Assassin’s Creed shanty è una vasta raccolta di canti marinareschi per il famosissimo videogioco Assassin’s Creed.
David Gossage, Nils Brown, Michiel Schrey, Seán Dagher e Nelson Carter, sono il nucleo de La Nef che negli anni 2012-2013-2014 fecero parte della crew quando Assassin’s Creed si avventurò per mare!
Nella quarta puntata dal titolo Black Flag (2013) la trama è un’intricata vicenda basata sui ricordi del pirata Edward Kenway ed è ambientata nel mare dei Caraibi in un arco storico che va dal 1715 al 1721.
Sea Shanty per tutti!
Come già sottolineato da più parti, per quanto il lavoro svolto dai creatori del videogioco Assassin Creed abbia portato le canzoni marinaresche in auge tra i giovani, si è trattato di una mistificazione: molti dei canti sono del secolo successivo e ogni riferimento alla cultura afro-americana che ne è stata per buona parte la fonte è volutamente ignorato.
Le richieste della Ubisoft Entertainment erano inoltre rivolte ad ottenere una colonna sonora in “stile pirata” di ruvida gente di mare e anche un po’ sguaiata e male accettava arrangiamenti più “armonizzati”.
Ma tanto di cappello per l’enorme produzione articolata in una serie di Cd e in particolare Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag (Sea Shanty Edition, Vol. 1 e 2) e Assassin’s Creed Rogue (Sea Shanty Edition) il sequel del video-gioco distribuito nel 2014.
Sono raccolte non solo canzoni marinaresche ma anche ballate e canzoni del mare, antiche drinking songs (canti di taverna) e qualche rebel song.
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Assassin’s Creed shanty is a vast collection of seafaring songs for the world-famous video game Assassin’s Creed.
David Gossage, Nils Brown, Michiel Schrey, Seán Dagher and Nelson Carter, are the core of La Nef who in the years 2012-2013-2014 were part of the crew when Assassin’s Creed ventured to sea!
In the fourth episode entitled Black Flag (2013) the plot is an intricate story based on the memories of the pirate Edward Kenway and it is set in the Caribbean Sea in a historical arch that goes from 1715 to 1721.
Sea Shanty for everyone
As already underlined by many parties, although the work done by the creators of the video game Assassin Creed has brought maritime songs in vogue among the young, it was a mystification: many songs are from the next century and all references to African American culture source has been deliberately ignored.
Ubisoft Entertainment’s requests were also aimed at obtaining a “pirate-style” soundtrack of rough seafarers and even a little coarse and badly accepting more “harmonized” arrangements.
But hats off for the huge production articulated in a series of CDs and in particular Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag (Sea Shanty Edition, Vol. 1 and 2) and Assassin’s Creed Rogue (Sea Shanty Edition) the sequel of the video game released in 2014.
Not just sea shanties, but ballads and sea songs, ancient drinking songs (tavern songs) and some rebel songs.
Assassin’s Creed III (2012)
Haul on the Bowline
Press Gang / Aboard a Man O’war
Away Haul Away / Haul Away Joe
Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag (Sea Shanty Edition, Vol. 1 e 2)- 2013
ADMIRAL BENBOW
ALL FOR ME GROG
BILLY RILEY
BLOW AWAY THE MORNING DEW
BULLY IN THE ALLEY
CAPTAIN KIDD
CAPTAIN WARD (Child #287)
CHEERLY MAN
COASTS OF HIGH BARBARY (Child #285)
DEAD HORSE
DERBY RAM
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
DRUNKEN SAILOR
FATHOM THE BOWL
FISH IN THE SEA
GOLDEN VANITY (Child #286)
GOOD MORNING, LADIES ALL
HANDY ME BOYS
HAULEY HAULEY HO
HERE’S A HEALTH TO THE COMPANY
HI-HO COME ROLL ME OVER
HOMEWARD BOUND
JOHNNY BOKER
LEAVE HER JOHNNY
LOWLANDS AWAY
MAGGIE LAUDER
MAID OF AMSTERDAM
NIGHTINGALE
PADDY DOYLE’S BOOTS
PADSTOW’S FAREWELL
PATRICK SPENS
RANDY DANDY-O
RIO GRANDE
ROLL AND GO
ROLL, BOYS, ROLL! (Sally Brown)
ROLLER BOWLER
RUNNING DOWN TO CUBA
SAILBOAT MALARKAY
SO EARLY IN THE MORNING
SPANISH LADIES
STORMALONG JOHN
TROOPER AND THE MAID
WILD GOOSE SHANTY
WILLIAM TAYLOR
WHERE AM I TO GO M’JOHNNIES
WHISK(E)Y JOHNNY
WORST OLD SHIP
Assassin’s Creed Rogue (Sea Shanty Edition) -2014
BLOOD RED ROSES
BOLD RILEY
BONNIE LASS O’FYVIE
DONKEY RIDING
DON’T FORGET YOUR OLD SHIPMATES
GO TO SEA NO MORE
HAUL AWAY JOE
HEAVE AWAY MY JOHNNY
HENRY MARTIN (Child #250)
HI FOR THE BEGGERMAN
JOLLY ROVING TAR
KATIE CRUEL
LITTLE DRUMMER
LIVERPOOL JUDIES
MY BONNIE HIGHLAND LASSIE
NEW YORK GIRLS
ONE MORE DAY
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
PAY ME THE MONEY DOWN
PADDY LAY BACK
ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI
ROUND THE CORNER SALLY
SHALLOW BROWN
STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN
WE BE THREE POOR MARINERS
WINDY OLD WEATHER
YE JACOBITES
