Springtime is the fourth of Robin Guthrie's recent releases, since he re-built his studio in Brittany, after the death of his friend and collaborator Harold Budd. The Ep was released to coincide with Robin's 60th Birthday at the start of January.
This ep opens with Kino's Chance and it would seem that the chance Kino is being given is to plant all the seeds and saplings just after the last frost of winter and just as spring begins, this is gently uplifting as the central keyboard part has all sorts of uplifting sounds built around it.
The Faraway has a distant yearning at its core as you drift slowly towards some Faraway Tree and marvel at the washes of sound and brushed percussion gently caressing your ears.
Another Part Of Nowhere is like the soundtrack to the bleakest most remote landscape that's slowly moving across the screen with the odd tree or bush among the scrub land and the guitar seems to creating the gentlest of musical breezes.
All For Nothing brings a sense of the gentlest frustration that your efforts have been ignored to the stark beauty of this gentle ambient soundscape that has the gentlest build towards its own very chilled out summit.
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