nurse with wound - ace or arse?

I've kind of lost track of Stapleton since An Awkward Pause, which was excellent. What are the most essential NWW albums post-2000?

Huffin' Rag Blues and Surveillance Lounge for sure

Man With The Woman Face and the Shipwreck series are good too

Got a soft spot on my heart for Rat Tapes One but it's really an outtake collection

"May The Fleas Of 1000 Camels..." maybe a bit less great but still worthwhile

Space Music is pretty cool too

Thanks!

http://www.laweekly.com/music/the-story-behind-the-planets-most-influential-road-map-of-weird-music-6865921

good Quietus article, although I vehemently disagree with the canonical revision/coronation of the 1st album (I find the 2nd and 3rd much stronger).

http://thequietus.com/articles/23370-nurse-with-wound-review-biography

Like C93, I feel Stapleton pretty much ran out of ideas around the turn of the millennium. Nothing he's done since Salt Marie Celeste has impressed me much. Also, the omission of Thunder Perfect Mind from this list is wtf.

aw man, not even Huffin Rag Blues?

personally, yeah, I could have easily swapped the inessential "Sadness Of Things" for TPM

I haven't listened to HRB lately, I should give it another spin. Anything else from the 2000s/2010s you feel is essential?

ha, we talked about this upthread - the only other one I'd shortlist as essential is The Surveillance Lounge

oh wait you answered the same question from me just upthread in 2014 lol

xp lool

hey it's been a while :)

Huffin Rag Blues is definitely worthy.

Things you learn when you're really old (or whatever that thread was called): there is a Nurse With Wound album called Thunder Perfect Mind. I thought they were talking about the Current 93 album - now I've read that they both released albums with that title and both worked on each of them it makes sense.

and you can play them at the same time!

new one "Trippin' Musik" is fantastic, haven't been this stoked about a NWW album since Huffin' Rag Blues. only on track 4 of 8 and it sounds fucking great, every track is different.

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.

this new 3CD "Miscellany: Lussuoso" set is really fantastic, lots and lots of tracks/experiments

https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/miscellany-lussuoso-electronics-1990-to-2015

Although this is credited to NWW on the bandcamp page, the artwork suggests it's an Andrew Liles solo project. No offence to Liles, but if there's no Stapleton involvement, I'm not interested.

ah you are correct. well count this as the first thing Liles has done that I like, then. in general, I share your opinion.

now we're talking, this is fantastic:

Breaking news from a post by M. S. Waldron:

Well, the day has finally arrived. I've been excited about this for a very long time, but wanted to wait until the official release happened before I made any announcements. A new album from the remarkable Diana Rogerson has finally been released today on Bandcamp! There doesn't seem to be any news about this anywhere else online, so I'm assuming that hardly anyone knows about it. A shame she missed Bandcamp Friday by a single day! I love this album and have been greatly anticipating it's release. It's a very quiet & unassuming arrival of a fabulous new record from an incredibly unique artist, so I'm going to make a bit of noise about it and strongly encourage you to investigate & support this release!

'Blue Bottle In A Jam Jar' has been in the works for quite sometime, but I can only provide details from my own involvement. Diana asked me to do the cover art for the album back in mid-2019, and I assume initial recording was already underway at the time. She asked me to master the album back in April 2021, and I did some additional remixing and embellishment of four of the tracks in the following months. I thought those four remixes/revisions I'd made (tracks 3, 4, 6 and 8 ) would just be added as bonus tracks of some kind, but I guess they've supplanted the earlier versions entirely. I'm not aware of the particulars about how the tracks were recorded in Ireland before they were sent to me, so I'm afraid I can't provide more information about that. However she went about it, she's managed to put together yet another fabulous record that easily stands alongside her two classic Chrystal Belle Scrodd records from the 80s and 'The Lights Are On But No-One's Home' from 2007. I hope she doesn't wait quite so long to do the next one!

https://dianarogerson.bandcamp.com

Tried a search on here to no avail and no samples on the internet that i can find— has anyone heard the Masstishaddhu- Shekinah LP?

I stumbled across it while looking for something else on Discogs, and now I really want to hear it.

yeah gimme a few

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ivmww6h2fa80br7/Masstishaddhu.zip/file

thanks, MP3 blog of the mid-2000s that I can't remember

in sadly related news, this is printed on the back of the newest CD (Deadlined):

"Deadlined is an unfinished 2019 album stopped in it's (sic) tracks by Covid, making travel and recording plans near impossible for the unjabbed leper."

so.... that's kind of a drag

ugh yes to put it mildly

was trying to pull punches out of nostalgia but it genuinely breaks my heart

mine too. this is an act whose music is special to me, and some of that specialness is a feeling of intellectual kinship -- shared interests, a common groove that runs through visual art & sound & affect. no gods no heroes right? but, like...it's kind of like learning a beloved professor, somebody who walked you through poetry and took you to places you might never have found by yourself, harbors some really unpleasant reactionary position. I don't feel like "he buried this sentiment in some liner notes" rises to the level of "then don't buy this guy's music," you know, but...it knocks him off a pedestal, is all, and I liked my man up on his weird pedestal of illumination there, instead of in the sea of people who've made the world worse.

extremely otm, thank you for saying it so well