Robin Guthrie + Mark Gardener

[Adam]

Ride front man Mark Gardener and Robin Guthrie from Cocteau Twins have announced that they will collaborate on a single called The Places We Go, with a release date planned for July 2012. We don’t have any further information on this collaboration, and are not yet sure if it will lead to a full length album. We will stay on top of this story and bring you updates and song samples as soon as they become available.

(strangewaysradio)

Interview with Gardener, january 2012:

Whatever happened to your plans to record an album with Robin Guthrie from Cocteau Twins?

I’m not really sure. I haven’t really spoken to Robin for a while. I know he got a bit ill for a little period but I think he’s okay now. It’s the same thing again; he’s been really busy producing and mixing for people, I have been too, and when you’re trying to keep your head above water, you tend to just keep doing that. If we’d have got a bit of funding then I think it would have happened, but we’d both be looking for downtime to do it and it didn’t really materialise in the end as we both ended up really busy with production stuff.

I’d certainly like to release the one track that we did do together at some point, and I was trying to pool together the various collaborations that I’ve done with people over the years; I’ve got an album’s worth of that stuff, and you can see what that is if you go onto my site, but not many people have heard a lot of it and I think some of it’s really interesting. The song with Robin would have been one of those things, and now we’ve done this interview I must give him a call!

Rocksucker will be taking all the credit if an album ever does materialise!

This is the year we should do it! I really love Robin, he’s a great guy to work with. He lived in northern France while I was over there – I think he’s still living there – and he’s got his own studio set up, like I have here. I was always a big Cocteau Twins fan so he was a great guy to work and deal with, and I’ve got a lot of time for him. It’s funny, he’s kind of got a whole ‘sound’ around him; a lot of synths these days have a ‘Guthrie’ preset [as one of the sounds], guitars that sort of float off into wherever. It’s the stuff of legend!

[andylama]

Gotta love that last paragraph.

(searching my Yamaha Motif keyboard for the Guthrie presets)

[Adam]

single will be released digitally on July 9th 2012 on Soleil Après Minuit via all good download services