Forty years after the release of one of the greatest Australian debut albums of all time – (I’m) Stranded – Ed Kuepper returns with a brand-new band and a brand new contender for the title: The Aints! The Church of Simultaneous Existence.
Made up from songs, musical elements and bits and prices that Sir Ed wrote from when he began high school in 1969 and started seriously fantasising about being in a band through to the Saints implosion in 1978 and arranged by The Aints! over 2017-2018, The Church of Simultaneous Existence is an album 40 years in the making. From the glorious slash and burn of Stranded-era track SOS ’75 via the horn-driven Red Aces (the mooted follow up to 1977s classic 7″ Know Your Product) to Winters Way, recorded and released originally by the Laughing Clowns for their 1984 swan song LP Ghosts Of An Ideal Wife but written in 1975 and presented here closer to it’s original form.
”Things had started to move fairly quickly once The Saints recorded [I’m] Stranded (Fatal Records) in mid ’76. We recorded three albums over the next two years as well as doing a fair it of touring, and for a while things were looking very promising, however, business problems, compounded by personal and artistic differences meant the band didn’t get around to recording all the material I had lying around….so forty [very] odd years later it occurred to me that these songs might well have made up a hypothetical 4th album….The Church of the Simultaneous Existence…..the songs that refused to die….performed in much the way they would have had the band not split up in 1978” – Ed Kuepper
To celebrate this monumental release The Aints! will hit the road for an extensive national tour performing all your new faves from tracks from The Aints! plus a treasure trove of classics from The Saints (’73 -’78). Tickets on-sale Friday August 24th via feelpresents.com
The Church of Simultaneous Existence will be released September 21st on vinyl, CD and all digital services. The limited 2CD & vinyl releases will also include a bonus album The Church of Simultaneous Instrumentals. Watch the EPK here.
Produced by Ed Kuepper. Co-Produced by Peter Oxley and Tim Pittman.
Recorded at Electric Avenue Studios, Sydney. Engineered and mixed by Phil Punch.
Album Out Globally Friday September 21st, 2018 through ABC Music.
TRACKLIST
Red Aces
The Church of Simultaneous Existence
You’ll Always Walk Alone
You Got the Answer
Country Song in G
Elevator (A Song For Barking Lord Jeff)
This Is Our Summer
Winter’s Way
S-O-S ’75
Demo Girl Part 2
Good Night Ladies (I Hear A Sound Without)
The Rise And Falls Of James Hoopnoch Eefil
THE AINTS! Australian Tour 2018
Friday 26th October Coolangatta Hotel Coolangatta QLD
Saturday 27th October The Triffid Brisbane QLD
Friday 2nd November Caravana Music Club Melbourne VIC
Saturday 3rd November Theatre Royal Castlemaine VIC
Monday 5th November The Croxton Melbourne VIC
Friday 9th November The Factory Sydney NSW
Saturday 10th November The Cambridge Newcastle NSW
Friday 23rd November Rosemount Hotel Perth WA
Saturday 24th November Settlers Tavern Margaret River WASunday 25th November Mojos Fremantle WA
Also appearing at: Dec 7 & 8 & 9 Meredith Music Festival Meredith VIC
