Yorick van Norden - Playing By Ear

The LP is coming, but due to the waiting times at the factory (6 months!) it will not be available until April 8, 2022. However, it is a good idea for those interested to reserve a copy at your local record store, because the record will be released in a limited numbered edition of only 500 copies in the color Yellow Flame! In addition, we can offer a special 'package deal'. Those who pre-order the LP now can already receive my 2022 tear-off calendar as a sweetener for a small additional charge. Tear-off calendar?! Yes, you heard it right. Text and explanation in the press release below:

While the first generation of pop professors is getting more and more calendar and grey, a new laureate is presenting himself in the firmament. A young, fresh, singing, playing and writing connoisseur of pop history. His name: Yorick van Norden. In recent years he has regularly appeared on radio and TV programmes to talk about pop music. Especially for this tear-off calendar he has collected a collection of interesting, hilarious and at times moving facts from more than half a century of pop history.

Yorick van Norden shows a new and contemporary sound on his new album Playing By Ear , which will be released on November 12th by Excelsior Recordings. For the first time, Yorick combines his sixties and seventies sense of melody with the magnification of the Britpop from his youth in the nineties and zeroes. The guitar sound and the 'pamphleteering' in the lyrics originate from the post-punk of the early eighties and the alien sound carpets of sound magician Tom Broshuis (ex-Mister and Mississippi) undeniably take us to the present. That is what Playing By Ear has become, his third solo album, which is characterized by much more personal lyrics and a different, fresh and timeless sound.