Kim Salmon And The Surrealists - Je t' aime

Salmon's other card was a new band of his own, Kim Salmon and The Surrealists. This band was a three piece, with Tony Pola on drums and Brian Hooper on bass. They released their first lp in late 1988. Entitled Hit Me With The Surreal Feel, it features hysterically funny pictures of Salmon's face with his eyeballs replaced by fish eyes. The recording took place in a rehearsal studio using only a four track recorder and as a result is fairly primitive sounding -- very echo-y. The studio time cost a total of sixty dollars and Kim obtained the multi-track master tapes by the expedient of asking for them as a birthday gift from his wife and parents.

The music is less non-traditional rhythmically than the Scientists, but it's still not your standard rock workout by a long shot. The jazzy title track is split into four pieces that separate the record into three parts. There's an odd song called "Torture" that with different instrumentation could have been a late 60s bubblegum hit. Follow that up with the 50s rock sound of "Devil In Disguise", tack on a version of "Blue Velvet", and you have a very interesting record.

February of 1990 saw the release of a second album with the Surrealists, entitled Just Because You Can't See It...Doesn't Mean It Isn't There. In marked contrast to Hit Me With The Surreal Feel, this album has full and professional sounding production, and it's also got some of the most accessible songs Salmon had recorded since the Perth lineup of the Scientists (it also has its share of tracks where royalties from radio play are not an issue). "Melt" is a funky tune driven by a mercilessly frantic bassline. "Sundown, Sundown" has a feel much like the Scientists' take of "You Only Live Twice". "Sunday Drive" harks back to the Scientists' rhythmic tricks...with a three note guitar lick running for the duration while the drums are playing 4 beats per measure, you're left feeling like you've been patting your head and rubbing your stomach a little too long. "Je T'aime" starts like a re-make of the Troggs "Wild Thing" and then pulls into a strange but entertaining sort of ambient rock song with lots of heavy breathing. "You're Gonna Die" has a boogie rock rhythmic backing that would make Black Oak Arkansas proud. But that brief visual is quickly overcome by Salmon's scrawling guitar leads and his alarmingly sincere screams of the song's title.
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