October 10, 2024 • 9 mins
Salmonella Dub have just released a new album called For All Things Alive, and they're going on tour. Andrew from the band called up to chat about the locations and how Troy Kingi got involved on one of the tracks after a hail storm in Nelson.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to radio holdar Keys Off the Record podcast with Greg.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with salmonella dub cure to Andrew
you going yeah really with thanks mate? How are things
with salmonella dub these days?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Pretty good?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
At the moment.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
We've been through, like everybody some crazy toomil with the
last three or four years of ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now we're just putting a positive step forward.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, well, I'm glad you're having a positive step forward.
And what sort of things have been occurring that have
inspired you to create new music.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
There's a whole bunch of things.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
This album has been a long work in progress, and
in that process we engage with a bunch of guests focalists,
starting with Nino Birch from Beat Rhim Fashion, one of
Wellington's seminal new wave bands who are quite influential for
us back in the four years.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Of high school. And we had free Marco Black.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Coming fucking two studio the Night of Richard Nuns Is
Tunny and recorded five tracks. Of course, Richard Nuns, God
bless him, has passed away.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He was very good with traditional Marty instruments, wasn't he.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Yeah, So Richard Nunn as an honorary doctorate in Tomapra
Maori instrumentation, and I had toured with us through a
Symphony Ulstra tour with Free Marco. Black ended up on
an album called Feel of Seasons Change.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I remember that one. This a really good live album,
Oh thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
So Unfortunately, Richard Nuns ended up with Parkinson's disease and
passed away in twenty twenty one, and that was when
we reconnected with Free Marco. She came into a two
studio and recorded vocals on five tracks that evening.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That must have been quite a heavy process, having just
gone through a tonguey and then to do five tracks in.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
A row exactly quite cathartic but also uplifting away.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
He kind of felt like Richard's spirit was there with
us for that.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Likewise, that year, Troy Keey came into the studio here
in Nelson and put down the Calls with me on
the Hens and the Soil track, which is another kind
of perfection of where we're at with the album. The
album's really about reconnecting with the fucker pupper of the environment,
So put your Hands in the Soil was the last
track to be recorded for the album. For All Things
(02:16):
A live Part one eight tracks came out yesterday and
the second parts dropping on November fifth. We split it
in two because it's about two hours long, and in
the digital world, I'm not sure if people's concentration spencer
quite up for that link, so, and of course yeah,
it was. It's also been released on three twelve months vinyl,
so there's twenty two tracks on vinyl and sixteen coming
(02:38):
out digitally that are different mixes than the vinyl mixes.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Right, Okay, well that's quite a lot. And so with
this album that came out yesterday, the second track on
it is the one you were just talking about with
Troy Kingy, Well, what's the vibe like of this song?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Quite different from anything that Troy's possibly done vocals on.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
It's just essentially bass guitar drums with some trombone and background,
a floaty swamp rock thing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I guess. We caught up with them at the.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Electric Gaven New Festival earlier that year and I gave
him my switched Daddy guitar pedal, which is kind of
like an analogue delay shaped like a kettle at and said, look,
this is yours, but come come and do something for
us at some point.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So yeah, he turned up and well, let's hear the
song go up.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
This is Andrew from Salmonella dub new track few Hands
in the Soil featuring Troy Kingy here on the radio heldacing.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
So that sounds the sign it's so only way, We're
so handsome sign.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's only way.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's really a heard ich here and that is brand
new from Salmonella dub called Hands in the Soil. It
just came out and we're lucky enough to have Andrew
from Salmonella dub on a zoom from us in Nelson. Ka, Andrew,
thanks for bringing us that tune.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh Keron, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You mentioned that that was recorded a couple of years
ago when Troy Kingy came to your studio in Nelson.
There was some bad weather at the time, but you
managed to get it done. And now we've got eight
new tracks to enjoy on the new album.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah that the album's called for All Things Alive and
the history behind that. We released the first sessions of
this album on three twelve inch final called Return to
Our Call Fight. The co puber behind that is reconnecting
with the fucker pupper of the environment, but for All
Things Alive. It was a quote that came from a
book that my son gave me for Father's Day a
(04:51):
few years back, called it how to Change Your Mind.
And there's a quote from Albert Hoffman on his hundredth
birthday talking about how to connect with them environment, and
for All Things Alive was the cope Pappa behind his
speech at his hundredth birthday. So there's this threat going
through the tracks on the album, reflecting on how things
(05:12):
are connected, and of course for us Samuela dub the
environment has been a very big influential part of a
writing process.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And that goes back to what you were saying before
about your studio having to record and what did you
call it? Off the grid?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Yeah, the Hands of the Sow track was just just
because of a storm that had been through the studio
had been dismantled.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We had ended up with that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, hail bent up in the roof which then leaked
down about one hundred liters of water into the studio,
lost a couple of hard drives. So yeah, that track
was The vocal takes were done live purely because we
hadn't I hadn't put the studio back together when Troy
was coming through Nelson. You know we'd made a few
times prior. Total Gentleman. He reflected on his history and
(05:59):
hair as a teenager, he followed some of our dub
round big day out shows and up shows that we
did with Pitch Black and a young shape Shifter and
Rustle way back in a year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I think you guys have got quite their history. What's
one of your favorite shows?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Are the gathering festivals up at the top of the
Tacaka Hill in the Nelson region were always a favorite.
They had six zones running, so it was all genres
of music. We were always headlining, headlining the drum and
bass and dub zone, but there was a trance zone,
tribal zone, ambient and those festivals we had about six
(06:37):
of them. They were kind of what we cut our
teeth on, and back in the early days when seven
of our dubs started, we really had the only head
the choices playing like trance parties or Sawing Rocks Rocket.
We told what she had in the nineties and just
a little bit of history. If anyone's wondering about the
Salmonella dub name, that's something that was very tongue in
(06:58):
cheek salmonella being food poisoning, which I've had a couple
of times character building stuff, but we started out doing
amongst our own original stuff what we considered bad taste
covers and a dug reggae style, and a good one
to one case would be fred Dagg Larry Loves Barry,
which is ballad about Larry who was six given an
(07:21):
emy from his birthday. Come Christmas time, having named Zemy,
Berry decided he wanted to marry Barry. So Larry Loves
Barry was one of those sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Bad taste covers in the early days.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't know that one. I know, we don't know
how lucky we are, but I left to look at
Larry and Berry.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Don't be wary of the Big Canary. Something like that.
Not very PC now.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I do you mentioned the gathering. I remember hearing a
lot about those festivals. They were legendary back in the day,
but I never got to go to one, unfortunately. But
I have seen you guys play live several times over
the years, and we get to do that all over
again very soon.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Playing Auckland Studio this Friday, and then Butler's Brief on Saturday.
It's all Salmon Our double experience more aimed at the
dance floor to our set with visuals and full moving
light show playing all our back catalog anthems alongside remixes
from the likes of movie from Fat Foody's The Nomad.
(08:22):
And after that we head over to Australia playing Melbourne
and there we go to Brunswick Heads and then into
christ Church Hoker Ticker and then playing the aun Festival
in Auckland just before New Year. And we've got a
bunch of more shows to annow. It's starting at the
end of January. Looking to we run around Great Barrier
Island Wayhacke Island down to the This Is Living Festival
in Wellington and the meat Stock Festival in Mystery Creek.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
What it Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You are going to be busy over the next few months.
So if we want to go to the show on
k Road at the Studio in Auckland this Friday night,
or the one that Butler's Reef and the Naki this
Saturday night, beyond that, where's the best place to find
some information.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Salmonella dub dot COM's one stop shop for everything, including
on vinyl and tickets for the shows.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And we can find out about that album you just
released yesterday there as well too. Absolutely Andrew from Salmonella
dub thanks your time on hod Ache.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Thank you so much for having me Greg.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Radio head Aches Off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe
so they download automatically and don't forget to rate us
five stars?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
Welcome to radio holdar Keys Off the Record podcast with Greg.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Let's have a chat with salmonella dub cure to Andrew
you going yeah really with thanks mate? How are things
with salmonella dub these days?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Pretty good?
Speaker 4 (00:16):
At the moment.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
We've been through, like everybody some crazy toomil with the
last three or four years of ups and downs.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Now we're just putting a positive step forward.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, well, I'm glad you're having a positive step forward.
And what sort of things have been occurring that have
inspired you to create new music.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
There's a whole bunch of things.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
This album has been a long work in progress, and
in that process we engage with a bunch of guests focalists,
starting with Nino Birch from Beat Rhim Fashion, one of
Wellington's seminal new wave bands who are quite influential for
us back in the four years.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Of high school. And we had free Marco Black.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Coming fucking two studio the Night of Richard Nuns Is
Tunny and recorded five tracks. Of course, Richard Nuns, God
bless him, has passed away.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
He was very good with traditional Marty instruments, wasn't he.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Yeah, So Richard Nunn as an honorary doctorate in Tomapra
Maori instrumentation, and I had toured with us through a
Symphony Ulstra tour with Free Marco. Black ended up on
an album called Feel of Seasons Change.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So I remember that one. This a really good live album,
Oh thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
So Unfortunately, Richard Nuns ended up with Parkinson's disease and
passed away in twenty twenty one, and that was when
we reconnected with Free Marco. She came into a two
studio and recorded vocals on five tracks that evening.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
That must have been quite a heavy process, having just
gone through a tonguey and then to do five tracks in.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
A row exactly quite cathartic but also uplifting away.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
He kind of felt like Richard's spirit was there with
us for that.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Likewise, that year, Troy Keey came into the studio here
in Nelson and put down the Calls with me on
the Hens and the Soil track, which is another kind
of perfection of where we're at with the album. The
album's really about reconnecting with the fucker pupper of the environment,
So put your Hands in the Soil was the last
track to be recorded for the album. For All Things
(02:16):
A live Part one eight tracks came out yesterday and
the second parts dropping on November fifth. We split it
in two because it's about two hours long, and in
the digital world, I'm not sure if people's concentration spencer
quite up for that link, so, and of course yeah,
it was. It's also been released on three twelve months vinyl,
so there's twenty two tracks on vinyl and sixteen coming
(02:38):
out digitally that are different mixes than the vinyl mixes.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Right, Okay, well that's quite a lot. And so with
this album that came out yesterday, the second track on
it is the one you were just talking about with
Troy Kingy, Well, what's the vibe like of this song?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Quite different from anything that Troy's possibly done vocals on.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
It's just essentially bass guitar drums with some trombone and background,
a floaty swamp rock thing.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I guess. We caught up with them at the.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Electric Gaven New Festival earlier that year and I gave
him my switched Daddy guitar pedal, which is kind of
like an analogue delay shaped like a kettle at and said, look,
this is yours, but come come and do something for
us at some point.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So yeah, he turned up and well, let's hear the
song go up.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
This is Andrew from Salmonella dub new track few Hands
in the Soil featuring Troy Kingy here on the radio heldacing.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
So that sounds the sign it's so only way, We're
so handsome sign.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's only way.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's really a heard ich here and that is brand
new from Salmonella dub called Hands in the Soil. It
just came out and we're lucky enough to have Andrew
from Salmonella dub on a zoom from us in Nelson. Ka, Andrew,
thanks for bringing us that tune.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh Keron, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You mentioned that that was recorded a couple of years
ago when Troy Kingy came to your studio in Nelson.
There was some bad weather at the time, but you
managed to get it done. And now we've got eight
new tracks to enjoy on the new album.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah that the album's called for All Things Alive and
the history behind that. We released the first sessions of
this album on three twelve inch final called Return to
Our Call Fight. The co puber behind that is reconnecting
with the fucker pupper of the environment, but for All
Things Alive. It was a quote that came from a
book that my son gave me for Father's Day a
(04:51):
few years back, called it how to Change Your Mind.
And there's a quote from Albert Hoffman on his hundredth
birthday talking about how to connect with them environment, and
for All Things Alive was the cope Pappa behind his
speech at his hundredth birthday. So there's this threat going
through the tracks on the album, reflecting on how things
(05:12):
are connected, and of course for us Samuela dub the
environment has been a very big influential part of a
writing process.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And that goes back to what you were saying before
about your studio having to record and what did you
call it? Off the grid?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Yeah, the Hands of the Sow track was just just
because of a storm that had been through the studio
had been dismantled.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We had ended up with that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, hail bent up in the roof which then leaked
down about one hundred liters of water into the studio,
lost a couple of hard drives. So yeah, that track
was The vocal takes were done live purely because we
hadn't I hadn't put the studio back together when Troy
was coming through Nelson. You know we'd made a few
times prior. Total Gentleman. He reflected on his history and
(05:59):
hair as a teenager, he followed some of our dub
round big day out shows and up shows that we
did with Pitch Black and a young shape Shifter and
Rustle way back in a year two thousand.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I think you guys have got quite their history. What's
one of your favorite shows?
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Are the gathering festivals up at the top of the
Tacaka Hill in the Nelson region were always a favorite.
They had six zones running, so it was all genres
of music. We were always headlining, headlining the drum and
bass and dub zone, but there was a trance zone,
tribal zone, ambient and those festivals we had about six
(06:37):
of them. They were kind of what we cut our
teeth on, and back in the early days when seven
of our dubs started, we really had the only head
the choices playing like trance parties or Sawing Rocks Rocket.
We told what she had in the nineties and just
a little bit of history. If anyone's wondering about the
Salmonella dub name, that's something that was very tongue in
(06:58):
cheek salmonella being food poisoning, which I've had a couple
of times character building stuff, but we started out doing
amongst our own original stuff what we considered bad taste
covers and a dug reggae style, and a good one
to one case would be fred Dagg Larry Loves Barry,
which is ballad about Larry who was six given an
(07:21):
emy from his birthday. Come Christmas time, having named Zemy,
Berry decided he wanted to marry Barry. So Larry Loves
Barry was one of those sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Bad taste covers in the early days.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I don't know that one. I know, we don't know
how lucky we are, but I left to look at
Larry and Berry.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Don't be wary of the Big Canary. Something like that.
Not very PC now.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
I do you mentioned the gathering. I remember hearing a
lot about those festivals. They were legendary back in the day,
but I never got to go to one, unfortunately. But
I have seen you guys play live several times over
the years, and we get to do that all over
again very soon.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Playing Auckland Studio this Friday, and then Butler's Brief on Saturday.
It's all Salmon Our double experience more aimed at the
dance floor to our set with visuals and full moving
light show playing all our back catalog anthems alongside remixes
from the likes of movie from Fat Foody's The Nomad.
(08:22):
And after that we head over to Australia playing Melbourne
and there we go to Brunswick Heads and then into
christ Church Hoker Ticker and then playing the aun Festival
in Auckland just before New Year. And we've got a
bunch of more shows to annow. It's starting at the
end of January. Looking to we run around Great Barrier
Island Wayhacke Island down to the This Is Living Festival
in Wellington and the meat Stock Festival in Mystery Creek.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
What it Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You are going to be busy over the next few months.
So if we want to go to the show on
k Road at the Studio in Auckland this Friday night,
or the one that Butler's Reef and the Naki this
Saturday night, beyond that, where's the best place to find
some information.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Salmonella dub dot COM's one stop shop for everything, including
on vinyl and tickets for the shows.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And we can find out about that album you just
released yesterday there as well too. Absolutely Andrew from Salmonella
dub thanks your time on hod Ache.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Thank you so much for having me Greg.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Radio head Aches Off the Record podcast. Why not subscribe
so they download automatically and don't forget to rate us
five stars?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Thanks mate.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Find out more about this podcast and the people who
make it at hodache dot co dot nz.
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