| Forest Bathing | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | A Hawk and a Hacksaw |
| Cover: | Forestbathing AHAAHS.jpg |
| Released: | April 13, 2018 |
| Recorded: | 2017–18 |
| Genre: | Folk |
| Length: | 33:33 |
| Label: | L.M. Dupli-cation |
| Producer: | Jeremy Barnes[1] |
| Prev Title: | You Have Already Gone to the Other World |
| Prev Year: | 2013 |
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]
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 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]