Second Hand Orchestra
So, This Is Christmas...
The conductor says: "CHRiSTMAS SONGS?" "Well, yes... Perhaps we don't need another generic, big budget Christmas album with the same glossy arrangements for the 101st time... But this is not one of those. The working title for the album was 'The Second Hand Orchestra - Chewing The Home-Cooked Christmas Candy.' And the idea was to bring back the love we once had for these songs, so we decided to go into a studio with free minds and have some loose jams. Some of the songs we could not remember fully, so we focused on specific parts and others we knew (too well) and had to play around with them a little to make them ours. While not being professionals at cooking Christmas candy, we really put our love into this and yes, you can eat as many as you like!" The Swedish 8-piece DIY orchestra (with a loose line up of ace musicians coming and going) is led by Karl Jonas Winqvist who also is the label founder of Sing A Song Fighter and a producer (James Yorkston, the Senegalese acts Wau Wau Collectif and Assiko Golden Band De Grand Yoff, Vumbi Dekula's 'Congo Guitar' and many more..).