James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Secondhand Orchestra - The Great White Sea Eagle

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Lush new collaborative album from James Yorkston, The Second Hand Orchestra and Nina Persson of The Cardigans.
Description
The record didn’t start life as a follow up; in early 2021, Yorkston began visiting his studio in Cellardyke, Fife and for the first time, starting writing songs on the piano as opposed to his usual guitar as he gazed upon the sea outside his window. 

After sending the first five or six songs to Karl-Jonas Winqvist (the ringleader/conductor of TSHO), they began to discuss working on the music together. With Yorkston’s shift from guitar to piano, they thought about what other changes they could make to their process which led to the involvement of a guest singer and the legendary Nina Persson (The Cardigans) was brought into the fold. 

They followed the same methodology as The Wide, Wide River – apart from James, Nina and KJ, none of The Second Hand Orchestra had heard the music prior to entering the studio – and the arrangements were made up on the spot. Yorkston summarises: “Everyone who was playing in The Second Hand Orchestra, in their own way they are all unique and colourful players. There was no-one there who didn’t know what to do. I would bring them the songs, we would start one - I would play it, and second time round people would start singing and playing, and by the time we had done it three or four times we would hit record and we would be ready to go. And the thing that they all had was the ability to give each other space and to come up with their parts based on what other people were playing naturally was a very quick process, and they were all so open, nobody was egotistical. Everything was just happy. I love the wildness in it.”
Editions

+ Dinked Edition 226
+ Oxblood Colour Vinyl *
+ Bonus Flexidisc featuring exclusive track ‘Wake In The Cracks’ *
+ Numbered edition *
+ Limited pressing of 500 *

* EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition

+ Available on Indie Exclusive Dark Green colour vinyl.

Tracklisting

Side A
1. Sam & Jeanie McGreagor
2. An Upturned Crab
3. Keeping Up With The Grandchildren, Yeah
4. The Heavy Lyric Police
5. A Sweetness In You
6. A Forestful Of Rougues

Side B
1. Peter Paulo Van Der Heyden
2. Mary
3. Hold Out For Love
4. The Harmony
5. The Great White Sea Eagle
6. A Hollow Skeleton Lifts A Heavy Wing

Release Info

Release Date: 13th January 2023
Format: LP or CD
Label: Domino

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