Hollywood Records will release a soundtrack album for the National Geographic original documentary event series Africa Earth’s Wild Home. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Grammy Award nominee Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel, The Lost City, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie & The Dino Movie, Stargirl, Slumberland, Loney Planet, Shotgun Wedding, Family Switch). The show’s main theme is written by Toprak & Christian Kolo. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, October 2 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the first track below. Africa Earth’s Wild Home is narrated by Wunmi Mosaku and uses cutting-edge CGI to unearth the deep history and forces that shaped Africa’s natural worlds and the latest technology to tell the stories from the continent.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (September 27, 2026)
Premiering on Thursday, October 1, is the Netflix limited series East of Eden developed by Zoe Kazan based on John Steinbeck’s classic novel of the same name and starring Florence Pugh, Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, Hoon Lee, Tracy Letts, Martha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada and Joe Anders. The show’s original music is composed by Laura Karpman (American Fiction, Captain America: Brave New World, The Marvels, Miss Marvel, Down Cemetery Road, What If…?, The Love Hypothesis, Set It Up, Paris Can Wait, Duster, Marvel Zombies). A soundtrack album featuring the composer’s score will be announced soon. Check out our scoring assignment announcement to learn more about the 7-part drama, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.
Also premiering on Thursday is the Freeform original series Coven Academy created by Tim Federle and starring Malina Pauli Weissman, Malachi Barton, Ora Duplass, Jordan Leftwich, Louis Thresher and Tiffani Thiessen. Gabriel Mann (Modern Family, A Million Little Things, Rosewood, High School Musical: The Musical, The Series, Rectify, Better Nate Than Never, DMV, The Unicorn) is composing the show’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the supernatural teen drama, which will air Thursdays on Freeform and will also be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu.
Pinar Toprak Scoring National Geographic’s ‘Africa Earth’s Wild Home’
Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel, The Lost City, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie & The Dino Movie, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Stargirl, Shotgun Wedding, Slumberland, Loney Planet, Family Switch) has composed the original music for the new National Geographic original documentary event series Africa Earth’s Wild Home. The show is narrated by Wunmi Mosaku and uses the latest technology to tell the stories from the continent and cutting-edge CGI to unearth the deep history and forces that shaped Africa’s natural worlds. The 7-parter documents several species and behaviors for the first time, including the elusive black rain frog, filmed for TV for the first time, and hyenas in the Congo hunting elephants at night.