Salon Kingsadore's third and latest full-length release, Mountain Rescue, features the classic line-up of Fender Rhodes/Hammond organ (Billy Squire), electric guitar (Gianmarco Liguori), bass (Hayden Sinclair) and drums (Steven Tait) with the addition of some freaky saxophone and flute from ex-Small Faces/Four Tops/Nucleus instrumentalist Brian Smith and additional brass from Edwina Thorne.

The album starts off full-speed with ‘Jump Cut’ where it’s business as usual, SK dishing out more of their distinctive brand of psychedelic surf-jazz. There’s a revisit of The Lost Chord from their first album, but by the time we get to the Iron Curtain of ‘Project Wolf’ halfway through the album, things start getting weird. The brief, but frantic free jazz workout ‘High Orbit Catastrophe’ sounds just like its title, with Brian Smith delivering scorching waves of sound on tenor sax, yet ‘Mood Lightening’ features the same man delivering a delicate, haunting performance on flute reminiscent of 60s English folk-rock.

Mountain Rescue makes use of live and unpolished improvised rehearsal jams like the epic ‘Floating on the Nile’ with Edwina Thorne’s hypnotic trumpet narration and a snappy first attempt at ‘Scuba Tank, Spear Gun, Explosion’. While rough edges are exposed in places, Salon Kingsadore’s special chemistry is at work here, taking the listener to strange and unexpected places possibly more than any of their other albums.

Salon Kingsadore will be performing around New Zealand in 2010 to promote their latest release before heading to Hawaii later in the year.

Discography

Capucci Tapes (CDEP Sarang Bang Records) 2001
Flaming Morricone (CDEP Sarang Bang Records) 2002
Salon Kingsadore (CD album Sarang Bang Records) 2004
Hotel Azteca (CD album Sarang Bang Records) 2006
Mountain Rescue (CD album Sarang Bang Records) 2010

Compilations

The Hill Is Alive (Arch Hill)
Head For The Hill (Arch Hill)

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