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    Kim Salmon and the Surrealists always salvaged their performances out of adversity – be it no money, no time, distance, and now the COVID Era!
    Rantings From The Book Of Swamp is their 8th album and the MO is still the same - deconstruction and salvage.

    The band began in Perth 1987 deconstructing tunes like Blue Velvet, Je’taime Moi Non Plus and playing their own off kilter music with its bizarre time signatures and titles like ‘A Belly Full Of Slugs’, ‘Intense’ and ‘Bad Birth’. They managed to record 3 albums with little or no rehearsal in the 3 following years winding up in Melbourne where they now reside.
    Continuing their MO to lesser or greater degrees this 3 piece toured Europe, USA, New Zealand and Australia supporting such luminaries as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Rollins Band, The Cramps, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and even U2. In other words, they were a ‘band’s band’.
    They recorded their most widely acclaimed album ‘Sin Factory’ in 1992 with genius producer Tony Cohen and their wildest tour de force of styles ‘Ya Gotta Let Me Do My Thing’ in 1996 with ‘blues’punk’ folk’ anarchist legend Jim Dickinson in Memphis.

    Till now their most recent album has been 2007’s space, psych, jazz freeform freak out ‘Grand Unifying Theory’.

    The band has something of a lineage but has settled at Kim, Phil Collings and Stu Thomas - the lineup on that last album.

    Having always had more than a fair amount of improvisational content in their material, it was only ever a step away to take the plunge and make up a whole album out of nothing other than what the 3 of them could bring to a recording session.

    The idea to have an improvised show before an audience with the purpose of recording it happened at the start of the year before any COVID lockdown.
    The event was to be called Rantings From The Book Of Swamp.

    Things quickly changed with Lockdown and the initial show at a venue cancelled.
    Kim was approached by Semiconductor media and after a mooted event and by June the ante had been infinitely upped to the performance being livestreamed and made accessible worldwide.

    For lyrical content Kim referred to his sketchbooks, all entitled various volumes of “The Book Of Swamp’ with the intention of fitting various sketched lyrics as vocals with whatever the band came up with musically – hence the title of the show.
    This resultant material has coalesced into a brand new double album from Kim Salmon and the Surrealists for and of the COVID Era –
    Rantings From The Book Of Swamp.

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The latest Kim Salmon and the Surrealists digitally released single ‘Burn Down The Plantation’ and its accompanying video gives a glimpse into the creative process at the moment of conception. Before the recording it was just some lines scrawled in Kim’s notebook back in February, a rough tune in his head and a vague idea of a simple ‘rocking’ chord pattern for his guitar. At the time of writing the words suggested the US’s dark history with slave ghosts running rampant to change it but they were really just abstract words open to interpretation. By June 13 and 14 when the Surrealists did their live improvisational stream, the entire USA was protesting in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police, in fact the whole world has been in the grip of the Black Lives Matter campaign. History is hopefully changing! It’s now almost impossible to imagine that this song isn’t referring to what’s been happening.
The reality was that on June 14 bassist and drummer Stu and Phil only had a vague notion of how this idea might play out having jammed it on the previous day’s stream! What you can hear on this song is the 3 players making it up on the spot! Before this it didn’t really exist!
The band, are aware that 3 white guys singing about Black history be taken the wrong way so to make their intensions clear they will donate all the proceeds of their single to Stop Black Deaths In Custody.
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Kim Salmon Melbourne, Australia

Kim Salmon is an Australian musician and songwriter.

Kim Salmon's most enduring legacy, and not one that he particularly tried for, will no doubt be that many blame him, or at least his band The Scientists, for 'grunge'.

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