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ASTEROID EKOSYSTEM - SOUNDS HAVE DREAMS
The brainchild of avant composer, pianist, and ARIA Award winner Alister Spence, Asteroid Ekosystem brings together an extraordinary ensemble: guitarist and musical pioneer Ed Kuepper, improvisational upright bassist Lloyd Swanton (The Necks), and drummer Toby Hall (The Catholics / Mike Nock)
Featuring twelve original compositions recorded by the band in two days at Rancom St Studios, Sydney in April, 2025. Sounds Have Dreams meshes together Ed’s exploratory, free-flowing, highly coloured guitar brilliance, with acoustic piano, double bass, and drums, sometimes played in unusual and mysterious ways. Alister Spence explains the process:
"In August 2024 I recorded Ed playing electric guitar solo in Brisbane, with the help of sound engineer Derek Bovill. I took sounds and musical phrases that Ed played on the Brisbane session and composed pieces and ideas for improvisation that we could explore as a band. These were recorded by Asteroid Ekosystem in Sydney in April 2025. On the album Ed’s first session guitar recordings have been added to provide introductions, backgrounds, and loops, for all pieces on the album except ‘Open To.’ Most of these we played along to while we were recording. Rock, psychedelia, improvisation, jazz, blend together to form a unique sound that can only be Asteroid Ekosystem!"
"It's not jazz, it's not rock…Whatever you want to call it, this is one mighty sonic trip that paints colourful pictures in the mind.” - Noel Mengel
‘What is jazz, what is rock, …, the jingling, crashing brainstorming is LSD-colorful. … Set the controls for the heart of the sun.’ - Rigo Dittmann, Bad Alchemy (GDR).
Ed Kuepper and his pal Jim White (Dirty Three / The Hard Quartet / The Double) have announced a 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 Australia and 12XU Records USA.
The widescreen selection of songs gives a tracking shot of Ed’s career to date. The earliest song reimagined here is The Saints 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.
“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."
"Kuepper's purple patch of the first half of the 1990s is something extraordinary, and Black Ticket Day (1992) is a jewel in his crown. It's as expansive as its predecessor Honey Steel's Gold yet more electric; features pop gems "It's Lunacy" and "Real Wild Life" but also wig-outs like "Blind Girl Stripper" and "All My Ideas Run to Crime". Law of Nature (1984) is a heat-haze of an album, drawing as Kuepper has said on memories of growing up in the semi-rural suburbs of Brisbane. It manages to find a perfect fit for the experiential colours of earlier Laughing Clowns releases within a set of disciplined song-forms. A classic of Australian post-punk featuring the original recording of 'Eternally Yours.'" - John Encarnacao, author, Ed Kuepper's Honey Steel's Gold for 33 1/3.
LAUGHING CLOWNS - LAW OF NATURE
1. Monkey See Monkey Do
2. Law Of Nature
3. Eternally Yours
4. Bride of Jesus
5. Possessions
6. Eating off the Floor
7. Written in Exile
8. As Your Bridges Burn
9. Behind You
10. The Year is More
11. Important
12. Stinking to High Heaven
Released on March 29th and available for pre-order now, Black Ticket Day and Law Of Nature join recent reissued solo efforts; 1996’s Frontierland, the previously unreleased experiential, 1991’s much-celebrated Honey Steels Gold and the 1984 debut Electrical Storm as a part of Kueppers collaboration with Melbourne’s Remote Control records.
ED KUEPPER - BLACK TICKET DAY
1. It’s Lunacy
2. Blind Girl Stripper
3. Real Wild Life
4. All My Ideas Run to Crime
5. Black Ticket Day
6. Helps Me Understand
7. There’s Nothing Natural
8. Walked Thin Lines
Following the acclaimed reissue earlier in the year of the classic albums Honey Steel’s Gold and Electrical Storm, and hot on the heels of a sellout national tour, Ed Kuepper unveils two further releases from his extensive archive - Frontierland and Mister MiraKle.
Frontierland was originally released in Australia, the USA and Britain during Kuepper's very prolific 90's period. Frontierland is an expansive and at times highly experimental pop album. It’s a broad ranging work, with a sweeping sound palette that includes horns, mandolin, mellotron, chromatic harmonica, loops and samples, violin, drums and octopad, alongside Ed’s unmistakable guitar and vocals. Allmusic acclaimed it as a work that singled Kuepper out as “one of the most valuable, idiosyncratic rock artists of the late 20th century.” In agreement, Frontierland was nominated for Best Independent Release at the ARIA Music Awards in 1997.
This is the first time Frontierland has been made available on vinyl. The original artwork has been reimaged and the newly remastered LP comes on a choice of black or opaque blue vinyl, in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
Ed Kuepper - Frontierland
1. All of These Things
2. Fireman Joe
3. The Weepin' Willow
4. How Would You Plead?
5. M.D.D.P. Limited
6. Pushin' Fear II
7. Rough Neck Blues
8. Someone Told Me
9. Poor Howard
Simultaneously, Kuepper releases his ‘lost album’, Mister MiraKle for the first time. The album was recorded shortly after Frontierland and intended as a mail-order companion to the, intended Frontierland tour. However it was inexplicably shelved at the time and has been unavailable until now. The infamous Mister MiraKle will prove to be the missing link between Kuepper's solo and band work.
The perfect companion to Frontierland. The album has been mastered from the original analogue tapes for all formats, with the LP available on black and limited-edition orange vinyl. Both albums are available for the first time on streaming services.
Ed Kuepper - Mister MiraKle
1. Rainy Knights
2. When She’s Down
3. Poor Howard’s Dead and Gone
4. Salty Sea Air
5. Highway to Hell Pt. 2 / We Will Fall (stars on 78i medly)
6. Mysterious Wind
7. Weepin’ Willow
8. Liddle Fiddle
9. Fireman Joe
10. Sleepy Head
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THE SAINTS
(I'M) STRANDED 7" VINYL RE-ISSUE
SOLD-OUT!
But wait, there’s more; in addition to the single reissue comes the first ever official merch line from the original line-up of The Saints. Three designs across two t-shirts and a hoodie open the collection and feature Ed Kuepper’s original hand-painted logo, the Fatal label 7” design and the rear sleeve graphic of Savage Pencil as featured on the 7” UK release (I’m) Stranded.
Available in all sizes and all cuts the collection will also be made available locally in the UK via Wax Face Toys, in the USA via In The Red Records and in Australia via Artist First.
