Helicon announce Fuzz Club Session and share video for 'Il Bacio Di Guida'

Hear a previously unreleased Helicon track as part of their Fuzz Club Session LP, announced today and due out next month

 

Arriving off the back of this year's 'This Can Only Lead To Chaos' LP, Glasgow's Helicon are gearing up to release a Fuzz Club Session on December 18th and are today sharing the video for new song 'Il Bacio Di Guida', originally debuted during their live-streamed set for the Fuzz Club Isolation Festival earlier this year. You can stream the video below and pre-order the session on white and black vinyl here.

 

Recorded live at Dystopia Studios with their trusted producer Luigi Pasquini (Trembling Bells, The Cosmic Dead) and released on 180gm vinyl alongside a series of videos, the incoming Fuzz Club Session LP captures the band's heady psych-rock sound at its finest: a far-out amalgamation of strung-out sitars, riotous walls of fuzzy feedback and cosmic synths that's all bolstered by the live energy that the band are renowned for and has been impossible to justly capture on wax, until now.

 

Talking about 'Il Bacio...', vocalist and guitarist John-Paul Hughes said: "This is a song I wrote for the Fuzz Club Isolation Festival back in May. I thought most artists would be contributing something stripped back due to circumstances so I wanted to do the opposite and submit a new track that had all the energy and groove you'd expect from seeing us live. We're usually very collaborative so that was my first time writing and recording every part on my own as we couldn't get together. Luigi helped me out by chipping in with the lead synth part. The title is taken from the 14th Century painting by Giotto and translates as 'The Kiss Of Judas'. The Fuzz Club Live Session is the first and only performance of the track by the full band to date."

 

 

As well as new cut 'Il Bacio Di Guida', out today, the session comprises tracks from their recent full-length, 'This Can Only Lead To Chaos' – 'The Sun Also Rises', 'In The End', 'Sound of Confession' (complete with a mesmerising piano intro) and 'What You Love Will Kill You' – as well as another new song, 'Permo'. On the session itself, John-Paul says: "Was good fun teaming up with Luigi, Omar and Melanie again having worked with them at a different studio for our second album. Their new Dystopia studio in Partick, Glasgow, is in the process of being turned into a full multimedia venue. It's a cool space and you can really see the potential it has in the big live room we used to record the session."

 

He continues: "We shot the live session in one day, playing a mixture of songs from the 'Chaos' album and a couple of new, unreleased tracks: 'Il Bacio Di Giuda' and  'Permo'. Our old friend Billy Docherty (Filth Spector) joined us on bass as our usual bass player Mark couldn't commit having just become a Dad for the first time. He was still there for the session and played that haunting little piano intro in the first track and video teaser. Look closely and you can see his new baby boy's shoes on top of the piano as he's playing, next to a satanic goat head right enough so make of that what you will.

 

"Another mate of ours, Mark O'Donnell (Tomorrow Syndicate), also joined us for this performance on synths, freeing Graham up for a bit of sitar action. Harrison Reid and the Tape Rituals team did a great job capturing the mood of the music on film. Big thanks to all the guys at Dystopia, Tape Rituals and Casper and the team at Fuzz Club. We're a lucky bunch of buggers to get to make music with you all. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did."