THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Ed Kuepper (The Saints) and Jim White (Dirty Three) — two titans of Australian music — have joined forces on After The Flood, a goldmine of reimagined Kuepper originals from his illustrious career.
The pair originally intended to play a few casual shows together in 2020, but the onset of the pandemic and a turbulent touring schedule saw them perform two sold-out nights at the Sydney Opera House and fluke their way into 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,” Kuepper says. “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.” The resulting album is “the broadest representation of what we did, with the most variety.”
