Serene Machine is the seventh solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter Ed Kuepper

Ed Kuepper

Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...

 recorded in 1993 and released on the Hot label. It received an ARIA Award

ARIA Music Awards

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...

 for 'Best Independent Release' at the ARIA Music Awards of 1994

ARIA Music Awards of 1994

The Eighth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 30 March 1994 at the State Theatre in Sydney...

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Reception

The album spent one week in the Australian Recording Industry Association

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 Albums Chart in 1993 at No. 45. Serene Machine was awarded an ARIA

ARIA Music Awards

The Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards is an annual series of awards nights celebrating the Australian music industry, put on by the Australian Recording Industry Association...

 for the Best Independent Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 1994

ARIA Music Awards of 1994

The Eighth Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards was held on 30 March 1994 at the State Theatre in Sydney...

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Track listing

All compositions by Ed Kuepper except as indicated

1. "When She's Down" – 3:09
2. "Sleepy Head (Serene Machine)" – 4:00
3. "Who's Been Talking?" – 2:45
4. "It's Happened Before" – 3:48
5. "I Wish You Were Here" – 3:01
6. "Maria Peripatetica" (Traditional) – 3:36
7. "Sounds Like Mysterious Wind" – 3:19
8. "Reasons" – 3:54
9. "This Hideous Place" – 3:12
10. "(You) Don't Know What To Steal" – 3:47
11. "You Can't Please Everybody (Sweete Reprise)" – 4:00
12. "Married To My Lazy Life" – 2:24

Recorded at Electric Avenue, Sydney, Australia in February 1993.

Personnel

• Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper
  Ed Kuepper is an Australian guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. He co-founded the seminal punk band The Saints, the experimental post-punk group Laughing Clowns and later the grunge-like The Aints...
  
   – vocals, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Mark Dawson – drums
  Drum kit
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  , percussion
• Sir Alfonso – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Artie Sledge – guitar, bass guitar
• The Hub Matinee Choral Society, The Socialist Republic of Newtown's People's Choir – vocals