Inspired by his involvement in the curse-the-Caribbean movies was actor Johnny Depp (the hired here under the pseudonym Jack Shit also a musician) infect a whole team of friends from film and music scene, and invite you to a sampler with Shanties, pirate songs and ballads sailor to wear together.
The list of musicians reads like a who's-who of the international music scene. Who has heard anything yet: leave surprise! The songs cover everything from thematically, was part of the seafarer (un) romance so do so. From the wistful nostalgia song to boisterous drinking song, the bloodthirsty battle roar to the bitter-ironic work song's for every mood the right song.
The 43 songs come from many different eras and musical correspondingly different. From verrockten shanty until sentimental folk song the music makers have overlooked hardly a spectrum and the musicians also contribute their part to the success of this project in.
The CDs are stuck in a love made digipak and even if the little booklet inside would like to have a little more detail may turn out, so you get but at least some background information about the origin of the shanty and the individual songs. Who wants to know more, then you have willy-nilly commit Stilbruch and rely on modern information sources in the 21st century.
Otherwise: can be easy to take in the past centuries of seafaring and on mental cinema. And who should be then acquired a taste, let me tell you that for the end of February this year a sequel titled Son of Rogue's Gallery is announced.
