To paradoksalne, ale są jeszcze muzycy - niezwykle zasłużeni dla rozwoju rocka - którzy znajdują się w całkowitym zapomnieniu lub cieszą się obecnie jedynie lokalną sławą. Do takich artystów należy Ed Kuepper - bezsprzecznie jeden z moich ulubionych wykonawców. Kuepper urodził się w Niemczech, ale całe swoje życie związał z Australią. W połowie lat siedemdzisiątych był liderem legendarnego punkowego zespołu The Saints. Po rozpadzie grupy stworzył nie mniej ciekawy punkowo-jazzowy projekt The Laughning Clowns, a następnie grungowy The Aints. Dla mnie jednak najciekawszymi produkcjami są jego solowe dokonania. Słychać tam wspaniałą sytntezę stylów od punka po psychodelię, a wszystko to podane w formie transowych ballad. Moim zdaniem twórczość Kueppera można stawiać śmiało na równi z nagraniami innych "ojców" i "matek" sceny alternatywnej - Iggy Popa, Lou Reeda, Jonathana Richmana, Patti Smith etc.
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Ed Kuepper (born Edmund Kuepper in Bremen, West Germany, 20 December 1955) is an Australian guitarist, singer and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group The Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints. He has also recorded over a dozen albums in his own name with a variety of backing bands, notably Ed Kuepper and the Yard Goes On Forever, Ed Kuepper and his Oxley Creek Playboys, Ed Kuepper and The Institute Of Nude Wrestling, The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, Ed Kuepper and the New Imperialists and presently Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective.
Kuepper was awarded ARIAs in 1993 and 1994 for Best Independent Australian Release (and nominated for similar awards in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998). He was probably Australia's most prolific recording artist in the early nineties.
In recent years, Kuepper has been involved in soundtracking radio drama and experimental films. He toured Australia and Europe performing semi-improvised music to some of these films under the banner of MFLL. Venues included The Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Sydney Opera House, The Austrian Film Museum (Vienna) and The Cartier Foundation (Paris), where Kuepper has the distinction of being the only rock musician to be invited to play apart from the Velvet Underground.
Ed Kuepper's most recent release is the 2007 album Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog, which is loosely based on the story of Jean Lee who was the last woman hanged in Australia, and features amongst others, performances by Jeffrey Wegener (Laughing Clowns), Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys), Warren Ellis (Dirty Three), and Chris Bailey (The Saints).
Kuepper was awarded ARIAs in 1993 and 1994 for Best Independent Australian Release (and nominated for similar awards in 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998). He was probably Australia's most prolific recording artist in the early nineties.
In recent years, Kuepper has been involved in soundtracking radio drama and experimental films. He toured Australia and Europe performing semi-improvised music to some of these films under the banner of MFLL. Venues included The Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane), Sydney Opera House, The Austrian Film Museum (Vienna) and The Cartier Foundation (Paris), where Kuepper has the distinction of being the only rock musician to be invited to play apart from the Velvet Underground.
Ed Kuepper's most recent release is the 2007 album Jean Lee and the Yellow Dog, which is loosely based on the story of Jean Lee who was the last woman hanged in Australia, and features amongst others, performances by Jeffrey Wegener (Laughing Clowns), Peter Oxley (Sunnyboys), Warren Ellis (Dirty Three), and Chris Bailey (The Saints).
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