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The Wallerman: History, Popularity and different covers and remixes
And I understand that this does not apply to the games, but since Wes and Flynn in his video about Disco Elysium at the end sung the “sticky motive” of the song about which will be discussed in this blog, why not write a blog about this song: D
At the turn of 2020-2021, one musician published in Tiktok video in which he sings a kind of sea chantier. After that, the duets began to appear with him, where people sang him, then played musical instruments. Then a variety of covers and remixes began to appear to this song. Where does this song come from, how it appeared and why it has become popular – all this you find out in this blog.
«Soon May The Wallerman Come» (better known as «Wallerman») – Sea Chanie, the folk song of New Zealand kitobois, written in the second half of the XIX century. New Zealand whales performed this Shanti to raise the morale and cope with hard work.
What is the song about?
The text of the song describes the whaling vessel «The Billy of Tea», which hunted for the whale «40 days, or even more», and at the end of Chansti, the struggle does not end. The team also hopes “Wellerman will arrive soon, bring us sugar, tea and rum”: at that time, workers at these whaling stations (coastal whalers) did not pay salaries, they were paid with clothes, alcohol and tobacco. Wallerman is a veterinet brothers ship, providing provisions by New Zealand whalers since 1833. The line «when work will be completed» refers to removal of subcutaneous fat and cutting meat from whales.
Story
XIX century. – 1966.
It is believed that the song was written in New Zealand in about 1860-1870. It was probably written by Yunga or a coastal whale and, possibly, served as a working song that the whales sang when the whale was killed and cut. Initially, it was assembled around 1966 by a music teacher and the compiler of folk songs from New Zealand Nile Kolkhanu by a certain f. P. Woods, who allegedly had already heard this song.
1967. – 2020.
In 1973 «Soon May The Wellerman Come«Was included in the collection of New Zealand folk songs of Kolkuhan New Zealand Folksongs: Songs of a Young Country.
The song was often performed and remicked, with more than 10 recorded executions from 1967 to 2005. In 1990, Folk-Trio from New England Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trirtette recorded a version on their disk «And so Will We yet«, Produced by Folk-Legacy Records label from the city of Sharon (USA). In 2013 Wellington Sea Shanty Society released a version of the song on its album «Now that’s What I Call Sea Shanties Vol. 1«. The better performance of the song was made by the folk group The Longest Johns from Bristol (England) in their collection of sea songs » Between Wind and Water »Released in 2018
December 27, 2020, the Netan Evans, the Scottish Postman https://vegasmoose.co.uk/ releases in Tiktok Video, where he sings that very Shanti. Dozens of duets with him immediately began to appear, in which people sang along with him, played along with musical instruments and even inserted music. The video itself received a record number of views on the Neutan account – 17.7 million. At the time of writing blog. The musician himself did not expect such a song to acquire such a scale.
January 21, 2021, Nathan Evans produces its full track. On the same day, 220 KID and Billen Ted release remix versions with Tiktok. Both of these songs were in the top charts of several countries.
After that, the Internet began to be replenished with various covers and remixes of the most diverse song genres and performed all of them differently.
Why this song has become so popular?
The Evans version was highly appreciated for the “genuine feeling of stoic patience”, which attracted young people in isolation, which, like the whales of the 19th century, “are stomping in the same way”.
Neutan himself on Newyorktimes said:
Due to the fact that the Evans version appeared on Tiktok, the tendency to sing and show sea Shants, such as «Soon May The Wellerman Come«On social networks, it was called» Shantytok «.
Caves and remixes
For you, I picked up the covers and remixes worthy in my opinion, made after Evans, and put them in chronological order. And also in brief I will tell you about some of them.
January 22 – Cool cover in the style of metal from Littlevmills. He has a lot of similar Cavers for different popular songs, as well as on soundtracks from games.
January 30 – A good collab from Caleb Hyles, Anthony Vincent, Jonathan Young, Pellek and NatewantStobatttle.
January 30 – cover played on the guitar from Gustavo Steiner. On his channel you will find such covers for other popular songs and soundtracks from some games.
February 5 – Niviro remix. For me it is special, t.To. It was this version of Shanti that I heard the first. The performer himself makes quite driving songs.
February 11 – German group Saltatio Mortis, using a bagpipes.
February 19 – Neutan Evans releases a new version with the German group Santiano
March 13 – one of the best Russian caverses (maybe even the best) from Alina Ryzhekhtost, made with the help of living musical instruments. The girl herself makes covers on such tools for different games, films and series.
April 8 – The Longest Jones, which released their version back in 2018, release its official video. And on April 16, they released a community project organized since February 2, in which 6,500 people are singing. Basically, this group performs sea Shantsi.
May 15 – The Trills group with its well -made bitbox. With their bitbox, they also make covers for other popular songs, but mainly through YouTube Shorts and Tiktok.
You can find all these tracks in Spotify, VK, Apple Music and, possibly, other. (I do not use others: D)
The Wallerman Popularized the format of sea Shantie and united the Internet, especially those who were on isolation due to pandemia, although now this song is quietly reducing its turnover.
And also a request to the SG team: please make your full version of Wallerman. You did a great thing in that view: D