James Yorkston Makes A Mix For Indie Sunset In Rome

About The Wide, Wide River, his new album, James Yorkston told Indie Sunset In Rome, “This beautiful album [was] made with The Second Hand Orchestra, a Swedish band ran by Karl-Jonas, a man I have known for a few years now. The Second Hand Orchestra hadn’t heard any of these songs before the sessions. I flew to Sweden and said my hellos, then we all sat round and set up our instruments. I would run through a song, once, perhaps twice, and simply encourage the musicians to react to what they were hearing. The engineer would press record and – voila – we’d have a song down. This here album is the result of eight such castings of the net. We all love it – it was a joy to make and is fresh, spontaneous, and full of life.” The site has a “mixtape” curated by Yorkston. Check it out here.