nurse with wound - ace or arse?

I thought Rock N' Roll Station was kind of like his "party" album but I played it when people were over and it was a big huge flop.

"Who Can I Turn To Stereo?" is a nice easy listen (and therefore maybe a bad entry point). I need more of his 80s stuff, that's for sure. "An Awkward Pause" has his most rocking track ever on it, the bouzouki one. I love it.

''tom- jacques berrocal's "rock 'n'' roll station has just been rereleased on alga marghen cds''

the alb is called 'paralleles'.

Sounds vaguely what I've been waiting for. Has anyone listened to this yet?

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmmR9OJWV0I

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.

http://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/

O_O

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

Putting THAT mildly.

gonna buy me that Lumbs Sisters release, I missed that one. FLAC files!!

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.

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thank sleeve you :)

Fidbek is cool.

jesus christ Stapleton how about making a record I can actually hear?

Dream Memory (2012)
White label CDr release, limited to 50 numbered copies, each in a unique handmade sleeve
0 For Sale

? CD (2012, "?" is the title)
Sold only at the NWW gigs in Torino 2012-05-17 and Florence 2012-05-18
2 For Sale from $412.47

Xerography LP (2013)
released in an edition of 125 copies, 98 of which are for sale. Each copy is unique and handmade.
1 For Sale from $249.99

Silver Bromide LP (2013)
released in an edition of 125 copies, 98 of which are for sale. Each copy is unique and handmade.
0 For Sale

On second thoughts, keep on keeping it real so I don't have to hear any.

two new releases on Bamdcamp in the last month

only heard the EP, Requital For Lady Day, very very slow atmospheric whoosh. 2nd track has a bit more going on, but I am underwhelmed. The other release is a full length w/a good review, gonna check that out in a day or two.

def arse

fremdschämen inspiring hippie music & conservative collage in a "surrealism for dummies" package.

what is this collaborative release with SUNN and more to the point is it any good?

That "Iron Soul Of Nothing" remix album? I found it disappointing, very dull and doesn't really do either one of them justice.

agreed

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