Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist James Yorkston, English guitarist David A. Jaycock, and Swedish saxophonist Lina Langendorf unite in a collaborative album that seamlessly weaves together elements of folk, jazz, and atmospheric soundscapes. This project, born from longstanding friendships and mutual musical admiration, offers a richly textured journey—both intimate and expansive. The album's genesis lies in Yorkston's enduring partnership with Jaycock, dating back to their collaboration on the 2009 album Folk Songs with The Big Eyes Family Players. Yorkston's more recent collaboration with Langendorf emerged through their work with The Second Hand Orchestra, a Swedish music collective led by Karl-Jonas Winqvist. Their combined influences—ranging from Hindustani classical music and Irish piping to the experimental sounds of Faust and the rhythms of The Drummers of Burundi—culminate in a soundscape that is both reflective and innovative.
Recorded across diverse locales—Cellardyke, Cornwall, and Stockholm—the album features Yorkston on nyckelharpa, Jaycock on guitar and synths, and Langendorf on saxophone. The result is a series of compositions that evoke the serenity of Nordic landscapes, the warmth of Mediterranean melodies, and the exploratory spirit of avant-garde improvisation. As on an endless autumn evening in front of a lake in Finland or Estonia, the trio's nordic soul creates atmospheres that recall hidden nostalgia. In a process of rarefied sound matter, elegiac paintings spring up, moments that flow slowly and silently in a tension that is always suspended and unresolved. Soft, crepuscular passages, at times sharp and cold guitar, but also the velvety breath of the nickelharpa, combine with a saxophone that still blows dramas of distant Norwegian fjords, but can also become more Mediterranean and arabesque. The music becomes like a warm warmth around the fire, reflecting a hidden twilight zone of the soul, in a quiet, gentle whisper between poetic abstraction and arpeggiated themes of mor
