Forest Bathing is the seventh studio album by A Hawk and a Hacksaw. It was released April 13, 2018.[2] Prior to its release, the song "A Broken Road Lined With Poplar Trees" premiered on Under the Radar's website.[3]

Forest Bathing
Studio album by A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Released	April 13, 2018
Recorded	2017-18
Genre	Folk
Length	33:33
Label	L.M. Dupli-cation
Producer	Jeremy Barnes[1]
A Hawk and a Hacksaw chronology
You Have Already Gone to the Other World (2013) Forest Bathing (2018)

Album name and concept

The term forest bathing refers to the Japanese concept of Shinrin-yoku (森林浴), a Japanese form of nature therapy. According to L.M. Dupli-cation, "This is not an urban music. It's rural; songs of the woods and roads where there are no sidewalks or street lamps to light your way. "A Broken Road lined with Poplar Trees" describes just this- the dirt from the summer sun, a melody from home on my tongue. The song "Babayaga" by Trost, is a tribute to the archetypal crone Babayaga, who sticks out her cane just as a child runs by... And "The Washing Bear" is a classic brass romp, connecting Serbian brass with it's [sic] Southern brothers in Albania and Turkey..."[2]

The band cites the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico as "their forest bath of choice."[4]

Track listing

Personnel

• Jeremy Barnes - composition, Persian santur
• Heather Trost - composition, strings and woodwind
• Cüneyt Sepetçi - clarinet
• Unger Balász - cimbalom
• Sam Johnson - trumpet
• John Dieterich (from Deerhoof)
• Noah Martinez (from local New Mexican band, Lone Piñon)

References