Kali Maas

High Barbary

“Up She Rises” expresses the spirit of adventure that a crew must have felt at the start of a new voyage across the world’s oceans sailing on of one of those legendary square rig tall ships of the past 

It is an original I created as the opening song for my Shanty Rock EP, “Kali Maas,” the name of a ship on which my great-great-great-grandfather was captain.


Up She Rises

An old old sea shanty as a rocker for the Kali Maas Shanty Rock EP.

Reuben Ranzo

It's another old sea shanty. Singing in the best - and only - sea shanty choir on the island, has inspired me to combine my blues and rock passion with the music of my seafaring forefathers to make a Shanty Rock EP. This is the fourth release of the Kali Maas EP, the name of a ship on which my great, great, great grandfather was captain.

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The Storm

Here's the 6th song for my Shanty Rock Project "Kali Maas", the name of one of the ships on which my great, great, great grandfather was Captain. 
This one is written by Sir Hugh S. Roberton in the 1930s. The melody was part of an old Gaelic song. The song describes fishermen sailing homeward to the isle of Mingulay where their families wait. Mingulay is the second southernmost island in the Hebrides chain, the Island chain west of Scotland. It was abandoned by its Gaelic-speaking residents in 1912 and has remained uninhabited since.
Special thanks to my friend, teacher and Amrum Shanty Choir director, Rüdiger Sokollek, for playing the Hümmelchen, a type of small German bagpipe.

Ben Dixen

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