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Yola is available in "Super Audio" format compatible with SACD and CD players. Eleanor explains what Yola means : "the journey brought us to South Wexford, a strange, flat, uncompromising landscape of often high winds and driving rain, and sometimes, huge and beautiful skies. A land cut off by ocean, sea and for centuries by culture. So isolated for so long, that from the time of early invasion, it kept and developed its own dialect, a tangent of old and middle English mixed with anglicised Irish. This dialect, now extinct apart from a few words still in use, was called Yola." ?Yola? (Market Square; MSMSACD113) was produced by Eleanor and her pianist Brian Connor with co writing credits going to Lloyd Cole and Henry Priestman (The Christians). An album of songs that are allowed to fend for themselves with a musical but uncluttered background brought about by the stylish playing of Liam Bradley on percussion, Eoghan O'Neil on bass and Brian Connor on piano. In January, Eleanor had her first child ? Sara Jane. In March, she visited the UK for a week to undertake live and recorded interview for BBC national and regional radio. Eleanor is undertaking select dates in the UK in June accompanied by Brian Connor.