James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Secondhand Orchestra - The Great White Sea EagleOn January 13th, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra will release The Great White Sea Eagle, the follow up to James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestras The Wide, Wide River a Guardian Top 10 Folk Album of 2021. The record didnt 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

Steve and Jason also played in Built To Spill together from 2012 until 2018

riddled with super-memorable motifs and melodies that nestle in reflective echo

Fittingly for a band who operate entirely by their own co-ordinates

Rush to Relax

finding powerful moments even in stale formats

with heavily echoed guitars

And some of the music is

the Afro-futurist visionary Sun Ra (the album’s title is a tip of the hat to his 1970 release Night of the Purple Moon)

who praised the record

THE PLAN has been described as ‰Û÷Talking Heads meets the Breeders‰۪ but debutalbum Nervous Energy takes the band in a moreprogressive and experimental direction

Keiron Melling (drums)

framed by open space and the sense of being far away