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Russian interview in conjunction with the recent show:
October 20 in the metropolitan hall " Moscow Hallª act Nurse with Wound - British musical project by Steven Stapleton , existing in a cult status since the late 1970s. In music Nurse with Wound elements are mixed industrial, Krautrock , avant-garde, noise, ambient, but not in one of these styles work Stapleton does not fit. No less than the music on the leader of Nurse with Wound influenced Surrealism and Dadaism . In addition, Stapleton is known for its constant collaboration with David Tibet (Current 93). " Lenta.ru, " published an interview with Steven Stapleton .
" Lenta.ru, ": You already visited Russia several years ago. What do you remember here then ?
Steven Stapleton : Compared to the rest of Europe, in Russia, I experienced a real culture shock - so it seemed to me strange. Well, for example , run through the streets of Moscow pack of wild dogs. It is striking . Yet your station , where each station is like a palace. Also, I met various interesting people. For example , a priest who blessed us all before the concert.
You, in general, not so long ago began to give concerts . And before that, Nurse with Wound did not perform twenty years. This is for all of you still new ?
No, now I 'm used to. Concerts are good because you never know what can happen. I like to get out on the stage of people who do not understand what they can do on it - read a poem , for example, or start dancing . I wish that my performance surprised me the most . Incidentally, we are now playing with three of Andrew Lyle and Colin Potter - Matt ( Waldron , another musician Nurse with Wound - approx. " Heathcliff ") also lives on a farm in America and transatlantic flights more expensive, and the extra two thousand we do not have the euro . But in fact , when fewer people are on the scene, so even better, because the music is also becoming more space.
You release the album more in the home. Why is that ?
This, of course , due to the current state of the music industry. I do not know how this state of affairs in Moscow, but in Ireland and England, for example , almost no music stores . In the west of Ireland have none at all , not one. And if you let go and drive, it has a second is on the web. So I decided that the best option - do it from the albums kind artifacts. People would like to have them at home, so that they are somehow better than the downloaded mp3. For example , we have now released a joint album with Aranos, so do the real cover six months - we used cloth, wood , paint. They look amazing , and each has its own unique copy of the cover , that is, each plate - a unique work of art. Actually , I'm on it all already naobzhigalsya . People have asked, and you have something special? And I was nothing . Then I decided to do a special albums for sale at the concerts. Here I am only selling them for 20 euros , and the next day they were hung on eBay and was worth all eight . I had to slow down and come up with a new scheme .
You are against the fact that people download music ?
But why ? This is not necessarily a bad thing . In general, it is a natural process. But I , in truth , an ignoramus when it comes to computers. I have a computer and then its not the one with which I am now talking to you , belongs to my girlfriend . And with all due respect to the progress I personally do not want to have anything to do with digital music . I still go to record stores and dig into plates .
Can you remember any album you bought solely because of the cover , not knowing what kind of music ?
Of course . In general , the fact that we are now talking to you - it can be said , the result of the fact that in 1971 I bought an expensive import for the time record , simply because it fell in love with design . This was the album ´Psychedelic Undergroundª Amon Duul, and it changed my whole life . I'm still so convinced that the music , at least for the like of which I do, clearance - as important a part as the actual sounds. Downloading a digital copy , you lose something very important.
The fan video for the song ´The Bottom Feederª, sliced ??from the works of Czech animator Jiri Barta .
"The list of NWWª, a list of favorite bands that you applied to their first album, recently grown a fair cult. Do you know ?
Yes, I know about it. In 1978 , when we made ??the list , as if we have sown seed. And now increased spreading oak . Just a few months ago, "Bi- Bi-Si " have made a list of four-hour radio program on NWW, I was even asked to pick up for her music. I 'm proud of it , because every group we find with great diligence , studied and selected. And it took a lot of effort - because the Internet does not have, and no encyclopedias strange music was not there . List - is a consequence of many years of collecting , thousands of hours spent listening to records, and a huge amount of money spent on it to buy them. By the way, you know that when the list first came , everyone hated him ? No one knew of these groups , all said that the list of no use to anyone . Over the years, he would certainly have taken root in the collective unconscious of collectors , and now a lot of people are trying to collect records of each group that is mentioned in the list. But , by the way , many people do not realize that there were some groups solely because of one plate , and sometimes even one song. Let's say there is any group quickly became terrible - and the list of NWW it only because of his first album .
You feel proud when musicians mentioned in the list, solemnly re-released ? Well , let's say , have now become a reissue albums Don Bradshaw-Leather; recently released a documentary film about the Ya Ho Wha 13.
Well proud of - rather just glad that no one previously unknown musicians get some recognition. Not that this is my doing . Our list of all - a double edged sword . Anything can happen . One musician , for example, will not be named, insisted that we removed it from the list, even threatened to sue us . Well, we have removed . On the other hand, there is a Frenchman , Jean Cohen - Solyal , amazing flutist playing improvised music , his albums have recently been reissued , and he wrote that he considered the most important achievement in his life getting into our list. That's very nice.
I remember five years ago, you talked about how you are going to write a hip-hop album . Failed?
Nothing came of it . I did some time to love rap , I came up with a project that invited all their favorite hip -hop musicians to participate, and they agreed , surprisingly . But then I lost interest in the genre , just two weeks . He saw it all became very commercial and empty. Money , boobs , guns . Boredom . So I end up with the album recording just did not.
Speech by Nurse with Wound on the Primavera Festival in Barcelona, ??2013 .
On one of the last albums Nurse with Wound you have used samples of music [ singer and guitarist from Mali ] Boubacar Traore . How did this happen? You do like African music ?
It is interesting to me . But here are all very prosaic : Nurse with Wound played a concert with Traore at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, so I used excerpts from there. By the way, it was complete madness . We have a friend in Paris agent - and she suddenly took it into his head that we have to play a concert with Boubacar Traore . It was incredibly frustrating. He did not speak in English , we do not speak French . In fact, at first I thought at all to give up , but Andrew ( Lyles , associate Stapleton - approx. " Heathcliff ") said that it is a great challenge and we can handle. I'm not sure that we really managed. Bubacar , in my opinion, do not like it .
For you do it is important that the music was a challenge for you ?
Hmm . Well, with Boubacar exactly would be more comfortable if we understood each other. And we were not even each other's music before the play took . It is , in my opinion , I thought that we a bunch of idiots. He's a star in his home country , for sure he was sitting and thinking, " What the hell am I doing here ? " So no, I do not like to put myself specially limitations and difficulties come up . Me and without them something to do.
You once said that ´Soliloquy for Lilithª - the most natural your album to have originated in itself , as if out of thin air . Do you still think so?
Yes. In general, he was recorded by accident. I worked on one track for Current 93 . And so it happened that I put together a few guitar pedals ( the old models , which have not yet been integrated squelch ) , run them through the mixer, and then put back into themselves. In general, closed the circuit . Went fidbek - and from themselves appear different patterns and rhythms . Once I'm done with this track Current 93 , so I decided to record an entire album of Nurse with Wound. Joined a dozen pedals , and this was a real beauty : fidbek was born in one of them and moved on , growing through them like a pyramid . I only had to bring his hand to the pedals , to somehow control the music and change the sound of it . I played just leading hands in the air . Music just happened by itself . Here is I'm terribly much.
Interviewed by Oleg Sobolev
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