Thank you all for your comments and love! Your support means the world to me. I’m currently writing a NEW album based on “Sogno di Volare” and taking my fans on a journey through the creative process. Visit christophertin.com/albums/toshiverthesky.html for more info, and to pick up some leftover rewards from my Kickstarter campaign (including handwritten scores, studio visits to Abbey Road and more). PS: ‘To Shiver the Sky’ set the world record for the highest funded classical music Kickstarter ever!
I have been a huge fan of your work ever since Baba Yetu, but for some reason I only discovered Calling all Dawns yesterday. I can't even track how many times I listened to it since then, amazing work! Really looking forward to To Shiver the Sky! Your work is simply beautiful!
Step 1: Build two broadcast centers. Step 2: Get Great Musician Christopher Tin. Step 3: Make Baba Yetu Step 4: Make Sogno di Volare Step 5: 20000 tourism (10000 each) Step 6: Win
@@theregalproletariat I feel like baba yetu would be science because the official video shows a civilization going from the ancient era, to a science victory
Christopher Tin-Great musician from the information era. Creates the "Baba Yetu" and "Sogno di Volare" great works. Bonuses boosted if the "telecommunications" technology is researched.
Tsiolkovsky is my favorite person. He was more right than anyone. And i keep tripping on how to honor him without spurring a wave of suicide, because a *part* of who he was saw the great beyond as our salvation.
I like that 6 years after the release of this song, Christopher Tin still takes time to read an react to the comments. That's commitment to his audience.
_"For once you have tasted of flight, you shall forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you shall always long to return."_
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. " - Leonardo da Vinci
Honestly? My rig isn't that bad. It was top of the line a few years ago, and the CPU is running on slight overclock. It still takes a few minutes to load (max is five).
Night4fingers Try disable windows defender. My PC is great but I had problem with loading time and crashes. Apparantly WinDef classified some semivital files as virus.
@@lorencproductions This comment made the spiderman pointing at himself meme pop into my head, with both spidermen being Christopher Tin. Baba Yetu guy vs Sogno Di Volare guy.
In case you don't know: The place mentioned in this, Mt. Ceceri, a mountain near Florence in Italy, is the place where Leonardo da Vinci tested his flying machines.
Friends, listen to this: Leonardo was famous for taking notes of everything. He recorded a visit to the hospital and every broken bone and bruise he had suffered, allegedly from falling out of a window. However an English doctor recently reviewed the description and he believes it is not compatible with a vertical fall....but with a fall from an impact with the ground from angle of less that 45 degrees. At that time Leonardo and his assistant were testing his glider. Guess where? On Monte Ceceri. Nothing will ever convince me otherwise: Leonardo must have tried himself, and he DID FLY. That is how he knew. That is why he wrote these words.
Well actually it wasn't Leonardo, but his assistant, Tomasso Masini who bruised himself testing Leonardo's flying device. In his Codex on the Flight of Birds, Leonardo mentions that Tomasso piloted the device, took off from Monte Ceceri, glided on a distance of 1.000 metres, fell and broke a leg and severeal ribs. He survived and managed to recover in just a few months.
“From the first stirrings of life beneath water, to the great beasts of the Stone Age, to man taking his first upright steps, you have come far. Now begins your greatest quest. From this early cradle of civilization, on towards the stars…”
"Your people look up to you, Emperor Pedro II, to lead Brazil onto the world stage. Use your reputation as a patron of artists, scientists and engineers to draw the greatest minds to our fertile home. For it is in the lush rainforests, teeming with life, that your people thrive. Watch them in the Carnival as they dance the samba in celebration of your great feats, Pedro the Magnanimous."
"And so it is upon your broad shoulders, Theodore Roosevelt, to charge forth and lead your people on their great adventure. Use your military might to give the peoples of your homeland the square deal they so desperately deserve. Surely you will raise America into the limelight and attract visitors from across the oceans just to see your lands. Bully for you, Mr. President."
“Heroic Fredrick, king of the Germans, your task is to forge the independent states that surround you into an empire. You are blessed to be a great military leader - use those skills to bring these cities under your sway so they may develop into commercial and industrial powerhouses. Surely then the bards will sing of the mighty Fredrick with the red beard, the great Holy Roman Emperor.”
Much rests upon your shoulders, King Gilgamesh. Your own people, and many people of the world, look to you as leader. But you are more than a mere man, and the weight of the world will never cause you to waver.
"Wise Jayavarman, seventh to hold the name, the Khmer admire your dedication to their well-being. Your command of the land's fresh waters lets you feed your hungry people, just as it brings you ever closer to Heaven. Go forth, divine architect! Build an empire that approaches perfection-and may your enemies find their end beneath your mighty war elephants."
For one, as popular as Tin is, I don't think he is as venerated as Beethoven or Berlioz (yet). Secondly, it would be improper as Tin was hired to compose music for this game. People will wonder if being featured as a "Great Musician" was a little bonus he got in addition to his fee.
It's literally INSANE how great this piece of music is. It made me sit in Civ6's main menu for 30 minutes before I even hit the "options" button. Great work mr. Tin!
Speaking as an airline pilot, this piece encapsulates perfectly how I feel every time I push the throttle forward, the engines surge and suddenly I'm airborne.
I'm just sitting here wondering what these first pioneers of flying would think if they could wittnes the present. 1903 the Wrigth brothers built the first propelled aircraft. In 2017 an average of 11.000.000 people per day have been flying. These song put this feeling into sound.
I don't care what type of music you like. Country, rap, techno, etc. You cannot deny that this is one of the most majestic and overwhelmingly epic pieces of music ever written.
It's just something different entirely. It's not (usually) something you play in your everyday life and just continue. You can't help feeling something, and stop for a moment, if it's only for a moment. You use this to get into another state of mind. Reinvigorate is the word that comes to mind. That doesn't only count for it, there are a number of tracks that are like this. I also had a time when I thought: That's the greatest ever. Now I know, there are a number of tracks that trigger this motion in my heart. But that's only more treasure to the world. For music, there are different styles for different purposes, different moments, different goals. Those people who have realized this, have figured out a true wealth for their life.
You might think I'm crazy and it's not worth your time but look up how to train your dragon specifically the part "test flight" it's more cinematic because it's crafted around what's going on but watch till the end please you won't b sorry
Congrats from Italy, Tuscany. This song is amazing. It is an hymn and a tribute to the spirit of humanism and of the reinassance which like a spark was turned on in Italy, in its cities like Firenze, Venezia, Roma in 1400', and then quickly spread like a majestic wind throughout Europe. If there was a petition to make this the anthem of humanity at the UN i would totally sign it.
"Man will be lifted by his own creation." Some really powerfull words and really telling of humanity and the technological progress we have made thus far and which we will continue to make as we will spread across the stars.
Listening to this song while looking at the first images taken by the James Webb telescope is an experience in and of itself. Despite our failures, it's amazing to see how far humanity has come.
I've seen people on this and Baba Yetu debating which one would be a better fit for a planetary anthem, and... Well, whichever one you prefer, I think we can all agree that Christopher Tin should be the one to compose such an anthem.
Baba Yetu can be the Earth anthem. This one seems more fit for the ones looking towards to stars and daring to cross the void between them. An organization settling e.g. the Moon, Mars or Alpha Centauri should have it as its anthem.
Baba Yetu's lyrics are a Christian prayer translated into Swahili and Christianity is the cancer of Mankind. So many human lives taken for no other reason than disobedience to a fantasy, so much scientific progress delayed in favour of worshipping ignorance. Baba Yetu, as beautiful as it is, shoudn't deserve to be even considered to represent all humans.
@@punkrockeris666 >blaming the faith itself and not the many zealots who've practiced it Cool. Not like many significant scientific discoveries and great deeds were made by Christians as well...
There are many things in this opus looking like baba yetu : for exemple, 2:18 is the same "U FAL ME WAKO" theme in Bb minor (instead of C# minor in baba yetu)
Jacob Wheeler All rise toward mesopotamia for the National anthem of the republic of earth mesopotamia because it's where the first civilization is from.
One of my favourite things about this video (aside from the excellent music) is that Christopher Tin still reads all the comments left by fans! Thank you for composing such a great song!
games like the civ series are very popular among non gamers regardless, there are probably many a old grouchy retired history teachers building pyramids in the jungles of russia
I GOT MY PILOT'S LICENSE! This song helped me achieve my dream of becoming a pilot. My first Solo flight taking off pushing the throttle forward as the song Crescendos is pure gloria! Thank you for this amazing song.
Congrats mate! I have my license too and I think of my first solo flight in 2015 when the song plays. I know how amazing the feeling is😁 Well done mate👍🏻
bro when I was hour building to my commercial license I would listen to music like this and go run rural canyons for fun. Based zulu 3s. Got it out of my system, fly airliners now lol
@@christophertin "War" victory, not over other men, but victory over barbarism, fear, and greed. The concepts that have held humanity back for thousands of years and led to so much despair, anguish and suffering. Perhaps, alternately, a 'culture' victory, but more how cultures never 'win' long term, but are all interwoven to make us what we are today. We still have concepts from the former founding 'civilizations' (real world) Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Indian, Chinese, etc. that guide how we interconnect and interact with our friends, families, neighbors, other citizens of our countries, and other nations around the world.
@@hakuso.3 I've honestly found myself wanting to play Civ 6 more and more over 5 the more I get into it. I feel like a tool for paying full price for Gathering Storm but it actually does add a lot of replayability
Before listening to this masterpiece, I had never thought about how much of a great achievement flying was for humanity. "Man will be lifted by his own creation" part gives me goosebumps even after listening to it for over 30 times!
Not only that, but how fast it changed our world, and how fast our technology advanced. It took us 66 years to go from the first powered flight in 1903 to landing on the moon in 1969. That’s insane!
Che poi da italiano io stesso, non avevo capito che la canzone fosse cantata in italiano finché non ho letto il testo del video... As italian myself, I didn't know this song was in italian until I read the lyrics...
This is no exaggeration: When I first started the game, and went through the settings, I found myself lingering just to hear this outstanding track. It SOUNDS like Civilization, whatever that means.
The song itself is an epic. Encompassing the beauty of the series as a whole, from the sprawling seas of time and the ever-approaching future era of glorious peace or patriotic war. The human nature to discover, research, crawl, move, and become better from our trials. Idk. Christopher Tin just REALLY knows what he's doing
I bought this game on Steam and started playing it yesterday. I instantly liked this theme, and once I understood that it was sung in my language, I loved it even more. Love from Italy 💚🤍❤
Hi Christopher. I am now 32 years old and I have played MANY videogames throughout my life. The most important thing to me in a game has always been the music, a game can rise or fall with good or bad music. I thought I'd already heard all of the greatest videogame soundtracks that exist, but today I bought CIV 6 and my jaw dropped to the floor. I don't even want to start an actual match, I just wanna stay in the main menu and listen to this glorious piece of music. Not just one of the most beautiful videogame soundtracks ever, but possibly one of the most epic compositions I've ever listened to, period! Cheers from Germany, you've created something of immortal value.
I have to agree with. 34 yrs old myself and it doesn't get much better than this. Having said that, Civ games always have good music. Baba Yetu from Civ IV is just as good I think.
PLEASE play Horizon Zero Dawn! The music creates this unmatched atmospheric aesthetic and the story is superb. The best single player RPG I have ever played in my life.
If I ever hear anyone saying they don't like modern classical music, I simply play this. It's a tragedy that modern classical is overlooked by many, because to my mind, if Christopher Tin had written choral music of this standard several hundred years ago, he'd be held in the same esteem as household names like Brahms (my personal favourite) and Beethoven. That's not an exaggeration, this is a truly magnificent piece of music from an amazing composer; I fear that it's only a level of snobbery within some musical circles that keeps modern composers from getting the wider recognition they absolutely deserve.
I always found it so wild and moving that Da Vinci wrote a song about humanity achieving flight after he and the other greatest minds of the time couldn't achieve it. Something about the spirit needed to dream that big despite it seeming completely impossible for even the foremost science of the day is really inspiring.
The most beautiful thing is that it is due to dreamers like da Vinci having the dream in the first place and writing about it, designing it, even if he was so far from the mark, that people like the Wright brothers were able to realize the concept in reality. A dream sets a plan in motion, maybe it won't become real in your lifetime, but someday someone will share your passion and make it so. That's what I believe.
Leonardo da Vinci never wrote a song about achieving flight. If you are referring to "And once you have tasted flight..." that was a voice over by Fredric March and written by John H. Secondari. If you are referring to something else, I would be interested in knowing what "song" he wrote about flight
"For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return" Civilization 4
The quotes were alays epic in the Civ games, even if sometimes not really original (I mean, the good old "I have become death, the destructor of worlds" for nuclear weapons, c'mon...)
“For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will long to return.” - Leonardo di Vinci, Flight Tech Quote, Civilization IV (R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy)
I had my first flight last year I believe and no matter how limited the view were it felt fucking amazing. Seeing the clouds as the plane soar, feeling the gravity of Mother Earth pushing down, alongside with the beautiful sea it feels amazing. I would love to experience it, I was pretty much awake half the time the flight just staring out of the window.
La bellezza di testo che ha fatto da Vinci è una meraviglia già conosciuta. Ma, anche la melodia che tu hai fatto è il grandissimo capolavoro. È l'inno di tutta la umanità. Grazie, Christopher.
@laflugantabastardo Man, I hate fake quotes. There's another one misattributed to Voltaire "to know who rules over you, you must find out who you are not allowed to criticise". It's not from Voltaire. Someone misattributed it and went viral. The real quote is from Kevin Strom. Thanks for the info.
It's been 6 years now... And I still get goosebumps every time I download the game again to play with my friends and I hear this masterpiece playing in the main menu.
Such a beautiful piece. Tin is truly a master composer. Not only does this sound incredible, for me (at least) I think it displays a nice contrast of his last piece, Baba Yetu. Baba Yetu almost sounds reflective in it’s presentation, like it’s saying “Look what we’ve accomplished, look at how far we’ve come.” Volare, on the other hand, sounds triumphant and powerful. Like it’s looking towards the sky. Like it’s saying “Look how far we can go.”
I like this comparison! I love both very much, but for me, there’s something about Baba Yetu that’s feels “large scale”, like there’s something bigger than the song itself. Sogno is epic and grand but Baba Yeti moves me to f-in tears.every.dang.time 😭
Few hours ago my first boy was born. I left mother and baby in hospital, I went home. Here I am crying like a little baby, and tears of pure joy with these masterpiece as background. Don't know which one gives me more gloria
Humans: (builds a plane that can glide a few feet off the ground) Humans: It's not enough. We can make it go higher. Humans: (builds a plane that can break the sound barrier) Humans: It's not enough. We can make it go faster. Humans: (builds jumbo jets that can transport hundreds across the ocean) Humans: It's not enough. We can make it bigger. Humans: (reaches outer space and plants a flag on the goddamn moon) Humans: Well, it's a start, I guess.
Manoj Kumar humans: realize that we aren’t in a simulation Humans: build a whole new universe that we don’t know what is in it just to explore it Humans: watches the species of the new Universe unite and kill every last human and blow up Earth
Hello Mr. Cristopher! I am 13 years old and I love this music. You did an amazing job with it! I can't stop listening to it as well as my friends. sometimes I play civilization just for this piece of art. fantastic! Greetings from Poland. By the way I'm still learning English so sorry for my mistakes
Your English is good! A bit of constructive criticism: it should be Mr. Tin, not Mr. Christopher. And "as well as my friends should be "and my friends can't either". No mistakes I can see other than that and a few missed capitalizations.
Fuck that, they should be Great People in the base game. I don't care how self-aggrandizing it is. Although if we're adding modern composers, John Williams is a must-include as well.
Sid gave his name for the ultimate difficulty in Civ3, and oneof the most powerful corporations in Civ4, and it's his name on the thing always. Maybe he felt that was enough for now.
This song was recommended to me randomly in a streaming service. And it struck me like a lightning. Now when i found it with lyrics it actually makes me tear up. Such a majestic hymn to the humankind's aspiration and triumph! It makes me wish to be hopeful and strong again. Maybe i will, one day. Thank you for this beautiful piece!
As an Italian, Thank you Christopher. What you have created is beautiful: an hymn to humanity's accomplishments and ongoing thirst for knowledge, progress and discovery, with a stunning poetry-like sentence structure ('Lì a casa il cuore sentirai'). This is why everyone calls you a Great musician.
I know this was uploaded 6 years ago, but my husband just started playing this game on the Switch. I myself have not played a single minute of this game, but immediately had to look up this song when it came on. I'm now listening to the entire Civ 6 soundtrack, nothing beats this triumphant-sounding piece. Well done, Christopher Tin. I think you've single-handedly inspired a generation of people.
Well to be fair. The last 2000 years or so, all major discoveries has been done by europeans (including people of european descent) and Asians (mostly east asians).
Lol Africans enslaved themselves and sold their brothers to Jewish traders who took them to America. Don't put that on me, all my ancestors did was buy them.
@@Mickeymoon-j2x OK ma esprimerlo bestemmiando non mi sembra molto corretto... Ma vabbè ormai le bestemmie in Italia sono uno schifo di abitudine quindi la smetto qui
A lot modern music doesn't seem to do it for me, and I constantly find myself looking backwards to some of my favorite composers. This includes not only the Mozarts or Beethovens or Holst, but the great movie composers like John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone and Alan Silvestri. It amazes me now that some of the best music I find is being introduced to me through video games, and artists like Nobuo Uematsu, Geoff Knorr, Michael Curran and of course Christopher Tin are creating our new classics. Bravo gentlemen!
civ always gives you a way to realize how far huminaty has come and you just can't have any other feeling than beeing proud. This Theme perfectly portrayes this feeling.
The NASA rover Perseverance will be landing on Mars in two days (February 18, 2021). During the livstream, I'll play this song in the final 4 minutes leading to touchdown, because it's such a fitting piece for such a historic point in time. Thank you for this, sir! Truly.
Send us plagues and wars, and we will not only survive but come out stronger, better, more determined to push the boundaries possible. because we don't know when to give up. That is the real superpower of humanity, no matter WHAT, we keep marching on to greatness.
As cheesy as it may sound but if we ever *have* an anthem for humanity, this would be a solid contender in my eyes. It's about human ingenuity and what we can achieve together. We literally made tons of metal fly. We put people on top of a stack of explosives and sent them off careening into the sky ... and we brought them back in one piece. Well most of them... but those that didn't come back will not be forgotten either.
I guess this song could really fit, because it doesnt talk about the dark past of humanity or the odds faced because of religion and culture, rather it talks about the future and the great feats we can achieve together, when the plane was invented it was not made for a nation, rather to humanity itself
Also, it's about Leonardo da Vinci, who is pretty much the quintessential human because he was an artist, a scientist, and, most importantly, an engineer.
@@presidentbanana4536 Leonardo da Vinci, achieving all types of victories since 1452. (except world domination of course, but yknow...) One of the most OP humans to ever live, if not the most OP human in history.
I cry when I hear this. Bravo!!! Great person was born, great work created! Thank you so much, dear Christopher! God save Christopher! Long live Christopher!
Whenever I hear this song my mind IMMEDIATELY goes to "From the first stirrings of life beneath water... to the great beasts of the Stone Age... to man taking his first upright steps, you have come far. Now begins your greatest quest: from this early cradle of civilization on towards the stars."
Heroic Frederick...king of the Germans, your task is to forge the independent states that surround you into an empire. You are blessed to be a great military leader. Use those skills to bring those cities under your sway, so that they may develop into military and industrial powerhouses. Surely then the bards will sing of Frederick with the red beard, the great Holy Roman Emperor.
Cast your net wide, oh Trajan, emperor of mighty Rome. Your legions stand at the ready to march out and establish the largest empire the world has ever seen. If you can truly get all roads to lead to Rome, yours will be an empire of great riches and luxuries. Surely then our citizens will proclaim you as their best ruler, the Optimus Princeps.
Holy shit I did not expect the composer himself to notice and approve of this. I am glad you agree, Christopher. You make great music and I look forward to all future music you will make, wherever you are hired.
Civ V Brave New World: Baba Yetu may be iconic and pretty good, but overrated. Let's make something beautiful instead of celebratory. Civ VI: sorry BNW AND IV, i can do both at the same time, and better to boot! ???: Amateurs... IV and BNW: what was that, PUNK!? HOI4: I said, AMATEURS!
Can you imagine this playing in a compilation stretching from Leonardo's flying machines, to the Wright Brothers, Chuck Yeagar, Yuri Gagarin, and finally to Apollo 11?
(To both you and @Autistic Foamer, I guess) I was actually thinking of using this (properly licensed, of course) in a compilation about progress in my fictional universe and corresponding alternate history, with most of the video clips made in an extremely heavily modified version of Kerbal Space Program. Specifically, it would be used when an alien people first attain flight on the back of a semi-domestic creature during what is their Late Paleolithic and our Early Paleolithic (the very first event) and when they finally achieve contact with humans after the Pegasus 2 mission in either the 2080s or 2140s, depending on the alternate history scenario I select (the very last event). Other *lesser* songs would be used for intermediate events like the first alien landing and returning from their habitable moon, the first human flight, the first non-stop aerial circumnavigation of Earth, the first Mars landing, etc. ;)
+ Christopher Tin I eagerly await your album, but until it comes out, a university aviation program created this phenomenal animation in the style of the Civilization games, set to your sublime "Dream of Flight". th-cam.com/video/6yNBDCOGTpg/w-d-xo.html
I think it runs deeper than that - I interpret it not as simply about "flight" in the literal sense, but as the flight of the human mind. I work in video and I'm thinking of making a videoclip encompassing the whole human evolution and achievement - science, art, the good and the bad, the fact that we are here and we demand to be heard by the universe. To believe that something must persist, that the path must be worth it, that we are valuable because we are human. This is an incredible piece, an amazing statement on human desire, the essence of humanity. To quote a great poet, when faced with the unacceptable, with the inherent imperfection of life, "there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet though of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no."
If you own a piece of land(or a house at least), you can start your own micro-nation. One of the best examples of a micro-nation is the Principality of Sealand.
Specifically, the man achieved putting soul into the music. It's one thing to hear some wardrums or horse charge or trumpet symphony, but you and I both know Baba Yetu seared itself into our heads the very first time we heard it. Mr. Tin's accomplishment is rooted in that he made his music *distinctive*.
This song outright makes me cry. I'm almost certainly convinced I'm sociopathic in my degree of apathy for the world and yet I hear this and I stop thinking about the game, about how music is 'just' music, and I feel that ache in my heart. Mediocre art is almost 90%, maybe even 99% of what we consume. But what we really live for, is this. This one percent that manages to resonate deep within. Thank you, for writing this. You've made the world a slightly better place to live in.
This is not only a masterpiece of song. This is a national anthem that literally any nation would approve. The struggles we had during our history, past present and future. This is the song that resembles how mankind has advanced and even surpassed nature. How we can even go further. This will Always be THE song of The humankind history.good job
I love the nuance in the title: "Sogno di volare" means both "The dream of flight" and "I dream of flying". I think it incapsulates both the individual and shared components of human progress
It's not the UN, but this was my personal theme for the Distant Worlds 2 expedition in Elite Dangerous. 3 years to the day after 1100 players set out for an epic 70,000 lightyear journey across a 1:1 scale Milky Way, 12,000 players started that journey all over again. That burning desire to reach for the sky and the stars beyond is what drove us. Those who sought the path of "Explorer" would rarely stay in inhabited space for long before heading out again. Of those 12,000, less than 1/3 of them completed the expedition. But it was never about the destination, but rather the journey. The friends we made at the waypoints, the shenanigans we got up to whenever we had the chance, and just having a blast across 5 months. Video is not mine, but sums up the trip quite nicely. th-cam.com/video/awdsTmCQrOA/w-d-xo.html
Fox D As much as I would agree that Baba Yetu would make a good anthem of humanity, I doubt the religions that aren’t Christian would like it very much. This song is much more unifying. I do like this song much better, as a student pilot it speaks to me.
Imagine all of the people of the planet singing, dancing with this playing. Humanity coul really be proud ! We are not the same by face or culture, but we should never forget the fact we're all the same specie, a specie destined to do great things! Cheers and respect to all who read.
Agent.O Indeed! we need to look at the positive sides off humanty more. Watching the syrian civil war and Islamic state massacring a great number of people makes you question humans as a whole, but as you said one day humanety will realise what our main purpose is :D
IDarkNight Well, more and more people realise there is no god (at least cant be proven) among us. Give humanity some time and religion will only be part of humanity's long history :)
This song revels in the glory of all of humanity, and extols our collective accomplishments to the greatest heights. It is what music should be, what it could be. Every chord, every note, every harmony a love letter to the greatest species to have ever existed, in all that it represents. Simultaneously chaotic and orderly, ugly and beautiful, majestic, and yet, despite coming close to the divine, we remain human.
Thank you all for your comments and love! Your support means the world to me. I’m currently writing a NEW album based on “Sogno di Volare” and taking my fans on a journey through the creative process. Visit christophertin.com/albums/toshiverthesky.html for more info, and to pick up some leftover rewards from my Kickstarter campaign (including handwritten scores, studio visits to Abbey Road and more).
PS: ‘To Shiver the Sky’ set the world record for the highest funded classical music Kickstarter ever!
Our humanity at it's most aspirational, wondrous and beautiful. The world needs more of this, especially now I think. Thank you!
You are amazing please never stop
This is so good. I'm glad you are working on more!
I have been a huge fan of your work ever since Baba Yetu, but for some reason I only discovered Calling all Dawns yesterday. I can't even track how many times I listened to it since then, amazing work! Really looking forward to To Shiver the Sky! Your work is simply beautiful!
I love it. Please also have more concerts! At least one in Europe this or next year! Please!
This song alone is enough to win a cultural victory, I swear
you are wrong! This song is culture itself. hahaha
Step 1: Build two broadcast centers.
Step 2: Get Great Musician Christopher Tin.
Step 3: Make Baba Yetu
Step 4: Make Sogno di Volare
Step 5: 20000 tourism (10000 each)
Step 6: Win
Sogno di Volare - Science Victory
Mado Kara Mieru - Culture Victory
Baba Yetu - Religious Victory
@@theregalproletariat I feel like baba yetu would be science because the official video shows a civilization going from the ancient era, to a science victory
@@a.s.l711 Christopher Tin for Great Musician with Baba Yetu and Sogno di Volare?
Petition for Christopher Tin to be a Great Musician in Civ 7.
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I mean that would actually make a good easter egg
sign me
given Baba Yetu won the man a Grammy, and became the first song from a game to not only be nominated for one, but win one, it'd be fitting
Should we use him to start a Golden Age, or save for an Opera House?
My life is richer for this piece of music, gets better every single time I hear it.
Oh my god Dan, you actually like this kind of music? :O
BTW you're doing a great job with the raps, hope you do one for Civ VI :D
Firaxis need to make Dan a Civ leader in a DLC.
It's made by leonardo da vinci
I hope you would make a civilization 6 rap :D
Andrei Skobtsov the song is made by Christoffer Tin. The lyrics were originally written by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Just here to vote in Christopher Tin as a Great musician in Civ 7!
They need to given how many scores he's done for the franchise!
Auch 2024 verteilt er noch Herzen! 🥺
He is back for civ vii
@@qutuz1170 Awesome! Thank you for commenting :D
Christopher Tin-Great musician from the information era. Creates the "Baba Yetu" and "Sogno di Volare" great works. Bonuses boosted if the "telecommunications" technology is researched.
A Great Musician has been born in your civilization!
yeah, they should add chris as a great person in civ
The question is whether his great work would be Baba Yetu or this song.
It may be both, like in Civ VI :3
+elderscrolls2112
In Civ VI it can be both
Just as long as we get John Williams in there too.
I can’t believe they give a free game when you buy this song
Bloody expensive song, game or not
Worth it
Crazy, isn’t it?
@@andrewmurray409 still the best 60 bucks I ever spent for a song.
@@Justagamerhere1 Ahem *pity about the new graphics style* ahem
_"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever."_
Ah Tsiolkovski
This is absolutely perfect for what humans are wanting to do now.
Tsiolkovsky is my favorite person. He was more right than anyone. And i keep tripping on how to honor him without spurring a wave of suicide, because a *part* of who he was saw the great beyond as our salvation.
@@kyleshubert2863 You think we'd finally get our shit figured out and unite as a species. Or screw that, as Earth.
together me must rise from our infancy and show the universe what how much more humanity can do!
I like that 6 years after the release of this song, Christopher Tin still takes time to read an react to the comments. That's commitment to his audience.
Best. Game music. Ever.
Hats off to you Mr. Tin, you deserve a freaking Grammy.
another one*
A third one !
it makes me crying, so beautifull!
He deserves to be a Great Musician
He needs an award now, i get so pumped setting up games to this music i bounce in my chair LOL
_"For once you have tasted of flight, you shall forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you shall always long to return."_
"Although I may not look like it, I come from the sky, just like you."
to seek flight, that is humanity's greatest desire in this world.
.
This civ 4 quote hits hard my man
Who is the author of this quote? like it!
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
" - Leonardo da Vinci
Woo jet fighters and helicopters!
The research of flight has been completed.
@@Cecilia-ky3uw but it's something for some people. People who barely afford commercial flights. It was like a dream for them.
...Omg, the song is his phrase but reworded...! I have tears in my eyes, this is so wonderful!
@@IMayOrMayHaveNot Yes it is wonderful!!
Guess what? On May 16, 2024, our wind ensemble is playing this in concert. I am SO excited as the conductor.
We just played it with our fanfare band!
Ey congratulations! Best of luck to you guys! :)
I just played it today in a band, I had never heard the song and we really didn't do it justice now that I know how it goes ☠☠
Where do I get tickets?
I hope you're able to record it for us!
That feeling when you have trouble passing the menu screen because the music is so damn good :/
exactly that
Well, you're in luck! The loading times are long, so you can enjoy it two or three times while it loads ;)
Night4fingers One thing that cut loading time for me was deactivating Windows defender
Honestly? My rig isn't that bad. It was top of the line a few years ago, and the CPU is running on slight overclock. It still takes a few minutes to load (max is five).
Night4fingers Try disable windows defender. My PC is great but I had problem with loading time and crashes. Apparantly WinDef classified some semivital files as virus.
It's hard to get more badass than "Lyrics by Leonardo da Vinci"
Holy fuck
For real
you know you're cool when Da Vinci is your lyricist
Then again, the lyrics - or even the quote it is based on - never were by Leonardo Da Vinci.
It could be Composed by Christopher tin... oh wait!
God I love this song
:D
I'm an italian player and i've never recognized that this song is in fact sung in italian. Operatic choirs can really throw you off
It truly is worthy of all praise it gets. :)
Me to
I totally did not expect to find you here
I hope Civ 7 theme will be just a glorious. The sense of wonder and adventure is overwhelming in this song.
Wow it's been almost 5 years and this man is still giving hearts to people, what a nice lad .
The Baba Yetu guy is the same way! Lol
@@lorencproductions well it does happen to be the same person
@@lorencproductions This comment made the spiderman pointing at himself meme pop into my head, with both spidermen being Christopher Tin. Baba Yetu guy vs Sogno Di Volare guy.
@@lorencproductions lol
In case you don't know: The place mentioned in this, Mt. Ceceri, a mountain near Florence in Italy, is the place where Leonardo da Vinci tested his flying machines.
Dostwyn
thanks mate! very informative!
flying machines? what kind of flying machines?
You know, the ancestors of planes and such...
You should go and investigate why is named Ceceri ;)
E io che pensavo fosse il Monte Ceneri... :-)
Friends, listen to this:
Leonardo was famous for taking notes of everything.
He recorded a visit to the hospital and every broken bone and bruise he had suffered, allegedly from falling out of a window.
However an English doctor recently reviewed the description and he believes it is not compatible with a vertical fall....but with a fall from an impact with the ground from angle of less that 45 degrees.
At that time Leonardo and his assistant were testing his glider. Guess where? On Monte Ceceri.
Nothing will ever convince me otherwise:
Leonardo must have tried himself, and he DID FLY.
That is how he knew. That is why he wrote these words.
First human to fly! He got a piece of Eden.
I would also be interested to read more about that
@Kawa TH-cam bill gates have them
@laflugantabastardo uh
Well actually it wasn't Leonardo, but his assistant, Tomasso Masini who bruised himself testing Leonardo's flying device. In his Codex on the Flight of Birds, Leonardo mentions that Tomasso piloted the device, took off from Monte Ceceri, glided on a distance of 1.000 metres, fell and broke a leg and severeal ribs. He survived and managed to recover in just a few months.
“From the first stirrings of life beneath water, to the great beasts of the Stone Age, to man taking his first upright steps, you have come far. Now begins your greatest quest. From this early cradle of civilization, on towards the stars…”
"Your people look up to you, Emperor Pedro II, to lead Brazil onto the world stage. Use your reputation as a patron of artists, scientists and engineers to draw the greatest minds to our fertile home. For it is in the lush rainforests, teeming with life, that your people thrive. Watch them in the Carnival as they dance the samba in celebration of your great feats, Pedro the Magnanimous."
"And so it is upon your broad shoulders, Theodore Roosevelt, to charge forth and lead your people on their great adventure. Use your military might to give the peoples of your homeland the square deal they so desperately deserve. Surely you will raise America into the limelight and attract visitors from across the oceans just to see your lands.
Bully for you, Mr. President."
“Heroic Fredrick, king of the Germans, your task is to forge the independent states that surround you into an empire. You are blessed to be a great military leader - use those skills to bring these cities under your sway so they may develop into commercial and industrial powerhouses. Surely then the bards will sing of the mighty Fredrick with the red beard, the great Holy Roman Emperor.”
Much rests upon your shoulders, King Gilgamesh. Your own people, and many people of the world, look to you as leader. But you are more than a mere man, and the weight of the world will never cause you to waver.
"Wise Jayavarman, seventh to hold the name, the Khmer admire your dedication to their well-being. Your command of the land's fresh waters lets you feed your hungry people, just as it brings you ever closer to Heaven. Go forth, divine architect! Build an empire that approaches perfection-and may your enemies find their end beneath your mighty war elephants."
Christopher Tin
should be an great artist in Civlization VII.
lol that would be so funny actually, good idea
*musician
And should unlock the whole soundtrack during the game XD
@Granddad Fleenstone Great Musician.
@Granddad Fleenstone Why?
This song makes me feel some actual hope and pride for humanity... weird...
hope is all we got
The humankind should be unite.
Yeah I get that same feeling. It’s only multiplied when looking at a hill in the distance while driving and looking at the landscape lol
Huge sci-fi nerd here; if Sci-fi was a county or a religion, this song would be our anthem, IMO
Olof Sandberg *Y E S*
Christopher Tin as Great Musician in DLC please?
Aiden Pearce yeah
I hope it wil be a DLC. If it's going to be a DLC I know I'm going to buy it
I think Mr Tin would be rather embarrassed if that happened while he was still alive.
indeed to call oneself a great person is kinda too much, they dont have to be dead but still...
For one, as popular as Tin is, I don't think he is as venerated as Beethoven or Berlioz (yet). Secondly, it would be improper as Tin was hired to compose music for this game. People will wonder if being featured as a "Great Musician" was a little bonus he got in addition to his fee.
Congratulations from an italian.
This piece might be the best italian song made by a non-italian.
Thank you
Davvero meravigliosa
@@Quetzal83 👌
It's literally INSANE how great this piece of music is. It made me sit in Civ6's main menu for 30 minutes before I even hit the "options" button. Great work mr. Tin!
Ahah you are not the only one doing that lol
Same
Its great music for when i wait 15 minutes for a game to start ngl. If this music didnt exist id probably not enjoy the game as much
Jakub Wawrzynowicz what was the configuration of your computer at that time?
Same.
Speaking as an airline pilot, this piece encapsulates perfectly how I feel every time I push the throttle forward, the engines surge and suddenly I'm airborne.
I'm just sitting here wondering what these first pioneers of flying would think if they could wittnes the present. 1903 the Wrigth brothers built the first propelled aircraft. In 2017 an average of 11.000.000 people per day have been flying. These song put this feeling into sound.
You and me both mate :)
You're clear for take-off :)
Living my dream! Safe travels.
Thank you for this comment o7
I don't care what type of music you like. Country, rap, techno, etc. You cannot deny that this is one of the most majestic and overwhelmingly epic pieces of music ever written.
Im a Drum n Bass raver, and yet I find myself here.... interesting 🤔
It's just something different entirely. It's not (usually) something you play in your everyday life and just continue. You can't help feeling something, and stop for a moment, if it's only for a moment.
You use this to get into another state of mind. Reinvigorate is the word that comes to mind.
That doesn't only count for it, there are a number of tracks that are like this. I also had a time when I thought: That's the greatest ever. Now I know, there are a number of tracks that trigger this motion in my heart. But that's only more treasure to the world.
For music, there are different styles for different purposes, different moments, different goals. Those people who have realized this, have figured out a true wealth for their life.
You might think I'm crazy and it's not worth your time but look up how to train your dragon specifically the part "test flight" it's more cinematic because it's crafted around what's going on but watch till the end please you won't b sorry
like baiting npc comment
It sounds like a religious hymn. Speaks to the soul
This song is iconic. Unmistakable and unique. Civ fans and strategy game players are definitely gonna remember this for a long time.
Congrats from Italy, Tuscany. This song is amazing. It is an hymn and a tribute to the spirit of humanism and of the reinassance which like a spark was turned on in Italy, in its cities like Firenze, Venezia, Roma in 1400', and then quickly spread like a majestic wind throughout Europe. If there was a petition to make this the anthem of humanity at the UN i would totally sign it.
There is no humanism wothout God
You'll be not alone.
@@reidparker1848 god is dead. We don’t need him to be humans.
@@Stalysfa
No one ever said you weren't human, to deny God. It's really our natural, sinful condition.
This also is hymn to the power of ancient Roman Empire. Idk just I feeling I got.. (😂😂 )
"Man will be lifted by his own creation."
Some really powerfull words and really telling of humanity and the technological progress we have made thus far and which we will continue to make as we will spread across the stars.
At some point the game will be forgotten, but this music will live forever.
It's 2019 and neither Civilization IV and Baba Yetu are forgotten
Michael Helin lol
@@Mickelraven We're talking about centuries here, my friend
@@Mickelraven I'm playing it right now, while watching all of Tin's videos. Bloody hell it is a good game.
@@redaefast I love Civ IV too :)
Listening to this song while looking at the first images taken by the James Webb telescope is an experience in and of itself. Despite our failures, it's amazing to see how far humanity has come.
That, and the first aircraft to take flight on another planet.
Without failure, there would never be progress. 👍🙂
I've seen people on this and Baba Yetu debating which one would be a better fit for a planetary anthem, and... Well, whichever one you prefer, I think we can all agree that Christopher Tin should be the one to compose such an anthem.
Such a talented musician, world class
Baba Yetu can be the Earth anthem.
This one seems more fit for the ones looking towards to stars and daring to cross the void between them. An organization settling e.g. the Moon, Mars or Alpha Centauri should have it as its anthem.
Baba Yetu's lyrics are a Christian prayer translated into Swahili and Christianity is the cancer of Mankind. So many human lives taken for no other reason than disobedience to a fantasy, so much scientific progress delayed in favour of worshipping ignorance. Baba Yetu, as beautiful as it is, shoudn't deserve to be even considered to represent all humans.
@@punkrockeris666 >blaming the faith itself and not the many zealots who've practiced it
Cool. Not like many significant scientific discoveries and great deeds were made by Christians as well...
Got my vote,
Planned to play Civ VI, but couldn't get past the menu.
Same
I couldn't play the game.....
Listened for 2 hours....
What happened?Civ 6 never crashed for me.
It's him saying that the music is so good that he didn't get past the menu screen to listen to it :P
Had the same problem
Bonum! This sounds like so much more than a theme for a game, more like the anthem for the planet Earth. THIS is how you follow "Baba Yetu"!
I am confused, do you like or not like the song.
I really do like it. I meant to say that, as a song, it shows such scale and grandeur, such that I wasn't expecting it from a strategy game.
There are many things in this opus looking like baba yetu : for exemple, 2:18 is the same "U FAL ME WAKO" theme in Bb minor (instead of C# minor in baba yetu)
anyway it's great music ! and i enjoy it
Jacob Wheeler All rise toward mesopotamia for the National anthem of the republic of earth
mesopotamia because it's where the first civilization is from.
One of my favourite things about this video (aside from the excellent music) is that Christopher Tin still reads all the comments left by fans! Thank you for composing such a great song!
👍
you are the GOAT@@christophertin
My Dad, who hates video games, actually asked me "What is that you're listening to?"
I think that is the only time he's ever liked any music I like.
games like the civ series are very popular among non gamers regardless, there are probably many a old grouchy retired history teachers building pyramids in the jungles of russia
@@KawaiiFemBoi yep, violence has made so many ppl say the truth, just ask the inquisition
@@queuedjar4578 I think Paradox games would be more to their likiny
You should try his music. It may be as good as this too. May be better? Who knows?
@@queuedjar4578 lmao
I GOT MY PILOT'S LICENSE! This song helped me achieve my dream of becoming a pilot. My first Solo flight taking off pushing the throttle forward as the song Crescendos is pure gloria! Thank you for this amazing song.
I listen to this when I watch adult only things on the internet.
@@TL8311-j6x inspiring
Congrats mate! I have my license too and I think of my first solo flight in 2015 when the song plays. I know how amazing the feeling is😁 Well done mate👍🏻
Dude, congratulations! Take this inspiration with you as you soar in the skies
bro when I was hour building to my commercial license I would listen to music like this and go run rural canyons for fun. Based zulu 3s. Got it out of my system, fly airliners now lol
Religion victory - Baba Yetu
Science victory - Sogno di Volare
Which should I write next?
@@christophertin War Victory !
@@christophertin "War" victory, not over other men, but victory over barbarism, fear, and greed. The concepts that have held humanity back for thousands of years and led to so much despair, anguish and suffering.
Perhaps, alternately, a 'culture' victory, but more how cultures never 'win' long term, but are all interwoven to make us what we are today. We still have concepts from the former founding 'civilizations' (real world) Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, Indian, Chinese, etc. that guide how we interconnect and interact with our friends, families, neighbors, other citizens of our countries, and other nations around the world.
Shame it didn't come attached to a good game like Baba Yetu did.
@@hakuso.3 I've honestly found myself wanting to play Civ 6 more and more over 5 the more I get into it. I feel like a tool for paying full price for Gathering Storm but it actually does add a lot of replayability
The perfect song that embodies the human spirit for exploration and discovery.
Before listening to this masterpiece, I had never thought about how much of a great achievement flying was for humanity. "Man will be lifted by his own creation" part gives me goosebumps even after listening to it for over 30 times!
Literally lifted lol
Not only that, but how fast it changed our world, and how fast our technology advanced. It took us 66 years to go from the first powered flight in 1903 to landing on the moon in 1969. That’s insane!
That and discovery of fire too
@@NNYYLL nah, Promethius gave us that.
Totally agree with you!
as an italian im pretty proud that one of my favourite song from a game is in italian.
beautiful music
Non puoi capire quanto mi sono sciolto a sentire questo pezzo
Che poi da italiano io stesso, non avevo capito che la canzone fosse cantata in italiano finché non ho letto il testo del video...
As italian myself, I didn't know this song was in italian until I read the lyrics...
@@Sonico30 io pensavo fosse in italiano ma non me ero certo vista la pronuncia e il fatto che fosse un coro😂
@@Sonico30 Io ci sono arrivato dopo che ho sentito un "volare" a caso, non me l'aspettavo lol
Diamo quel tocco di classe e epicità in più signori. 🎩
This is no exaggeration: When I first started the game, and went through the settings, I found myself lingering just to hear this outstanding track. It SOUNDS like Civilization, whatever that means.
It's just on the same level on quality as Baba Yetu.
Kinda don't like the african cradle idea sound samples in there... i rather listen to what we can become, then from where we came...
good ol chris tin is back
it is heavily debated as to what the cradle of humanity is, the oldest human discovered now was in the middle east.
The song itself is an epic. Encompassing the beauty of the series as a whole, from the sprawling seas of time and the ever-approaching future era of glorious peace or patriotic war. The human nature to discover, research, crawl, move, and become better from our trials. Idk. Christopher Tin just REALLY knows what he's doing
I bought this game on Steam and started playing it yesterday.
I instantly liked this theme, and once I understood that it was sung in my language, I loved it even more.
Love from Italy 💚🤍❤
I assumed it was Latin.
@@danielcreatd872 Close, but no, it's italian
This absolute lad is still hearting everyone's comments.
Just been on a reddit thread and he was there. Top bloke
Hi Christopher.
I am now 32 years old and I have played MANY videogames throughout my life.
The most important thing to me in a game has always been the music, a game can rise or fall with good or bad music.
I thought I'd already heard all of the greatest videogame soundtracks that exist, but today I bought CIV 6 and my jaw dropped to the floor.
I don't even want to start an actual match, I just wanna stay in the main menu and listen to this glorious piece of music.
Not just one of the most beautiful videogame soundtracks ever, but possibly one of the most epic compositions I've ever listened to, period!
Cheers from Germany, you've created something of immortal value.
I have to agree with. 34 yrs old myself and it doesn't get much better than this. Having said that, Civ games always have good music. Baba Yetu from Civ IV is just as good I think.
Don't forget to park on the menu screen of CIV 4 too!
PLEASE play Horizon Zero Dawn!
The music creates this unmatched atmospheric aesthetic and the story is superb. The best single player RPG I have ever played in my life.
@@GoBlueHTB
I agree, but the Mass Effect Trilogy is even better than that. The story, characters and music fit together perfectly
besser konnte man es nicht schreiben
If I ever hear anyone saying they don't like modern classical music, I simply play this. It's a tragedy that modern classical is overlooked by many, because to my mind, if Christopher Tin had written choral music of this standard several hundred years ago, he'd be held in the same esteem as household names like Brahms (my personal favourite) and Beethoven. That's not an exaggeration, this is a truly magnificent piece of music from an amazing composer; I fear that it's only a level of snobbery within some musical circles that keeps modern composers from getting the wider recognition they absolutely deserve.
I always found it so wild and moving that Da Vinci wrote a song about humanity achieving flight after he and the other greatest minds of the time couldn't achieve it. Something about the spirit needed to dream that big despite it seeming completely impossible for even the foremost science of the day is really inspiring.
He knew that human ingenuity and stubborness would make it possible someday
The most beautiful thing is that it is due to dreamers like da Vinci having the dream in the first place and writing about it, designing it, even if he was so far from the mark, that people like the Wright brothers were able to realize the concept in reality. A dream sets a plan in motion, maybe it won't become real in your lifetime, but someday someone will share your passion and make it so. That's what I believe.
Leonardo da Vinci never wrote a song about achieving flight. If you are referring to "And once you have tasted flight..." that was a voice over by Fredric March and written by John H. Secondari. If you are referring to something else, I would be interested in knowing what "song" he wrote about flight
"For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return"
Civilization 4
It's also in civ 6 once u discover flight I think.
Yeah, that quote is in Civ VI as well :D
Its a quote from Leonardo Da Vinci.
The quotes were alays epic in the Civ games, even if sometimes not really original (I mean, the good old "I have become death, the destructor of worlds" for nuclear weapons, c'mon...)
+Lord Shadoko Oppenheimer, right? "I am become death" hahaAnd they're quotes, hard to be original if you're quoting somebody.
“For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will long to return.” - Leonardo di Vinci, Flight Tech Quote, Civilization IV
(R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy)
I had my first flight last year I believe and no matter how limited the view were it felt fucking amazing. Seeing the clouds as the plane soar, feeling the gravity of Mother Earth pushing down, alongside with the beautiful sea it feels amazing. I would love to experience it, I was pretty much awake half the time the flight just staring out of the window.
I'm starting to think the one thing Christopher Tin really wants to compose is an anthem for all of humanity
argebarse I think he already does.
He has already made two.
argebarse Baba Yetu is the anthem of Earth. Sogno di Volare is the anthem for humans once we leave Earth
You got that right.
@@sharplydressedrabbit3604 totally agree
WE MAKIN IT OUT OF THE DARK AGES WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥
La bellezza di testo che ha fatto da Vinci è una meraviglia già conosciuta. Ma, anche la melodia che tu hai fatto è il grandissimo capolavoro. È l'inno di tutta la umanità. Grazie, Christopher.
complimenti per l'italiano!
Did I read that right? Lyrics by Leonardo da Vinci? Holy shit.
Ginger Gamer
#renaissanceman
@laflugantabastardo Man, I hate fake quotes.
There's another one misattributed to Voltaire "to know who rules over you, you must find out who you are not allowed to criticise". It's not from Voltaire. Someone misattributed it and went viral. The real quote is from Kevin Strom.
Thanks for the info.
@@galenusv7831 Well Kevin could just change his last name to Voltaire, and then he could claim the quote was from Voltaire!
I was expecting this song to be good, but this good?
How's that even possible?
Have NoName Tin magic ;)
not as good as the road to milford sound
Cerii Very powerful magic indeed, I've been listening this for at least half an hour every day.
The Tin man found his heart.
It's been 6 years now... And I still get goosebumps every time I download the game again to play with my friends and I hear this masterpiece playing in the main menu.
"Lyrics by Leonardo da Vinci"
Shit, I thought my boy Leo had stopped his music career! Cant wait for Renaissance Man Mixtape II !
He is still spitting them tracks even in his grave
"He is still spitting them tracks even in his grave"
Bruh, thats my FAV line as well from "Fuck Heliocentri$m" diss track..
I am the L-E-O-N-A-R-D-O man and Da Vinchi!
good one, i remember when this track was a hit... t'was featured by mc galileo and dj copernicus
He formed a group already, haven't you heard? With Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael.
When humanity unites and becomes an interstellar empire, this song will be the anthem of humanity.
you have a lot of hope
@@bricklanzo1484 if one doesn't have hope one has nothing
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec hope is gay, watch ATLA
@@bricklanzo1484 then you are a fool
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec I agree Man of Culture
Such a beautiful piece. Tin is truly a master composer. Not only does this sound incredible, for me (at least) I think it displays a nice contrast of his last piece, Baba Yetu.
Baba Yetu almost sounds reflective in it’s presentation, like it’s saying “Look what we’ve accomplished, look at how far we’ve come.”
Volare, on the other hand, sounds triumphant and powerful. Like it’s looking towards the sky. Like it’s saying “Look how far we can go.”
you're right, they're both beautiful in their own unique way
We may have gone far, but this is nothing compared to how far we can go!!!!!!
actually baba yetu is more like a religious chanting, because the translation is literally "our father" prayer
@@borderline.monster5710 I still like it, mostly because they sing in Swahili and i want to learn Swahili :)
I like this comparison! I love both very much, but for me, there’s something about Baba Yetu that’s feels “large scale”, like there’s something bigger than the song itself. Sogno is epic and grand but Baba Yeti moves me to f-in tears.every.dang.time 😭
Few hours ago my first boy was born. I left mother and baby in hospital, I went home.
Here I am crying like a little baby, and tears of pure joy with these masterpiece as background. Don't know which one gives me more gloria
Huge congratulations!!!
@@christophertin Thank you, good sir.
Humans: (builds a plane that can glide a few feet off the ground)
Humans: It's not enough. We can make it go higher.
Humans: (builds a plane that can break the sound barrier)
Humans: It's not enough. We can make it go faster.
Humans: (builds jumbo jets that can transport hundreds across the ocean)
Humans: It's not enough. We can make it bigger.
Humans: (reaches outer space and plants a flag on the goddamn moon)
Humans: Well, it's a start, I guess.
The stars, our destination
@@graceskerp Humans: (reaches the stars and builds an intergalactic empire)
Humans: It's not enough. Let's see if there actually are parallel worlds.
@@KrimzonFlygon1 Humans: Multi-verses? Now that has potential.
Humans: (Reached furthest reaches of cosmos)
Humans: Wait, we might just be in a computer simulation, let's create a bigger one than this...
Manoj Kumar humans: realize that we aren’t in a simulation
Humans: build a whole new universe that we don’t know what is in it just to explore it
Humans: watches the species of the new Universe unite and kill every last human and blow up Earth
Hello Mr. Cristopher! I am 13 years old and I love this music. You did an amazing job with it! I can't stop listening to it as well as my friends. sometimes I play civilization just for this piece of art. fantastic!
Greetings from Poland.
By the way I'm still learning English so sorry for my mistakes
Your English is very good!
Agree fully from Denmark
You have a very good English, Michal!
Your English is good! A bit of constructive criticism: it should be Mr. Tin, not Mr. Christopher. And "as well as my friends should be "and my friends can't either". No mistakes I can see other than that and a few missed capitalizations.
@@jasper2621 Constructive criticism: "your" and "you're" are different. :)
Mr.tin got the cultural victory again.
There should be a mod including Christopher Tin and Sid Meier as Great People
Fuck that, they should be Great People in the base game. I don't care how self-aggrandizing it is. Although if we're adding modern composers, John Williams is a must-include as well.
Let's not continue this demand to add certain people as Great Person or we'll get Justin Bieber as Great Musician.
*shudders* Perish the thought! lol.
Sid gave his name for the ultimate difficulty in Civ3, and oneof the most powerful corporations in Civ4, and it's his name on the thing always. Maybe he felt that was enough for now.
This song was recommended to me randomly in a streaming service. And it struck me like a lightning. Now when i found it with lyrics it actually makes me tear up. Such a majestic hymn to the humankind's aspiration and triumph! It makes me wish to be hopeful and strong again. Maybe i will, one day. Thank you for this beautiful piece!
Christopher Tin has created the great work "Sogno di Volare"
Haha, the developer should implement that in next patch
That would be hilarious AND awesome, if Christopher Tin were included as a Modern Era Great Artist. xD
As an Italian, Thank you Christopher.
What you have created is beautiful: an hymn to humanity's accomplishments and ongoing thirst for knowledge, progress and discovery, with a stunning poetry-like sentence structure ('Lì a casa il cuore sentirai').
This is why everyone calls you a Great musician.
why beautiful classical music makes me wanna cry?
I know this was uploaded 6 years ago, but my husband just started playing this game on the Switch. I myself have not played a single minute of this game, but immediately had to look up this song when it came on. I'm now listening to the entire Civ 6 soundtrack, nothing beats this triumphant-sounding piece. Well done, Christopher Tin. I think you've single-handedly inspired a generation of people.
Is that another Grammy for the Civilization Series I hear?
Ryan Draheim Who knows! :D
Hell i'd vote for it...
probably not. Why? Because this is not much more impressive than average movie compositions. The vocal aspect has very little going for it
baba yetu won a grammy for civ 4, its more along the lines of "he's done it again, another great piece by christopher tin"
Deaf or just trolling?
A beautiful reminder of what humanity is capable of
Have you seen the Game's Opening video? I love the speech on the last part of it.
That Guy If we only look up. Look to heaven and all things are possible.
Really just white people and Asians.
Well to be fair. The last 2000 years or so, all major discoveries has been done by europeans (including people of european descent) and Asians (mostly east asians).
Lol Africans enslaved themselves and sold their brothers to Jewish traders who took them to America. Don't put that on me, all my ancestors did was buy them.
That song makes me cry, it's so f*cking beautiful
GOOOOOAAAATT - so excited to hear you are doing Civ 7!!
Grazie per questo capolavoro in Italiano !
@@Mickeymoon-j2x ma avete problemi mentali o scrivete così a caso no perché non ha senso quello che hai detto
@@Mickeymoon-j2x OK ma esprimerlo bestemmiando non mi sembra molto corretto... Ma vabbè ormai le bestemmie in Italia sono uno schifo di abitudine quindi la smetto qui
@@Mickeymoon-j2x che tipo che sei hahahah
A lot modern music doesn't seem to do it for me, and I constantly find myself looking backwards to some of my favorite composers. This includes not only the Mozarts or Beethovens or Holst, but the great movie composers like John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone and Alan Silvestri.
It amazes me now that some of the best music I find is being introduced to me through video games, and artists like Nobuo Uematsu, Geoff Knorr, Michael Curran and of course Christopher Tin are creating our new classics. Bravo gentlemen!
I honestly believe Christopher Tin is one of the greatest composers of our era.
civ always gives you a way to realize how far huminaty has come and you just can't have any other feeling than beeing proud. This Theme perfectly portrayes this feeling.
The NASA rover Perseverance will be landing on Mars in two days (February 18, 2021). During the livstream, I'll play this song in the final 4 minutes leading to touchdown, because it's such a fitting piece for such a historic point in time. Thank you for this, sir! Truly.
I hope you record that sir :(
Perfect for the first flight(s) of Ingenuity, our first aircraft on another world!
Send us plagues and wars, and we will not only survive but come out stronger, better, more determined to push the boundaries possible. because we don't know when to give up.
That is the real superpower of humanity, no matter WHAT, we keep marching on to greatness.
As cheesy as it may sound but if we ever *have* an anthem for humanity, this would be a solid contender in my eyes. It's about human ingenuity and what we can achieve together. We literally made tons of metal fly. We put people on top of a stack of explosives and sent them off careening into the sky ... and we brought them back in one piece. Well most of them... but those that didn't come back will not be forgotten either.
The ones that didn't make it all the way were still taken along for the journey- even if they couldn't actually see it themselves.
I guess this song could really fit, because it doesnt talk about the dark past of humanity or the odds faced because of religion and culture, rather it talks about the future and the great feats we can achieve together, when the plane was invented it was not made for a nation, rather to humanity itself
Also, it's about Leonardo da Vinci, who is pretty much the quintessential human because he was an artist, a scientist, and, most importantly, an engineer.
Hmm also Fanfare for the Common Man is a pretty strong contender imo
@@presidentbanana4536 Leonardo da Vinci, achieving all types of victories since 1452. (except world domination of course, but yknow...)
One of the most OP humans to ever live, if not the most OP human in history.
Baba Yetu made it, lets go for another grammy boys. Seriously though tin, great job with this, you've outdone yourself again.
I cry when I hear this. Bravo!!! Great person was born, great work created! Thank you so much, dear Christopher! God save Christopher! Long live Christopher!
Whenever I hear this song my mind IMMEDIATELY goes to "From the first stirrings of life beneath water... to the great beasts of the Stone Age... to man taking his first upright steps, you have come far. Now begins your greatest quest: from this early cradle of civilization on towards the stars."
To the stars and beyond.
Per aspera ad astra my friend.
Heroic Frederick...king of the Germans, your task is to forge the independent states that surround you into an empire. You are blessed to be a great military leader. Use those skills to bring those cities under your sway, so that they may develop into military and industrial powerhouses. Surely then the bards will sing of Frederick with the red beard, the great Holy Roman Emperor.
And the best thing: Sean Bean's voice in your mind by just reading it...
Cast your net wide, oh Trajan, emperor of mighty Rome. Your legions stand at the ready to march out and establish the largest empire the world has ever seen. If you can truly get all roads to lead to Rome, yours will be an empire of great riches and luxuries. Surely then our citizens will proclaim you as their best ruler, the Optimus Princeps.
When the song begins, I think of the clicking of the main menu folding open
Behold, the national anthem of Humanity.
Holy shit I did not expect the composer himself to notice and approve of this. I am glad you agree, Christopher. You make great music and I look forward to all future music you will make, wherever you are hired.
Honestly, it is fitting that the anthem of humanity come from Italy, home to the greatest empire in human history
In love this one! I'm also crazy for the composer's other work (Baba Yetu).
I kind of want both of them as anthems of humanity as a whole.
We should run a Petition to make this the United Nations Anthem.
Agreed!!!
Civ IV: Baba Yetu is the best videogame theme ever made.
Civ VI: *I'm gonna honour this game's whole legacy*
Ignacio Cañas such an underrated comment , hats off
@@mohammedhishammukhtar612 Thanks man, I appreciate it.
Civ V Brave New World: Baba Yetu may be iconic and pretty good, but overrated. Let's make something beautiful instead of celebratory.
Civ VI: sorry BNW AND IV, i can do both at the same time, and better to boot!
???: Amateurs...
IV and BNW: what was that, PUNK!?
HOI4: I said, AMATEURS!
Al Nadda is better tho 😛
Al nadda? What is that?
OMG is not only epic, its emotive, touching, moving, uplifting.
Can you imagine this playing in a compilation stretching from Leonardo's flying machines, to the Wright Brothers, Chuck Yeagar, Yuri Gagarin, and finally to Apollo 11?
Well... that's why I'm creating a full album out of it! To make it a part of the history of great visionaries like Earhart, Gagarin, JFK and more.
(To both you and @Autistic Foamer, I guess)
I was actually thinking of using this (properly licensed, of course) in a compilation about progress in my fictional universe and corresponding alternate history, with most of the video clips made in an extremely heavily modified version of Kerbal Space Program.
Specifically, it would be used when an alien people first attain flight on the back of a semi-domestic creature during what is their Late Paleolithic and our Early Paleolithic (the very first event) and when they finally achieve contact with humans after the Pegasus 2 mission in either the 2080s or 2140s, depending on the alternate history scenario I select (the very last event). Other *lesser* songs would be used for intermediate events like the first alien landing and returning from their habitable moon, the first human flight, the first non-stop aerial circumnavigation of Earth, the first Mars landing, etc. ;)
+ Christopher Tin I eagerly await your album, but until it comes out, a university aviation program created this phenomenal animation in the style of the Civilization games, set to your sublime "Dream of Flight". th-cam.com/video/6yNBDCOGTpg/w-d-xo.html
+Autistic Foamer The closest thing I've seen to that is this video, but it's pretty darn close. th-cam.com/video/6yNBDCOGTpg/w-d-xo.html
I think it runs deeper than that - I interpret it not as simply about "flight" in the literal sense, but as the flight of the human mind. I work in video and I'm thinking of making a videoclip encompassing the whole human evolution and achievement - science, art, the good and the bad, the fact that we are here and we demand to be heard by the universe. To believe that something must persist, that the path must be worth it, that we are valuable because we are human. This is an incredible piece, an amazing statement on human desire, the essence of humanity. To quote a great poet, when faced with the unacceptable, with the inherent imperfection of life, "there must be a way.
surely there must be a way that we have not yet
though of.
who put this brain inside of me?
it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.
it will not say
"no."
fucking majestic. If I ever want to create my own country, I know who will make an anthem
Consider to create one country in BitNation. If you want, we make it together
no I meant for real not some joke nation
So you think BitNation as a joke?
WELL I think its a little different than a real nation but who am I to judge
If you own a piece of land(or a house at least), you can start your own micro-nation. One of the best examples of a micro-nation is the Principality of Sealand.
Without Christopher Tin's music, the Civ games wouldn't be the same.
what game?
@@ballantrae101 and @LazyGamblingBear specifically, 4, 5 and 6. Though I cant remember if he did the music for 3 as well.
@@idcgaming518 He did not do the music for Civ 5. Nor for 3, 2, 1.
He only composed for 2 of them hahah
Specifically, the man achieved putting soul into the music. It's one thing to hear some wardrums or horse charge or trumpet symphony, but you and I both know Baba Yetu seared itself into our heads the very first time we heard it. Mr. Tin's accomplishment is rooted in that he made his music *distinctive*.
This piece of art restores my faith in humanity everytime I listen to it. What a great song! Thank you Christopher a million times!
This song outright makes me cry. I'm almost certainly convinced I'm sociopathic in my degree of apathy for the world and yet I hear this and I stop thinking about the game, about how music is 'just' music, and I feel that ache in my heart.
Mediocre art is almost 90%, maybe even 99% of what we consume. But what we really live for, is this. This one percent that manages to resonate deep within.
Thank you, for writing this. You've made the world a slightly better place to live in.
This is not only a masterpiece of song. This is a national anthem that literally any nation would approve. The struggles we had during our history, past present and future. This is the song that resembles how mankind has advanced and even surpassed nature. How we can even go further. This will Always be THE song of The humankind history.good job
Anyone else get a really heart warming and fulfilling feeling listening to this?
Daniel A me
Anyone else get goosebumps when it gets going? Chills must mean it's awesome 👌
Follow that feeling and learn as deeply from it as you can, you'd be surprised where it might lead you.
@@StarlightsRest Look at you, being a muse.
I love the nuance in the title: "Sogno di volare" means both "The dream of flight" and "I dream of flying". I think it incapsulates both the individual and shared components of human progress
Petition the United Nations to make this the anthem of humanity!
It's not the UN, but this was my personal theme for the Distant Worlds 2 expedition in Elite Dangerous. 3 years to the day after 1100 players set out for an epic 70,000 lightyear journey across a 1:1 scale Milky Way, 12,000 players started that journey all over again. That burning desire to reach for the sky and the stars beyond is what drove us. Those who sought the path of "Explorer" would rarely stay in inhabited space for long before heading out again.
Of those 12,000, less than 1/3 of them completed the expedition. But it was never about the destination, but rather the journey. The friends we made at the waypoints, the shenanigans we got up to whenever we had the chance, and just having a blast across 5 months.
Video is not mine, but sums up the trip quite nicely.
th-cam.com/video/awdsTmCQrOA/w-d-xo.html
Fox D As much as I would agree that Baba Yetu would make a good anthem of humanity, I doubt the religions that aren’t Christian would like it very much. This song is much more unifying. I do like this song much better, as a student pilot it speaks to me.
Micke human and humanity don't go together
@Arthur the Infidel Fair enough
Seriously? Yes.
Imagine all of the people of the planet singing, dancing with this playing. Humanity coul really be proud ! We are not the same by face or culture, but we should never forget the fact we're all the same specie, a specie destined to do great things!
Cheers and respect to all who read.
Agent.O Indeed! we need to look at the positive sides off humanty more. Watching the syrian civil war and Islamic state massacring a great number of people makes you question humans as a whole, but as you said one day humanety will realise what our main purpose is :D
We need a culture victory against the middle east lol
yep, totally, but first we must erradicate some cultures first. You know, the ones who are fighting each other for stuffs that actually don't exists.
IDarkNight Well, more and more people realise there is no god (at least cant be proven) among us. Give humanity some time and religion will only be part of humanity's long history :)
"Mankind will be lifted by its own creation."
Unfortunately, mankind can be dragged down by its own creation too. :(
Mr Tin, you are a modern day Mozart; a literal musical genius. Your music is incredible. Can’t wait to see what you create next!
I no longer play civilization six but this song will always be in my playlist
It's on mine as well!
I still constantly play civ 6 but have gotten way into stellaris .
@@HiLoMusicsay goodbye to many many hours of your life and much of your wallet
This should be the world's anthem
Motion Seconded!
We are not one...
Agreed
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This song revels in the glory of all of humanity, and extols our collective accomplishments to the greatest heights. It is what music should be, what it could be. Every chord, every note, every harmony a love letter to the greatest species to have ever existed, in all that it represents. Simultaneously chaotic and orderly, ugly and beautiful, majestic, and yet, despite coming close to the divine, we remain human.