He is a friend of director Ryan Coogler and not entirely new. While I usually know those composers, I actually had to look up Ludwig Gransson when it was announced that he would write the music for Black Panther. Even the sequels are often scored by a different composer. In a phone interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the composer revealed that to help create the score, he and his team traveled to the International Library of African Music in South Africa, which provided him the chance to work with a collection of around 500 various instruments Göransson said don’t really exist anymore. A high number of movies means new scores from various composers as well. The Black Panther soundtrack has been praised for taking well-used musical elements and arranging them in a way that has never been done before, something unheard of for a film as. The more than three-minute video offers fans a peek on the work that went behind the movie's music.

Posted on Black Panther's official Twitter account is a behind-the-scenes clip with commentaries from Coogler, Goransson and even Magette, who is the drummer on the film's score. On the heels of several potentially historic Oscar wins, the music of Black Panther scored two Grammys at the 2019 awards ceremony.Īfter receiving eight album-related nominations, the film’s first of two wins went to its score, which was composed by Ludwig Göransson and serves as the Swedish composer’s third cinematic collaboration with Black Panther director Ryan Coogler. Black Panther (2018) has a distinctive-sounding score, with the composer Ludwig Goransson researching Sengalese music and teaming up with vocalist Baaba Maal. Related: Every Record Black Panther Has Broken.

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