Anthologies   •   Gangs of New York (Soundtrack)

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  • Gangs of New York
    • 2002 - Interscope 06949-3565-2 CD (USA)
  • Track List:
    1. "Brooklyn Heights" 1 (Howard Shore)
    2. Dark Moon, High Tide — Afro Celt Sound System
    3. Gospel Train — Silver Leaf Quartet
    4. The Hands That Built America — U2
    5. Shimmy She Wobble — Othar Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
    6. Breakaway — Sidney Stripling
    7. Signal to Noise — Peter Gabriel
    8. New York Girls — Finbar Furey
    9. The Murderer's Home — Jimpson and Group
    10. Dionysus — Jocelyn Pook
    11. "Brooklyn Heights" 2 (Howard Shore)
    12. Morrison's Jig/Liberty — Mariano De Simone
    13. Durgen Chugaa — Shu-De
    14. Unconstant Lover — Maura O'Connell
    15. Devil's Tapdance — Vittorio Schiboni, Massimo Giuntini, Rodrigo D'Erasmo & Mariano De Simone
    16. Beijing Opera Suite — Da-Can Chen & Anxi Jiang
    17. Paddy's Lamentation — Linda Thompson
    18. "Brooklyn Heights" 3 (Howard Shore)
  • Credits
    • Executive Soundtrack Producer: Martin Scorsese
    • Music Supervisor: Robbie Robertson
    • Soundtrack Album Producer: Hal Willner
    • Executive in Charge of Music for Miramax: Randy Spendlove
    • Business Affairs for Miramax: Alan Duke
    • Music Coordinator: Joe Rangel
    • Soundtrack Album Coordinator: Rachel Levy
    • Album Mastered at Gateway Mastering by Bob Ludwig
    • Package Design: Liam Ward
    • Cover Art Designed by John Walter
    • Interscope Production: Andrew Van Meter
    • Interscope Business Affairs: Darryl Franklin
    • Interscope Marketing Coordinator: Tony Seyler
  • "Brooklyn Heights" 1
    • 1, 2 & 3 — Composed by Howard Shore
    • Produced by Hal Willner
    • Recorded & Mixed by Eric Liljestrand, Tom Lazarus & Geoff Foster
  • Dark Moon, High Tide
    • Performed by Afro Celt Sound System
    • Written by Simon Emmerson, Davy Spillane, Martin Russell
    • From: Volume 1 Sound Magic
    • © 1996 Real World Records Ltd.
  • Gospel Train
    • Performed by The Silver Leaf Quartet
    • Produced & recorded by Alan Lomax
    • © 1997 Rounder Records Corp.
    • Courtesy of the Alan Lomax Archives/Rounder Records
  • The Hands That Built America (Theme From Gangs of New York)
    • Written & performed by U2
    • Featuring Sharon Corr — Violin & Andrea Corr — Tin Whistle
    • Produced by The Edge
    • Engineered & mixed by Carl Glanville
    • Assisted by Chris Heaney
    • String arrangement by The Edge
    • Live strings conducted by Daragh O'Toole
    • Violins: Katie O'Connor & Una O'Kane
    • Viola: Rosie Nic Athlaioch
    • Cello: Emer O'Grady
    • © 2002 Universal International Music BV
  • Shimmy She Wobble
    • Performed by Othar Turner and the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band
    • Written by Othar Turner
  • Breakaway
    • Performed by Sidney Stripling
    • Recorded by John Work
    • © 2001 Rounder Records Corp.
    • Courtesy of The Alan Lomax Archives/Rounder Records
  • Signal To Noise
    • Written & performed by Peter Gabriel
    • © 2002 Geffen Records
  • New York Girls
    • Vocal Performed by Finbar Furey
    • Performed by Piermario De Dominicis (Folk Road), Vincenzo Appolloni, Massimo Greco, Stefano Petra
  • The Murderer's Home
    • Performed by Jimpson & Group
    • Produced & recorded by Alan Lomax
    • © 1997 Rounder Records Corp.
    • Courtesy of The Alan Lomax Archives/Rounder Records
  • Dionysus
    • Written & performed by Jocelyn Pook
    • From: Untold Things
    • © 2001 Real World Records Ltd.
  • "Brooklyn Heighrs" 2
    • Composed by Howard Shore
  • Morrison's Jig & Liberty
    • Performed by Mariano De Simone
  • Durgen Chugaa
    • Performed by Shu-De
    • Traditional, Arranged by Boris Salchak
    • From: Shu-De
    • © 1994 Real World Records Ltd.
  • Unconstant Lover
    • Written & Vocals performed by Maura O'Connell
    • Performed by Vittorio Schiboni, Massimo Giuntini, Rodrigo D'Erasmo & Mariano De Simone
  • Devil's Tapdance
    • Performed by Vittorio Schiboni, Massimo Giuntini, Rodrigo D'Erasmo & Mariano De Simone
  • Beijing Opera Suite
    • Written by Da-Can Chen
    • Produced & arranged by Anxi Jiang
  • Paddy's Lamentation
    • Arranged by Linda Thompson & Teddy Thompson
    • Performed by Linda Thompson
  • "Brooklyn Heights" 3
    • Composed by Howard Shore

The music in "Gangs of New York" combines archive recordings from the record collections of Martin Scorsese and Robbie Robertson, live recordings from the filming, orchestral score, and a few new songs. It's a combination of the various participants musical life's journey in a story which it naturally fits into. When looking at it seperate from the film, it's astounding to see that there are 86 pieces of music in "Gangs of New York" a collection that seems to contain the entire history of music and could in itself be its own anthology. Othar Turner and The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band, The Beijing Opera, Roanan Browne, The Chieftains. The Silver Leaf Quartet, Maura O'Connor, Shu Dee, Hukwe Zaose. Jocelyn Pook, Peter Gabriel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Howard Shore, Davy Spillane, The Sacred Harp Singers, Johnny Kalsi, U2, F.W. Rauch, Sonny Terry, Linda Thompson, Nathan Frazer and Frank Patterson are just some of the artists whose music appears in the film.

In a perfect world you would have all 86 tracks in your hands right now … maybe someday … but in the meantime Robbie Robertson, Martin Scorsese, Howard Shore and myself have bantered back and forth a bit and have come up with this musical journey from "Gangs of New York."

I'll be seeing you …
Hal Willner