We all eat with our hands, and it’s the best food I’ve ever had. We all eat from the same plate it’s like goat and rice. It was an extremely beautiful ceremony.īaaba Maal invites us to sit down and eat food with him. Then finally at two in the morning, we come to this tiny house, and Baaba Maal’s assistant tells us, “You can go in there and meet Baaba Maal.” We walk in and we see Baaba Maal sitting in the corner, in a tiny, little room, surrounded by these women and men from the village, dressed up in really beautiful traditional clothing, singing to him, praising him, giving him food, and telling him about what’s going on in their village. My wife turned to me and she’s like, “Did you really talk to Baaba Maal?” I was like, “Yeah, I did! We talked on the phone a week ago.” It’s like 1 AM, we look around, and it’s literally pitch black we’re not even on a road. We got to this little city at 10 PM and we were like, “Aren’t we going to a festival?” And Baaba Maal’s assistant told us, “We’re very close, we’re almost there.” We continued driving for another two hours in the middle of the night.
We started this really long road trip with Baaba Maal’s assistant and a retired police chief, a 14-hour road trip up to northern Senegal. We drove two hours outside Dakar to sleep for the night, and then we got picked up again the day after. We got picked up at the airport by his assistant, and we had really no idea what to expect. He invited me and my wife to come on this African tour, and we flew straight over. But I asked him if he had time to record, or just meet up, and he’s like, “Okay, I’m going on tour in a week. So, I called him the week before, and I didn’t know what I was going to say. So, I bought a ticket to Senegal and a week before my flight, I got a number Baaba Maal, one of Africa’s biggest artists. I really thought that would be a cool sound to have in the movie. I did listen to a bunch of different styles of African music, and there was something about the percussion and the drums of West Africa, and the energy, that felt so cinematic to me. What happened on your trip to Africa? Where did you go, who did you meet, and what did you learn? For the composer, on this trip, what was mystery became magic. That says a lot.”Īlways in sync, Coogler went off on his own journeys through Africa as Göransson did the same, embarking on a twisting and turning journey through Senegal that would change his life. “Then he came to my studio and sat with me from one to four in the morning, working on the score. For Göransson, the benefits of working this way are clear, and reflecting on his own collaboration, he can’t help but admire Coogler, “the guy that gives everything.” “During post-production, he was working at the Disney lot from nine to midnight every day,” Göransson shares. These days, a number of prominent directors are inviting their composer into their process from the start-think Damien Chazelle and Justin Hurwitz ( First Man), or Adam McKay and Nicholas Britell ( Vice).
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“I read it, and I called him right back and said, ‘The only way for me to score this movie would be for me to go to Africa, and immerse myself in the culture, and study and learn the music.'” In the case of Black Panther, the composer’s third film with Coogler, the director “had just written the first draft of the script, and he sent it to me,” Göransson says. Setting out on the pic, the composer had a shorthand in place with Coogler meeting Göransson as a fellow student at USC, the director was one of his first friends in America after moving from his native Sweden to pursue his dream. It was Black Panther, Coogler’s Marvel pic about an African king to be, that brought him his first nods from both the Oscars and the Golden Globes. Sunday night’s were far from the only kudos Göransson has received this season. More Oscars Presenters: Jason Momoa, 'Black Panther' Pair Among Additions
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