Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Original Score)

Ubisoft and Laced Records have crewed up to bring the swashbuckling music of Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag to vinyl.

Edward Kenway’s adventures during the Golden Age of Piracy are splashed across the sleeve, with brand new cover artwork by illustrator and artist Jeff Langevin (jefflangevin.com) and ravishing environment pieces selected from Ubisoft’s archives. 

Composer Brian Tyler is renowned for his blockbuster work across film and video games. Gigues, rough strings, Hollywood percussion, and subtle electronic touches abound throughout the Black Flag score, with Tyler variously pirouetting and strutting through dramatic and action-packed cues — while avoiding piratical clichés.

Joe Henson and Alexis Smith (aka The Flight), plus Christian Henson, contributed tense, lively Caribbean-flavoured tracks for Black Flag’s multiplayer mode. Composer Olivier Deriviere crafted the scintillating soundtrack for the story campaign Freedom Cry in collaboration with Haitian music ensemble La Troupe Makandal.

Perhaps the most indelible musical experience of Black Flag is the inclusion of sea shanties that geed-up players and their crews as they traversed the Caribbean Sea — especially fan-favourite “Leave Her Johnny” and “Randy Dandy Oh”. A huge array of performers leant their vocal talents to the cause, including Sean Dagher, Nils Brown, Michiel Schrey, and many more.

All music has been specially mastered for vinyl by Joe Caithness.

Disc 1 – Brian Tyler original score

Side A

Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Main Theme

Pyrates Beware

On the Horizon

The High Seas

The Fortune of Edward Kenway

In This World or the One Below

Under the Black Flag

Side B

The Ends of the Earth

Stealing a Brig

Fare Thee Well

The Buccaneers

Take What Is Ours!

Lay Aboard Lads

Disc 2

Side A – Brian Tyler original score

I'll Be with You

A Pirate's Life

Men of War

Order of the Assassin

The British Empire

Confrontation

Side B – Brian Tyler original score & The Flight multiplayer music

The Spanish Empire

Ships of Legend

Life at Sea

Saba Island

Tampa Bay

La Havan

Disc 3 – Sea shanties

Side A

Randy Dandy Oh

Maid of Amsterdam

Leave Her Johnny

Whisky Johnny O'

Good Morning Ladies

Fish in the Sea

Dead Horse

Running Down to Cuba

Trooper and the Maid

William Taylor

Patrick Spens

Side B

Fathom the Bowl

Admiral Benbow

All for Me Grog

Buleria

Verdiales

Drunken Sailor

Lowlands Away

Padstow Farewell

Goodbye, Fare-ye-well

Disc 4 – Sea shanties

Side A

Roll, Boys, Roll!

So Early in the Morning

Where Am I to Go, M'Johnnies

Way Me Susianah

Billy Riley

Captain Kidd

The Golden Vanity

Blow Away the Morning Dew

Here's a Health to the Company

Down Among the Dead Men

Over the Hills and Far Away

Side B

Spanish Ladies

Star of the County Down

We Be Three Poor Mariners

Captain Ward

The Nightingale

Maggie Lauder

Fandango 01

Fandango 02

Jaberas

Tiento

Disc 5 – Olivier Deriviere Freedom Cry

Side A

The Root

The Storm

False Paradise

Fight the Tyranny

A Boat to Freedom

Fight the Oppressors

On to Freedom

Side B

Attack at Sea

The Fight for All

United

The Freedom Cry

Marasa

Ogou O