album

Following the worldwide premiere of TRAP in New York City this week, Columbia Recording artist, songwriter, musician, and producer SALEKA and GRAMMY Award-winning rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor, Kid Cudi join for her latest track, DIVINE, taken from the highly anticipated album, LADY RAVEN (Original Music From The Motion Picture TRAP) out on August 2.

LADY RAVEN (Original Music From The Motion Picture TRAP) features music composed, produced, and performed by SALEKA for the Warner Bros. Pictures film TRAP in which she makes her feature film acting debut. Featuring special guests Kid Cudi, Russ, and Amaarae, LADY RAVEN (Original Music From The Motion Picture TRAP) boasts 14 original songs, each crafted specifically to the script and narrative of the film, blending SALEKA's classical piano training with her distinct dark-pop-R&B production and tonality.

"There's a duality to the Soundtrack," SALEKA notes. "I wanted to make an album that could stand on its own and embody the sounds and genres I love. At the same time, every song was made for a specific scene with clear intention. Having the external storyline made the process so inspiring though. I could write in a way that was incredibly free since I wasn't thinking about myself. I ended up editing myself less and exploring facets of my own emotions that I would be too scared to dive into without having Lady Raven to speak through."

In TRAP, her character "Lady Raven" performs a powerhouse concert as a gripping and thrilling story unfolds concurrently. She penned the songs to entwine with her father's script, so the rhythm of the music and the story symbiotically depend on one another. Simultaneously, she mined an expansive emotional and sonic spectrum.

SALEKA and her dad, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, had always shared an appreciation for music-driven films and long dreamed of a collaboration. They essentially built TRAP from kitchen table conversations. "Purple Rain is one of our favorite movies," she says. "Film and music often go hand in hand in our culture, they are equally important in Bollywood movies. The concept for Trap came from family conversations in the kitchen about wanting to bring these two art forms together in our own way. I wrote a lot of the songs at my parent's house in the living room. This project felt like home, but allowed me to try musical ideas I never had before. It's so pure and special to me."

TRAP stars SALEKA alongside Oppenheimer's Josh Hartnett, a doting father taking his teen daughter to an arena concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event. The story, taking place in near-real time, is interwoven into the concert itself, during which SALEKA gives an exhilarating onstage performance as the fictional artist "Lady Raven."

TRAP will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, in theaters nationwide on August 2.

LADY RAVEN (ORIGINAL MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE TRAP) Track List

Don't Wanna Be Yours
Save Me
Placebo
Care For You
Release
Liar
Hiding (feat. Russ)
Empathize
Love You
Dead End
Dreamer Girl
Divine (feat. Kid Cudi)
Where Did She Go
Pieces (feat. Amaarae)

About Saleka

As if channeling music out of the shadows and into the moonlight, Saleka conjures an incomparable sound from a confluence of classical training since childhood, a lifelong passion for R&B, and her Indian heritage. At just four-years-old, the Pennsylvania-born singer, songwriter, producer, and pianist commenced piano lessons. Beyond spending three hours per day at the instrument, other styles surrounded her. She listened to the likes of JAY-Z, Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Amy Winehouse, and Jeff Buckley with her father, while she also absorbed her mother's passion for Bollywood movies and Latin music. In between visiting conservatories to potentially continue her classical training at the college level, she recognized a deep desire to compose and write songs. Attending Brown University, she studied music production, engineering, and theory. Following her graduation, she crafted her independent full-length debut LP, SĆ©ance. It introduced her voice, songwriting, and production. Garnering praise from WWD, Rated R&B, and many more, Forbes hailed it as "stunning," and NYLON christened her "a figure to watch in the R&B space." Beyond supporting the likes of GIVĒON, Andra Day, Boyz II Men, Summer
Walker, and K. Michelle on the road, her music surged through film and television. She contributed seven original tunes to the Apple TV+ favorite Servant and "Remain" to the big screen blockbuster OLD. Accenting earthy production and live instrumentation with unexpected elements like tablas and flute, she envisions a new paradigm for popular music. This vision gets shocked to life via her star turn as "Lady Raven" in TRAP, and her accompanying Pop/R&B album (which she performed, wrote, and co-produced) and more to come.

About Trap

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, TRAP stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Night Shyamalan, Hayley Mills and Allison Pill. The film is produced by Ashwin Rajan, Marc Bienstock and M. Night Shyamalan. The executive producer is Steven Schneider.

The director of photography is Sayombhu Mukdeeprom. The production designer is Debbie de Villa. It is edited by NoĆ«mi Preiswerk and the music is by HerdÄ­s Stefănsdŏttir. The music supervisor is Susan Jacobs; the costume designer is Caroline Duncan. The VFX supervisor is Javier Marcheselli. The casting is by Douglas Aibel.