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Erik Killmonger, a character played by Michael B Jordan, black Panther, is set in the fictional african nation of Wakanda and coming up how's the story of doing research and making recordings in Africa and how incorporated those into the score for the film and just There are some spoilers coming up. Nothing made but if you're someone like me who avoids trailers and wants to go into a movie with a clean slate before you see it, this is you're spoiler for everyone else. the Ludwig Goransson on song Exploder My name is Linda Goranson. The director Panther is Ryan Coogler I met Ryan at U S c one of my roommates was in the film directing program and one night, Ryan came over to the house because his classmate was my roommate so We played pool together

and then we just started talking and one of the first things that mean Ryan was talking about. Remember was swedish music like he knew. So much about swedish ban sweet artists, those like how do you know these people and That's how we bonded I was Twenty three and Ryan was twenty one, and he was too his first student film and he approached me because I think I was the only film composed Avenue. So so he asked me if I wanted to score his film and he was such a cool guy. So obviously I said yes, as always soon films and always feature films with black Panther. After I had gotten the gig things. Thank you. ask me for I wanted to do it like we're talking about the movie like we're already doing it together, so I went to the comic store and read up on my bike panther than I read the comics, it was right when Ta Nehisi Coates started to write the comics. I bought a couple of his issues and

started reading it and I was just drawn into that world. our conversations of what kinda was and where it was and what countries it looked like Brian went to Africa. He did research, he showed me a bunch of his videos from his journey and he sent me the old pictures and Semi's inspiration and music that I loved. He came back and started to write script and he sent me a first draft very early on right after I read it. I call O'Brien and told them my impressions of the script, how much I loved it and the only way for me to be able to do. This was for me also do the same kind of research and get that experience and then my trip to go there, went to Senegal for three weeks: the swedish friend of mine who has worked with bottom. All one of Africa's there this artist

he has had a career for forty five. Fifty years is done collaborations we had so many different artists. All over the world Obama's telephone number and I call them- and he was just about to leave on tour, but he was like just come with me. and then we'll take it from there. So they did. Some of the airport and we're gonna go to show and had no idea what to expect. We drive to stage his small stage built up in this tiny little village and behind the stage there's like one hundred donkeys and like their donkey carts, so people traveled from Lex running villages. We see What we found some people sitting on the stage and has been waiting for his concert and and dissipation is very high and speeches so charge at once so happy. At four in the morning this show starts the energy is insane

He starts singing and people go up to him and put money in his pockets. The and it's basically just good party for three hours until the sun comes up. So the end result of all of this was after touring with him for about a week. I to borrow his studio. I had seen all these sick instrumental lists which are called Rios in Greece is a word in Africa for storyteller, so if you're musician, your a storyteller admit, met, many different Rios and invited them to come record Winnie. The first thing it first day was to record Sabar Drums was a family of some boardroom players,

recorded for five hours and they a bunch of different rhythms. After that, I second day I had a kora player come and Cora my euro, whose but most assistant and who helped me, assemble the musicians together. We set for it I just talked about all the different instruments that would be available and he told him, but the fool, a flute. LA flute is from a tribe called Fulani. The fool our tribe and they have their own type of flute, is like a wooden flute. It's a very specific sound and he knew a fool. The player. So we took the car and we picked up this player and his name is I'm Adieu bar soon, as we got back to the studio start playing, and I was

shocked by the sound of it, and I was like this does the commissioner to me having? where the script is just connected to me with his character, so I pulled the flute player aside and use my translator to tell him about Killmonger Erik Killmonger A is First, I told him of the cause of the movie. It's a superhero movie, Killmonger is the bad guy, but he has good intentions he wants to in the world better, but in the way that he sees it, he is very impulsive, but he's super smart he's from Africa, but he grew up in Oakland and grew up in America. Coming to Africa to take the throne and he's very unpredictable. start really mysterious and then

I've been lying all raise a glass in the whole mysterious and he'll. Ok, I get it because a door, and I gave him a note in the strings. I started playing very mysteriously first super soft, and I can just see him transform into this character. Oh and then he was ramping up ramping up the entities suddenly boom. You just hit a high note and then scream Q under longer that

Who just went crazy on the flute draft, as I got goosebumps as a kid? This is business expression, after I from Africa. In my studio in L, I was trying to assemble all these tracks and try to see what I could take this music. I have the Killmonger. And I had these low strings they recorded under it in a at two Michael B, Jordan, as he was preparing for the role as swell like Canada, my third movie with Ryan Cooler, but it's also my third movie with Michael Jordan, who's, just incredible actor, and it special treat for a composer to to be able to be a part.

someone's journey like that and every time I see Michael, be Jordan in the scene. It uses comes out of the screen and just immediately just inspires me I'll leave my entire life waiting, a trade alive to kill me Angers theme was one of the most Difficulties to write because he's character, it was really complex and it took some time before I understood we layer of character and to me, the music is trying to place character. this piece of music, it's four layers in the first layer is the piano melody.

Hmm, the first time you see Killmonger in the movie, you see him with his back turned against you. He is at a museum in London and he is talking to this curator about these artifacts and you don't really have an idea who he is. You don't know what his intentions are. The piece of music starts very soft starts mysterious and what is doubling the piano, the which to me kind of represents his genius background. You know Atlanta, and did some really expensive training in the military and when a piano melody turns into the strings. It also kind of translates to his suffering.

And then the string in the heart kind of goes together in unison. I just love the sound of strings and harp together made it little more sad to me like an old story. I listened Alot Bach lately, some of that inspiration of that letter came from, but especially, Matthew passion, the There's a couple of seconds in the scene where you kind of understand that okay Killmonger is there for a reason and that reason is to take back something that doesn't belong to the museum, so

Second layer is the flute which represents his african background. All his flute is the recording with Amadou. But it stood down in the beginning and then all the sudden. These escalates into this chaos with his flute and these things just going up and up in arpeggio, the in the scene, the curators is falling down on the ground. You don't know what's wrong it or like they should just get food poisoning or something worse, the escalates and goes bigger. The you see the empties running up to her. You think okay they're going to take care of, and then some the claw just turns around and just shoots her.

but the music just cuts out and the eighty eight stars. This is for the first time in the movie, where things just get dangerous and it comes just at an hour. These eight awaits when you have this low base and is coming out with the irreplaceable use is like a kid. It feels like almost like heartbeats, like ok, I'm sitting by the age. My see here, these areas- is the second section of kill. Monger seem and assist stably Sheng. What is yet to come? So the third layer is the trap rap beat. Production, which represents him think from Oakland. I worked it. A lot of rapporteur is above artists and produced a bunch of albums and songs, and I think this production style is inspired by Metro, Boomin

another no complaints by what would you die- and I was trying to I up with like a beat that could sound like that and then when What comes together with the strings in sake, metro booming meets back I took em adduced flute and it pick one of the yells, and I pitched it down like knocked over something- and I got this really cool weird, ah sound that the chemical layer to his q and then the fourth

where is the punctuation of his character, which is like the don't? Don't don't? The strings were recorded in London at the legendary Abbey Road studios within ninety two piece orchestra. With Forty piece choir I just needed that sound to just add onto like the mystery in the drama Hmm. In the film its eventually revealed that air commander and to China, whose the black Panther and the king of will conduct the two of them are cousins in other hasn't. So I wanted musically too in a trainer themes as well. One of the things that

came from Killmonger steam, which is the flute melody. Hmm is basically the theme for the challenge to buy it. played in the brass and like very royal, like big confident way and their a in the movie. When you go into the central plane, you have the same theme playing for the ancestors, but with the strings because their ancestors- and that really translates to this- is really about family

It's family commander is such an interesting character in some ways a lot of people freedom and so many people and then to fight with him and can understand what has been going through his hat an extremely difficult life. Finding his father dead growing up without a mom, not having really any idea of his identity to have a character like that get a screen time in a big movie like that that so many people can I understand, but still be called the villain. I think it's genius and now

here's the Killmonger cue from the black Panther score by Ludwig Sorenson in its entirety,

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