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Een bijzondere samenwerking, hun tweede inmiddels, die resulteert in een album om wel een poosje op repeat te zetten. Ik ben niet snel onder de indruk, hiervan wel.


Yorkston and Sweden’s The Second Hand 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.  

One of the best folk albums of the past few years – James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s 2021 The Wide, Wide River – might just be equalled by The Great White Sea Eagle, which is so much the same and so different that there might just be a new genre on the horizon.

Underpinned by SHO’s distinctive, some might say unique and colourful, playing, the songs are shaped by austere humour, humanity, nature and grief.

A primary example of the latter is A Sweetness In You, which is dedicated to Yorkston’s friend, Scott Hutchison (of the Scottish band, Frightened Rabbit), but others (A Hollow Skeleton Lifts a Heavy Wing, The Harmony, and Mary) lift the mood just above sombre thanks to Persson’s effortless evocative singing.

Tracks:
01. Sam and Jeanie McGreagor
02. An Upturned Crab
03. Keeping Up With The Grandchildren, Yeah
04. The Heavy Lyric Police
05. A Sweetness In You
06. A Forestful Of Rogues
07. Peter Paulo Van Der Heyden
08. Mary
09. Hold Out For Love
10. The Harmony
11. The Great White Sea Eagle
12. A Hollow Skeleton Lifts A Heavy Wing

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0MHnYdUFrI