For this track premiere, we’re introducing a cut, “Green Spa (Cold Region Version),” by Japanese avant stoner doom trio, Hylko, which is their contribution to a split single with Norwegian noiseniks, Barren Womb. Hylko bring a truly unusual musical orientation—Nori Shio (bass), TofuckG (drums), Moock (vocals/djembe)—to the split, though sonically you might not really notice the lack of guitar, as Shio plays a thick, distorted five-string bass and Moock’s djembe (an African hand drum) is only really used to color the psychedelic track (complete with watery sound effects replicating the sounds of a hot spring, apprently). It’s five-plus minutes of mesmirizing fuzzed out sonic sludge with indecipherable lyrics—could be Japanese, could be English, we have no idea.
The track was produced and recorded by Yukito Okazaki (Eternal Elysium) at Studio Zen. It’s set for release digitally via Fucking North Pole Records and Captured Records on March 20. Place your presave here.
Bassist Nori Shio had this to say about Hyklo’s contribution to the split single:
“This groovy and heavy riff, using the lowest notes of the five-string bass, is about a journey to a hot spring in search of the truth. This is one of our most recent representative songs, where our djembe player, Moock, now also sings, giving us a richer sound. As this is a split with a band from the frigid land of Norway, our track is a cold-climate version, and engineer Yukito Okazaki (Eternal Elysium) has added sound effects of Japanese hot springs.”
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