New Release From Salmonella Dub

MEDIA RELEASE                                                                                                                                                                               Monday 3rd September

SALMONELLA DUB

‘Heal Me’

Virgin Music announce the release of Salmonella Dub’s new album Heal Me, released today.
 
Heal Me was recorded in the band’s self-built Hapuku studio in Kaikoura over 2006 and 2007, and was produced and co-arranged by David Harrow in his Workhouse studio in Los Angeles. David Harrow, famous for his production work with Adrian Sherwood's ONU Sound label has previously worked with Salmonella Dub on their THC Winter, Calming of the Drunken Monkey and Killervision releases.
 
Heal Me is an 11-track vocally lush, musically seamless, horn-laden, long player featuring the bands hallmark heavy rhythm section layered with familiar Salmonella Dub psychedelic colourings. Although deeply rich in dub texturing, Heal Me is different from previous Salmonella Dub releases in that it is the band’s first fully developed vocal album. Tracks like Gifts and Love Sunshine and Happiness are traditional in the bands heavy rock steady dub & reggae styles. Others like That Easy, Rong and Lightning are steeped in dub-rock, harking back to the bands roots. Nothing is Free is the heaviest of the dub tracks, while the title track Heal Me is unashamedly 80's in its funk influences.
 
The CD version of the album has been released with a limited-run premium disc containing four alternative album track mixes, plus a slide show of studio antics. The digital release of the album through iTunes comes with an exclusive version of the bands recent cover of the Stranglers track Peaches. The digital release through Vodafone contains an exclusive ambient acappella version of Nothing is Free.
  
It is four years since Salmonella Dub released their last album proper, the multi platinum selling One Drop East. Since 2003 the band have played over 300 shows across ten countries. And so it was in 2006 after an exhausting 24 date tour across Australia, the UK and Ireland that the band finally vowed to circle the wagons and put their own creativity first by hunkering down to focus on their Kaikoura studio and their next album. The first result in this creative process is their 6th album proper Heal Me.

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