nurse with wound - ace or arse?

faust/nww y/n?

Looks good

Supposed to be good. Haven't heard it yet. Cover is kinda ugly though which is unusual.

According to discogs:
"There is no difference between the case of the special edition and the regular edition. The bonus track is not marked."

OMG. What will the record collectors do on ebay?!

arse

He is a better goat farmer than a musician, in my opinion. One true story - I used to live next door to a dominatrix and one of her tricks used to play Nurse With The Wound's music when she was whipping some guy, he used to ask her to make him come all over a kebab and then eat it

You are Steven Stapleton and I claim my five pounds.

i'm about two hours into the three disc reissue of 'soliloquy for lilith', and i don't want this to ever stop.

man i am so buying that record when i have more cash

it is one of the best. so mysterious and full of dark beauty.

I heard from a very reliable source that there's actually no new material on there, he just slowed down the original (or something along those lines, the specifics there could be off, but the 'no new material' part was very clear).

back to the original question, I thought 'ace' for a long time, but now I'm wondering how much there was ever there. I'd love to hear his long-rumored disc featuring all female rappers, but not surprisingly, he seems hesitant to actually let the world hear that one.

You think these are criticisms of the NWW, but they've been levelled plenty times. and they aren't criticisms.

the hip-hop cd thing was a pisstake..... it's doesn't exist..

It doesn't exist yet. Do you have any reason to assert that it's a piss-take?

OK Drew, who is Hazel Two Twiggs?

Huffin' Rag Blues is ROCKING MY WORLD.

Stapleton has outdone himself again. Sounds nothing like any other NWW album, yet somehow instantly identifiable. I love all the cuss words.

I don't know either. I've been loving the hell out of "Huffin' Rag Blues" and the "Bacteria Magnet" 12" EP too- I just don't get the bile and "meh" in some of the reviews because I think it's so hilarious and powerful and funny and counter-intuitive- I think the repetition and rhythm is building off of "Rock n Roll Station" and the kitschy loungey thing is building off of "Sylvie & Babs" and those are both such classics that maybe this just suffers by comparison, but I really dig it, especially the over-the-top mountains of sound effects of animals and birds that overwhelms things, and then when the same thing happens but with car horns later on it's a true lol moment (esp. that sudden voice going "motherfucker!" from out of nowhere). Genius! Really!

The ridiculous Sheena Easton cover is something they've been doing live for a while now, had no idea it would crop up on this record too. (it's at the end of "Black Teeth"- they suddenly launch into "Morning Train")

I've been really into the NWW/Faust album lately.

"I just don't get the bile and "meh" in some of the reviews"

In 5 years, the same critics will write about the "Huffin'Rag Blues" golden era, when listening to NWW was fun.
Me, I just love it now, and I like also the Faust album.

i adore "huffin' rag blues"

"cruisin' for a bruisin" is a regular feature of my dj sets. it works surprisingly well on the dancefloor and sounds INSANE on a good soundsystem.

i'm still holding my breath for the hip hop album........

finally getting 'round to huffin' rag blues, it's sounding fantastic so far, particularly "the funktion of the hairy egg". kind of a "two golden microphones" vibe. great vocals all over this album as well.

has anyone heard the "two shaves and a shine" remix album? does it sound anything like the live version fezaffe posted a while ago?

A friend of mine had his remix included in the final album!

Absolutely loving "Funeral Music for Perez Prado" at the moment - anything else out there like that?

Along with pandas, rhinos and the Chinese river dolphin, record stores are on the endangered species list. Nurse With Wound are doing their best to help with Paranoia in Hi-Fi on Dirter Promotions. A collection of remixes, unreleased pieces and "unexpected tracks," this new album is priced at a measly 99p and is only available from your local record store in the UK. So give your postman a rest, take a walk down to your nearest bricks and mortar store on November 30th and tell them Steve Stapleton sent you.

um, can anyone from the UK pick me up a copy of this and mail it to the states if I paypal you postage? send me an ILX email if you can help out.

and as regards Funeral For Perez Prado, if I recall the basic loop was taken from a David jackman album called Sol Mara which is really good drone, warmer than the usual Organum sound. either that or it came from the NWW track "A Piece Of The Sky Is Missing", B-side to "Cooloorta Moon" and also on CD somewhere I think.

What sleeve wrote

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I might be able to help out regarding the 99p NWW CD. I'll know closer to the time how many copies we end up with and how many are spare. When we get to the week beforehand I'll get back in touch...

But where are these mysterious "record shops"?

An Awkward Pause is the one I play most often.

Also I just picked up both the Dirter box set of the Chance Meeting reissue and the new Vinyl on Demand box. Both are nice to have but the VOD one is simply stunning, one of the most amazing box sets I've ever seen. Worth every penny.

Just picked up ''spiral insana'', I'm digging it. I'll wait until I get my hands on more albums before I judge them.

So it seems Paranoia in Hi-Fi is going to be sold at shops around the world. Whether "the world" encompasses more than the UK and US remains to be seen, but Forced Exposure are handling distro in the US, so sleeve should be fine.

I better start bothering my stores now.

dammit I forgot about this! anybody get one?

also, has anyone heard Space Music?

Apparently my record store has it in on order. Hope so.

Just looking at Space Music now. Here: http://www.blrrecords.com/prod/2049/space_music.html

Don't know whether to get the CD box now, or wait for the vinyl which has been delayed as usual.

headz up lads

http://www.copticcat.com/news/28/58/Current-93-Two-London-dates-28-29-May-2010

Show in Cologne the other week was great. Steve said he reckoned it was the closest they'd come to doing a VU style 'Sister Ray' jam live.

am going to this:

http://www.tramway.org/performance/177/a_midsummer_days_dream_evening_live_performance/

also, has anyone heard Space Music?

Yes -- it's alright, kinda formless and soundtrack-y to my ears.

I'm still picking up NWW albums as I find them, but can definitely recommend you SEARCH (to varying degrees): Insect and Individual Silenced, Homotopy to Marie, Drunk with the Old Man of the Mountains, An Awkward Pause, Salt Marie Celeste, Huffin Rag Blues, The Surveillance Lounge, and Space Music (as mentioned above).

Can anyone recommend or advise against Soundpooling? That one's sitting in a local used shop, am thinking about picking it up before it disappears.

Can anyone recommend or advise against Soundpooling?

Yes, it's great - and is of somewhat historical importance as well, being a recording of the first NWW concert for, ooh, decades, which took place in Vienna in 2005. At the Pathological Museum, a wonderful choice of venue.

NICE! Thanks for the recommendation.

yeah it is good.

I did in fact eventually get Space Music and haven't really been able to get into it. I should try again.

playing glasgow on june 26th

http://www.optimo.co.uk/nursewithwound/

Try Space Music while walking home late at night on headphones.

NWW playing Berlin next month http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/praxis/musikbuehne_nurse_with_wound_blind_cave_salamander/

I've heard (rather than really listened to) Soliloquy For Lilith and think I might enjoy this. Agree? What is Stapleton like live?

Worth seeing.

the "new" NWW, Second Pirate Session, is an ace bunch of languid psychedelia with a drum machine - I guess some? all? of this has been issued before, but I just saw it on a new-releases shelf while out & about in NY and grabbed it and it's doing the trick

I think I'll try to see this.

I wish I had the luxury of pondering whether to see NWW live.

http://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/

O_O

well that certainly would have saved me some money over the years

extremely otm, thank you for saying it so well