James Yorkston - Songs For Nina And Johanna - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra will The Wide, Wide River on January 22nd. The album came to be after the blossoming of a long-term friendship between James Yorkston and Karl-Jonas Winqvist, the Swedish music producer, leader and conductor of The Second Hand Orchestra. Recorded and mixed in Sweden over the course of three days with a selection of musicians Winqvist had brought together, including Peter Morén (Peter, Bjorn & John), Cecilia Ã-sterholm, Emma Nordenstam (piano & cello) and Ulrika Gyllenberg (violin). The Wide, Wide River is a soothing, warm and sublime listen, The record takes in past loves, advancing age and friends, now gone, whilst also containing some of the most sanguine songs Yorkston has ever made.Tracklist 1. Ella Mary Leather2. To Soothe Her Wee Bit Sorrows3. Choices, Like Wild Rivers4. Struggle5. There Is No Upside6. A Droplet Falls7. A Very Old-Fashioned Blues8. We Test The Beams

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan - a trio of James Yorkston (guitar/nyckelharpa/vocals), Jon Thorne (double-bass/vocals) and Suhail Yusuf Khan (sarangi/vocals) - are pleased to announce their new album Navarasa Nine Emotions.YTK unite one of the key spiritual visionaries and architects of Hindustani art music, the poet-philosopher Hazrat Amir Khusrau with the key literary visionary of Scottish and Scotslanguage culture, Robert Burns. This bricolage of diverse cross-cultural elements is apparent across Navarasa Nine Emotions, and all of what YTK create. James Yorkston weaves inScottish folk, sangster and literary strands; Jon Thorne is grounded in jazz and groove; what the New Delhi-based, eighth-generation hereditary musician Suhail Yusuf Khan brings to this feast of pulses and cycles is northern Indian classical, light classical (thumri, for example) and Sufi devotional musical and literary forms. What binds these diverse musical strands together is, in James' phrase, Incha dark happiness.InchNavarasa Nine Emotions is the trio's third record and follows Everything Sacred (2016) andit's successor Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars (2017).1. Sukhe Phool2. The Shearing's Not for You3. Thumri Bhairavi4. Westlin' Winds5. Song for Oddur6. The North Carr7. Twa Brothers8. Waliyan da Raja9. Darbari

The Great White Sea Eagle is the follow up to James Yorkston and The Secondhand Orchestra's The Wide, Wide River - a Guardian Top 10 Folk Album of 2021. Yorkston and Sweden's The Secondhand Orchestra had no real plans to do a follow up, but as James visited his studio in Cellardyke, Fife everyday in early 2021, he began to start 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 leader/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.1. Sam And Jeanie McGreagor2. An Upturned Crab3. Keeping Up With The Grandchildren, Yeah4. The Heavy Lyric Police5. A Sweetness In You6. A Forestful Of Rogues7. Peter Paulo Van Der Heyden8. Mary9. Hold Out For Love10. The Harmony11. The Great White Sea Eagle12. A Hollow Skeleton Lifts A Heavy Wing