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ED KUEPPER WITH JIM WHITE Announce album After the Flood

Ed Kuepper (The Saints) and Jim White (Dirty Three) today announce collaborative album After the Flood. The two titans of Australian music have produced a goldmine of reimagined Ed Kuepper originals taken from his illustrious career. After the Flood will be released March 21 via Remote Control Records. Shortly after the record's release, Ed Kuepper will tour Australia solo for the first time in five years, playing 15 dates across April and May. 



The first glimpse into this world is 'The Crying Dance', a Laughing Clowns track originally released in 1982 on the 7” EP Sometimes, The Fire Dance. The drum heavy first single maintains the menacing beat of its former self but has been rewired into a slicker, more intricate rendition.



The intention for the pairing was to play a few casual shows together in 2020, but the onset of Covid and a turbulent touring schedule saw them perform two sold out nights at the Sydney Opera House and fluke the only gig at Rising before the Melbourne festival was cancelled. From this chaos, a bond was forged that sent them into the studio.


  


“We took what Jim and I had been doing live and brought it into the studio. It was important that we captured the immediacy of what we’d been doing, that it wasn’t laboured over. Everything was laid down live," said Ed Kuepper. The resulting album is After the Flood which Ed referred to as “The broadest representation of what we did, with the most variety."



The widescreen selection of songs gives a tracking shot of Ed’s career to date. The earliest song reimagined here is The Saint’s Swing For The Crime’, which originally appeared in 1978 on the Prehistoric Sounds album. Ed’s early 80's band Laughing Clowns is represented and rewired with the songs ‘The Crying Dance’, ‘The Year Of The Bloated Goat’ and ‘Collapse Board’. His solo career is deeply mined for reworked hidden gems; ‘Demolition’ and ‘Miracles’ (both from 2007’s Jean Lee & The Yellow Dog) and ‘The Ruins’ (from 2015’s Lost Cities). ‘The 16 Days’ originally appeared on Ed’s second album under his own name, Rooms of the Magnificent in 1986.



Many of Ed’s long out of print albums have been reissued, his work with The Saints has been released globally as a deluxe boxed set. There has been touring with original Saints drummer Ivor Hay, Mick Harvey (Birthday Party/Bad Seeds), Mark Arm (Mudhoney) and Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys) joining Ed on the road. Jim White remains as prodigious as ever, releasing his debut solo album, rekindling Dirty Three for their biggest Australian tour and highest charting album. Creatively restless as ever he has recently worked with The Hard Quartet, Marisa Anderson, Bill Callahan, Myriam Gendron and Xylouris White.

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