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JAMES YORKSTON | BERLIN
Event by: QUASIMODO Berlin, New Berlin Konzerte & Events GmbH, Berthold Seliger - Büro für Musik, Texte & Strategien, James Yorkston
Location: Quasimodo, Kantstraße 12A, Berlin - Bezirk Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
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Acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston has announced that his brand new album Songs for Nina and Johanna will be released on August 22nd via Domino. The album is his sixteenth with Domino and his third recorded in Stockholm with members of the Second Hand Orchestra. Nina Persson (The Cardigans), who collaborated with James on his last critically acclaimed album The Great White Sea Eagle, this time shares vocal duties with Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit), with the pair singing separately from James on five and four tracks respectively. A Moment Longer and Love / Luck, the first two tracks from the upcoming album, were released today and can be heard here.
Songs for Nina and Johanna is a meditation on family, love and parenthood, filled with gentle melodies and poignant lyrics. The album was recorded live at Studio Rymden in Stockholm with co-producer Daniel Bengtson and features two of Sweden's best-known singers: "Who wouldn't jump at the chance to sing with two great Swedish voices," says Yorkston. "When the idea of bringing Johanna on board arose, I immediately jumped at the chance. Nina and Johanna complement each other, but never compete. And me? I tried not to get in their way, tried to give them the space to interpret the songs the way they feel.
Söderberg was heavily pregnant with her second child during the recording sessions, which perhaps allowed a certain emotion to flow into their performances. And although the leader of the Second Hand Orchestra, Karl Jonas Winqvist, rarely appears due to illness, the members of the collective are still prominently featured on the album, including Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John) on guitar, Ullis Gyllenberg on violin, Lina Langendorf on saxophone and Lars Skoglund on drums.
The album will be released on CD, digitally and on vinyl, with a limited Dinked LP that includes a bonus CD with four of Songs for Nina and Johanna is one of the most vital and life-affirming works that Yorkston has written to date. It touches the heart, the soul and is full of human warmth.
Acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston has announced that his brand new album Songs for Nina and Johanna will be released on August 22nd via Domino. The album is his sixteenth with Domino and his third recorded in Stockholm with members of the Second Hand Orchestra. Nina Persson (The Cardigans), who collaborated with James on his last critically acclaimed album The Great White Sea Eagle, this time shares vocal duties with Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit), with the pair singing separately from James on five and four tracks respectively. A Moment Longer and Love / Luck, the first two tracks from the upcoming album, were released today and can be heard here.
Songs for Nina and Johanna is a meditation on family, love and parenthood, filled with gentle melodies and poignant lyrics. The album was recorded live at Studio Rymden in Stockholm with co-producer Daniel Bengtson and features two of Sweden's best-known singers: "Who wouldn't jump at the chance to sing with two great Swedish voices," says Yorkston. "When the idea of bringing Johanna on board arose, I immediately jumped at the chance. Nina and Johanna complement each other, but never compete. And me? I tried not to get in their way, tried to give them the space to interpret the songs the way they feel.
Söderberg was heavily pregnant with her second child during the recording sessions, which perhaps allowed a certain emotion to flow into their performances. And although the leader of the Second Hand Orchestra, Karl Jonas Winqvist, rarely appears due to illness, the members of the collective are still prominently featured on the album, including Peter Morén (Peter Bjorn and John) on guitar, Ullis Gyllenberg on violin, Lina Langendorf on saxophone and Lars Skoglund on drums.
The album will be released on CD, digitally and on vinyl, with a limited Dinked LP that includes a bonus CD with four of Songs for Nina and Johanna is one of the most vital and life-affirming works that Yorkston has written to date. It touches the heart, the soul and is full of human warmth.