Göransson showed the trailer for the highly anticipated Black Panther movie opening in February 2018. The trailer, like the film itself, was scored by Göransson. First, despite the fact that I had seen the trailer before, seeing it up on a large screen with good speakers blasting the drums and base of Göransson's composition was breathtaking.
The composer talked about how he traveled to Senegal and South Africa recording local musicians to form what he called the ”base" of his score for the movie. Göransson played about 45 seconds of this ”base" score, which contained a several musical instruments that I didn't recognize with a very distinct, almost conversational sound. If the final score was, in fact, inspired by this music, we can likely expect that it will differ somewhat from the traditional ”heroic" scores we are used to.