James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra

James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra announce new album The Great White Sea Eagle due 13th Jan 2023 and share live video for the albums first single Hold Out For Love.

Following James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s 2021 album The Wide, Wide River Yorkston began visiting his studio in Cellardyke, Fife and began writing songs on piano as opposed to his usual guitar as he viewed the sea from his window.

Having sent 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 Nina Persson (The Cardigans) was brought into the fold.

Following the same methodology as The Wide, Wide River where apart from James, Nina and KJ, none of The Second Hand Orchestra had heard any of the the music before arriving at the studio the arrangements were made on the spot which Yorkston explains: “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.”

Upcoming live dates

9th November – Gartmore Village Hall, Stirling *
11th November – Beat Generator, Dundee *

9th December – Claypath Delicatessen, Durham * (sold out)
10th December – The Railway, Winchester *
11th December – Florence Park Community Centre, Oxford *
12th December – Kitchen Garden, Birmingham *
13th December – The Smokehouse, Ipswich *

16th December - Rönnells Antikvariat, Stockholm ^
17th December - Folk Å Rock, Malmö ^

1st February - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen ~
3rd February – Summerhall, Edinburgh ~
4th February - Celtic Connections, Glasgow ~
5th February - Future Yard, Birkenhead ~
6th February - Jazz Café, London ~
7th February – YES, Manchester ~
8th February - The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge ~
9th February - Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick ~
10th February – Louisiana, Bristol ~
11th February – St Stephens in the High Street, Exeter ~
12th February - Komedia Theatre, Brighton ~

* = solo show
^ = James Yorkston and Nina Persson
~ = James Yorkston, Nina Persson and members of The Second Hand Orchestra

Tickets available here

The Great White Sea Eagle is available to preorder on limited edition Dinked vinyl (oxblood coloured with bonus track on flexi disc), Dom Mart/indies edition vinyl (dark green coloured vinyl), standard vinyl, CD and digitally. Preorder: Dom Mart | Digital

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