In the near future I'm going to Perth for a production of that play I mentioned before. We did that all along. Nyalgodi Scotty Martin Because the music was evolving/devolving one way, like getting simpler and simpler, from having like four chords on average to songs that didn't have a chord change, and that would be a dis-chord anyway, that the rhythms got more overt and important. It was getting too dangerous for me! Copy and paste from Wikipedia: using minimalist lo-fi approaches to recording a basic trio: recording the band live with microphones around the studio capturing the entire sound rather than one instrument per track.
Kim Salmon’s drawcard has always been his obsession with swampy, heavily distorted sludge. PSF: What influenced the constant re-invention of the Scientists sound? Say you're a guitar player - I mean they should put that on your passport or whatever. PSF: What prompted your departure from the Beasts? (Phil Kakulas, The Melbourne Review, August 2012), File Downloads The same reverant stillness swept over the crowd as Kim played the Beasts of Bourbon hit Cool Fire. And then the music kind of changed. (laughs).

Relocating didn't really fix things up for our drummer at the time. The main thing about it, is that it's just pure music, and it's pure music for a reason, other than itself. Track to know when Salmon is playing near you. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. But anyway that afternoon I thought 'fuck hanging out with these toughs, fuck them' - fuck honour amongst thieves, and any of that bullshit. If it influences me, I absorb those influences by osmosis, rather than consciously try to go in the direction of Morricone or something like that.

It was an acoustic steel string thing. Russell Morris PSF: Its interesting in retrospect because Human Jukebox sits up there with that seminal late '80's noise-guitar sound, like Sonic Youth for instance.. Dave Graney, but he's a mate of mine! Australian Hillbilly Radio Hits Julie Wilson I don't know. Us fans were lost, starry-eyed, in a  whirlwind of reverie as radio-friendly Come on Spring, Saving Me from Me, Things Have Changed Little Girl were strummed ever so softly. This Show Is About People, Rouseabout Records I mean its like what Iggy Pop said in this book I read 'there seems to be this discrepancy between playing badass music and actually being a badass!' Roger Knox (Jeff Apter, Rolling Stone), “An awesome foursome - Antenna is made up of a bizarre assortment of musicians who created an album full of surprises. I think originally the Beasts had a good sense of irony. Kim Salmon & The Surrealists Album Launch - sun 11 oct 2020, 7:00pm AEST.

It means a particular formula to me. So we went into this sort of Flamin' Groovies trip back there in Perth. (FHM), “Quite Brill.” Gordon Lightfoot (Bernard Zuel, SMH), “Great this track is available digitally now.” Antenna is an electronic duo consisting of Erik Ruud and Jo Bakke from Norway: In 2002, they released and Ep called Round About Midnite that was released under Guidance Recordings. I mean I was out there long before that - I was certainly - I thought 'this was dangerous, I'm outta here!' They were like a magnet for a bit of a scene to start.. PSF: In the early days what were the Scientists trying to do? And it wasn't just him, it was the other guys, like the non-writing part of the band. We didn't go with them after that! Overview; Releases; Recordings; Works; Events; Relationships; Aliases; Tags; Details; Edit; Works. With The Scientists, Beasts Of Bourbon, Kim Salmon and The Surrealists, STM, The Darling Downs, Antenna, SALMON and simply solo, Kim Salmon has found a slightly or even wildly different audience at each juncture. It had a real guitar thing, like what you can do with an electric guitar. The change probably mirrors what's gone on in the rest of the world. (I talked about a fucked up Cat Power interview I once did, which went on to the indie/folk connection). Only because the beat's where it's at!

Shallow pleasures beckon me Could you tell me about them? You just gotta adapt. (laughs). I very much like the music he's doing. (Dino Scatena, The Daily Telegraph, 5 star review), Installation is a dizzying cut ‘n’ paste of heady beats, breezy pop, rave-ready pieces and wicked dub. PSF: Your most recent album You gotta let me do my thing was mixed by the legendary Jim Dickinson (Rolling Stones, Big Star, JSBX), what was it like working with the man? Florence Austral You don't have to be that thing you create. The band released the album Rock Formations in May, 2007. That's just me and a guitar for three weeks throughout October. We thought we could venture out into the suburbs and go the way of bands like the Hoodoo Gurus and Died Pretty -I personally wish we had done that - or we could have gone to England and started afresh, which was what we ending up doing! I won't mess around with all the crappy stuff in its infant stage at the moment. Tex Morton and Sister Dorrie

Straight after that I'm going on a solo tour of Europe. PSF: Who are some of your favorite local/international bands/performers today? Johnny Ashcroft For them you had to go out and BE that person. So I'd be reading a book, keeping myself in a constant state of distractedness, and that would enable me to occasionally tune in and hear the music with as fresh ears as I possibly could. PSF: What about technology? But I guess you know I was becoming older and wiser and had been listening to a lot more music, and wanted to experiment a lot more with this band. I've turned 180 degrees from the punk thing.

But Antenna the name was something I had lying around for some theme music for a TV show! Marcus Holden Faulkner also brought a critical eye to the writing and recording overall. Southend His ‘Mamas and Papas’ style backing vocals provide one of the song’s strongest hooks and his elegant string arrangement serves as an important foil to McCarthy and Frew’s sequencers and samplers. Robyn Archer You should have an appreciation of the history, or at least aspire to it.

There's a lot of things I like. You can actually be more skilled and entertain more people, you know?

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From doing hoity-toity soundtrack work for high-brow theatre troupes, to the techno-pop project Antenna, Salmon is out there painting a canvass that becomes more essential and interesting with age. What actually happened was this guy actually said somebody else was a fuckin' wanker, who was this Begby from Trainspotting type of character, the sort of character that's such a psycho that everybody wants to be his friend because they're too scared to otherwise! I mean its a bizarre situation where your drummer's writing lyrics, and he's tone deaf! The Lovetones To pull a crowd you had to play twelve bar and be into this kind of Muddy Waters trip. I hadn't even thought about lo-fi. Down By The Billabong 2 more photos, Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Warren Fahey's Diggers, Australian Radio Serials For Salmon, who was used to working more freely, it was a useful lesson. I wasn't very good at it! Warren Fahey & Max Cullen (DEAD MEN TALKING), Before the Boomerang Came Back I was learning about what I was most comfortable with in songwriting, I was not really putting myself personally into it in the way of like diary entries. I think being unprofessional is lauded, and I use to laud it myself and think it was great. I went down to K-Mart and bought this guitar for 14 bucks.
Come On Spring is something of a lost gem. To meet him, he's a cross between some kind of hell-bent redneck and a professor!