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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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― sleeve, Sunday, 10 November 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
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complete liveblog, 2 hours 25 minutes total time on 2 CDs:
1 Sounding good so far, like a more wigged out Soliloquy For Lilith.
2 second track changes it up completely with a pretty, echoed, twinkly trip. I'm in love, idk if I've heard anything this pretty from him since Spiral Insana
3 third track immediately goes way out there into whispered echo madness stutter, fuck this is good. ...this turns into jackhammer insanity around 9 minutes in
4 4th track is mystic, gorgeous, immense, that wide open desert sound with slow big drums, slide guitar, and drones
5 5th track is a continuation of 4? I can hang w/that. real Organum vibes going on here
6 6th track is slow and subtle, unfolding gently
7 post-dinner return: 7th track starts out all shifting and slithering, disorienting. "heavy panning" as they say. this is actually the most minimal so far, not a lot of dynamics going on at first listen.
8 last (8th) track immediately starts out properly psych rock, gently jamming waves. this actually reminds me of the Boredoms side project Hanadensha and their later dreamy psych rock instrumentals.
none of these really have any sudden shifts of moood, and only one (the 7-minute track 2) is less than a full 18-20 minute LP side. but on first listen, this thing is (yet) another goddamn masterpiece from the dude.
not on Bandcamp yet, sadly.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
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