Reimagining the wide, wide river, by The Second Hand Orchestra

Reimagining the wide, wide river

by The Second Hand Orchestra

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1.	Old fashioned blues (in two parts) 03:01	buy track
2.	There is no upside (no downside either) 04:53	buy track
3.	Ella Mary Leather (instrumental) 03:07	buy track
4.	Choices like wide rivers (new songs also) 05:50	buy track
5.	We test the beams (for 7+ minutes) 07:37	buy track
6.	A droplet forms (really, truly) 04:16	buy track
7.	The Secret Beach (feat James Yorkston) 06:23	buy track

about

In 2020 Karl Jonas invited the brilliant Scottish songwriter and artist James Yorkston to his small club in Stockholm, Sweden.
And the second hand orchestra was asked to support J.Y that very night..
So we did, but what was not expected was that we also ended up, improvising, on stage with James for his encore numbers.
Was a great night.

So, something clicked between us and we all quickly went into a studio the morning after to "start up something"....
James played us new songs and we all listened and then tried to back him up . And that was the start of the album "the wide, wide river" by James Yorkston & the second hand orchestra. We did one more recording session with him and the album was finished. Like a whirlwind...

Then came the Pandemic.
James wrote us a month later and asked if we wanted to do an instrumental dub version of a track from the album.
We went back to the same lovely studio where we recorded the album with James (Lars Fredrik Swahn's studio in Solna) and tried to remember and revisit the songs we recorded with him a month earlier.

And not wanting to copy what we previously did, we focused on fragments we remembered and improvised around it.
And started building our own instrumental songs around the original.
Very loose and free. No rule in this school.

We recorded it live in two days. The last track "The secret beach" was recorded at the main recording sessions with James, but did not end up on his album, so we figured it should be on this, instead.

credits

released January 21, 2022

The Second Hand Orchestra players on this album:

Karl Jonas Winqvist - drums on "there is no upside"and the first part of "Old fashioned blues", backing vocals, siel cruise synth, bass harmonica, hammered dulcimer, percussion.

Annarella Sörlin - flute

Daniel "Våldet" Holmström - trumpet, fluegelhorn, drums on "A droplet forms" and the last part of "Old fashioned blues"

Emma Nordenstam - cello, piano, vocals on "the secret beach",backing vocals

Peter Morén - guitars and backing vocals

Ulrika "Ullis" Gyllenberg - violin and backing vocals

Per Lager - drums on "the secret beach"

Cecilia Österholm - nyckelharpa, backing vocals

Viktor Brobacke - trombone, melodica and backing vocals

Cecilia Klingspor - mandola guitar, electric guitar on "a droplet forms", vocals at the end of "there is no upside"

Felix Wickman - backing vocals on "the secret beach"

Ylva Ceder - oboe, backing vocals

Lars Fredrik Swahn - bass and backing vocals

James Yorkston - vocals on "the secret beach"
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All tracks were originally written by James Yorkston for the Domino Records album "The wide, wide river" by James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra.
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Track 1-6 was recorded and mixed by Lars Fredrik Swahn at his studio in Solna, Sweden.
Track 7 was recorded live and mixed in Studio Rymden by Daniel Bengtson.
Mastered by Daniel Ögren.
Artwork and shipbuilding: Nathaniel Russell
Produced by Karl Jonas Winqvist
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Thank you: James Yorkston for writing the original songs and for inviting us for the wild and joyous ride.
Bart & Domino records. Nathaniel for the amazing art!
Everyone involved in this album being made and everyone listening.
Love over gold, always!

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