Temeraire. A song and a request for recs

[aletheiafelinea]

I've fallen in love with a certain song, so I thought, why not to share it?

Comments

[eglantine_br]

It is lovely. Thank you for the translation.

[aletheiafelinea]

My pleasure.

[anteros_lmc]

Heh, I've just written a post about the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival . If you go to the Festival website there are links to many of the performers, although I can't personally recommend any of them. I also posted a few other things that might be of interest: AoS Playlist 1, AoS Playlist 2. Many of the songs here are not "real" shantys but I think they're wonderful regardless. If you want the real stuff I can highly recommend the programme on shantys and ballads that Radio 4 broadcast from HMS Victory to commemorate the anniversary of Trafalgar in 2005. If you send me a DM I'll forward a link.

ETA Sorry, I should also have said, gorgeous translation and I am looking forward to listening to the song later :)

[aletheiafelinea]

Oh, thank you, this looks interesting!

[nodbear]

Thank you for the song and the translation - have a couple of CDs I could recommend but need to look them up and at moment in a bit of a rush

will send you a message later if that is ok

[aletheiafelinea]

Thank you, but I wouldn't like to cause unnecessary trouble. I'm looking for something available online. But if you can point band names, that would be great. :)

[nodbear]

will do when get a moment !

[aletheiafelinea]

Ooh, that sounds promising, thank you! Especially this: ten-strong 'manband' (no ladies' voices, for me, in shanty) and this: gorgeous body of sound. I'm looking for great arrangement and performance, like in the clip above. On the other hand, that's not the best example of their best 'classic' ones, but at least there's the skill shown. I'm glad you like it!

[isiscolo]

You are surely familiar with the Polish sea-shanty band Mordewind?

The Canadian band Great Big Sea does a lot of traditional shanty-type music - I really love them. I have also uploaded (some time back) a collection of classic maritime music - some of it may not be to your taste as it really is very, er, traditional, but feel free to download it (anyone on this thread): http://hieroglyfics.net/misc/Classic%20Maritime%20Music.zip

[aletheiafelinea]

You are surely familiar with the Polish sea-shanty band Mordewind?
Yes, I love their "Wielki Szkwał". Heh, it's instrumental one, though...

Thank you very much, traditional or not, everything is interesting. It's good to have something to compare. :)

[isiscolo]

I have both their albums - actually got a Polish friend to buy their second CD for me and ship it to me, since I couldn't get it otherwise. I particularly like their songs which are more shanty-like - Burza, Baltyccy piraci, Do Carlow (which is amazing to me, as it's a translation of an Irish folk song about a historic battle). I actually have both albums uploaded, since it's so hard for people not in Poland to obtain them - I can give you a link if you are interested (please send me a PM).

[aletheiafelinea]

*pricks ears up* I don't know 'Do Carlow', sounds interesting!