Interview with The Movie Podcast, Ludwig Göransson explained the massive collaborative effort that it took to make the music for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”
“They recorded on four different continents with two completely different cultures,”The Oscar winner spoke. “One is inspired by Mayan music, the other one is African, we recorded most of it in Nigeria. We also recorded in London with a 70-piece orchestra … we recorded 40 different artists with completely different backgrounds singing and making songs together, but how to make all that come together and feel connected for this movie, that is something special.”He continued to describe how he traveled to Mexico and Nigeria to work with Mayan musicians and music archeologists to create the film’s immersive score. “I feel so fortunate to be able to go around and collaborate with so many incredible musicians and artists all over the world,”He added.
While Göransson certainly pushed himself for the latest Marvel epic, this wasn’t the first time he poured so much into research and cultural collaboration. This is the first. “Black Panther,” Göransson worked with Senegalese artist Baaba Maal on his tour where he experimented with a variety of different instruments. He later went to South Africa where he went to the International Library of African Music in Grahamstown to listen to various recordings with instruments that existed before colonization took over the country (via Pitchfork).