Kimono Kult streams debut EP 'Hiding In The Light' [LISTEN]

As previously reported, former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and ex-Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López along with Bosnian Rainbows' Teri Gender Bender and Swahili Blonde drummer Nicole Turley have formed a new supergroup sextet called Kimono Kult featuring instrumentals from Dante White and Laena Geronimo. The Los Angeles-based collective releases their debut EP, Hiding In The Light, today via Neurotic Yell Record and are streaming the four-track effort in full.

Tuley, who also operates the EP's issuing label, produced the experimental album, which is described as "four songs of electro/dub/afro-beat/avant-freak/jazz-like conversations of instrumental ecstasy," and is sung almost entirely in Spanish. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gender Bender explained the group's language choice.

"The Spanish language is so beautiful that it has the right to be approached in any way possible," Gender Bender told them. "There is so much left to explore -- pronunciation, etc. Because Spanish-speaking singers are strict with so many unspoken rules, I approached my mother language as if I were an alien from outer space. That was the mindset."

"Kimono Kult approaches the music in a completely original way, allowing for the imagination to flow," she continued. "The lyric to 'Todo Menos el Dolor' is for the listener's imagination. Spanish speaking or not, it goes way beyond language and [is] more about atmosphere. To me it could be a story about an alien that wanted to eat cats but it caused the critter so much pain [that] he became a vegetarian. Every interpretation is valid."

Stream the full EP below, and let us know what you think in the comments section.

Hiding In The Light Tracklist:
01. Todos Menos El Dolor
02. Las Esposas
03. La Vida Es Una Caja Hermosa
04. La Cancion De Alejandra