YORK promoters Please Please You present a double bill of Daniel Romano and Kacy & Clayton at The Crescent in York on Sunday night.

Romano, who will be performing with his band, The Trillians, arrives in North Yorkshire two days after he releases Mosey, his daring follow-up to 2015's If I've Only One Time Askin, on the New West Records label.

Mosey was self-produced and recorded in mono by Romano throughout 2015 at his Canadian studio, The Navy, in Fenwick, Ontario. Aside from the piano, strings and horns that course through the 12 tracks, he plays every instrument, from guitar, bass and drums to organ and percussion, while also arranging the orchestration.

The vocal performances vary immensely song to song on Romano's fifth album. “He had all the songs in his head," says engineer Kenneth Roy Meehan. "He set up the drums, we mic’d them and then I rolled the tape.

"He played through the entire first pass of the record, which included something like 20 songs, without any music to reference in basically the amount of time it would take to listen to it. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Whereas If I’ve Only One Time Askin was influenced by the "countrypolitan" sound of the 1960s, Mosey takes inspiration from such trailblazers as Lee Hazlewood, Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman and Ennio Morricone. Throwing them in a sonic blender, Romano mixes Sixties' French and British pop music, psychedelic blues, Spaghetti western, Seventies' funk, honky-tonk heartache, country-soul, bar-room piano confessionals and rollicking rock'n'roll.

Romano and his band are on a two-month European tour that will take him to Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, France and Germany. Joining them on their travels are Kacy & Clayton, singer Kacy Anderson and her second cousin, guitarist Clayton Linthicum, who issued their Strange Country album last November.

Recorded over seven freezing days in February 2015 in an old community hall turned studio, Ghetto Box Studios in Saskatoon, the album is steeped in the legacy of Shirley Collins, The Watersons, Fairport Convention and Davey Graham.

Tickets for Sunday's 7.30pm gig cost £10 at pleasepleaseyou.com or £12 on the door.