Springsong’ is the 4st and final chapter of Hostsonaten’s ‘Seasoncycle Suite’ ad has been originally published by Sublime Label in 2001. The original Cd is out of print by a few years and now AMS records have decided not only to reissue it but to realize a brand new album only in little part based on the old version.
Starting by the ‘exterior’ aspect we find a wonderful new graphic work completely different form the previous one, in line with the ‘Seasons project’ and with excellent paintings by Davide Guidoni. All in a gatefold LP-replica box with a deluxe booklet with new credists, informations, images and details.
Musically speaking, the 2001 work has been completely reworked. The album has been remixed in high definition quality, every single track has been cleaned and re-equalized to give a new and strong dynamics to the music, now more powerful and trenchant.
Fabio Zuffanti and Robbo Vigo, the authors of this restyling, have also gave light to a great number of new musical details and, most important thing, have played a lot of new musical parts absent in the old version:
– New mellotron parts played with a real mellotron (the old parts were played with samplers)
– New bass parts in the whole album
– New moog, bass pedals and percussion parts
– 13 minutes bonus track (Suite bretonne), acoustic suite, the track from which Springsong wasborn.
To make a long story short, it