Nurse with Wound
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Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton
. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. The band has performed in many genres such as avant-garde
, industrial
, noise
, dark ambient
, and drone
.
and were generally considered industrial music
, despite the objections of the group.
By 1981, only Stapleton was left from the original trio and he now regards 1982's Homotopy to Marie
, as being the first proper Nurse with Wound release. There are now over 40 full length NWW titles. Stapleton's fondness for dada
, surrealism
and absurdist humor are demonstrated in much of NWW's output, which, though it draws directly on a wide assortment of genres (including cabaret
music, nursery rhymes, John Cage
, The Beach Boys
, krautrock, ambient music
, and easy listening
) retains a distinctive and recognizable aura. Musique concrète
may be the most prominent touchstone, due to Stapleton's frequent, and often humorous, use of creative tape loop
s and editing. This aesthetic is fully represented in the artwork on the album covers, virtually all of which is created by Stapleton, mostly under the pseudonym "Babs Santini".
, Tony Wakeford
, David Jackman
of Organum, Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio
, Stereolab
, Jim O'Rourke
, Christoph Heemann
, William Bennett of Whitehouse
, Robert Haigh
, Rose McDowall
of Strawberry Switchblade
, Annie Anxiety, John Balance
of Coil
, Matt Waldron of Irr. App (Ext) and most regularly David Tibet
of Current 93
. For some time, NWW was a core duo of Stapleton and Colin Potter, the latter having first worked with NWW on 1992's "Thunder Perfect Mind" when it was recorded at Potter's ICR studio. Potter has appeared on almost every NWW release since. In 2009, a CD titled "Ød Lot" was released (credited to Nurse With Wound) which contained solo recordings by Stapleton, Potter, Waldron and Andrew Liles
.
John Fothergill helped found the band when it started. After parting company he went on to spend many years at the BBC childrens unit accounting for programs such as Raven / In the Night Garden. He retired in June 2010.
in Vienna
, where they performed improvisations on the album Salt Marie Celeste. These concerts were not billed as NWW appearances. The first official NWW appearances since 1984 were at the Great American Music Hall
in San Francisco in June 2006. In December of the same year, the group played at the All Tomorrow's Parties
festival organized by Thurston Moore
. Stapleton continues to indicate that his long-promised hip-hop album featuring 5 or 6 female rap artists is forthcoming. During 2007, Stapleton gigged and DJ'ed with much greater regularity, including a set at experimental music night Stress!! in Galway City, Ireland and full live NWW sets is in Austria, Belgium, France, Barcelona, London, Moscow, Berlin and Venice.
A collaborative work with krautrock
legend Faust
was released on CD in 2007 as Disconnected with a vinyl edition carrying additional mixes following in 2008. A NWW album entitled Huffin' Rag Blues, primarily a collaboration with British sound artist Andrew Liles, was issued in 2008 with a companion mini-LP
entitled The Bacteria Magnet. A remix of Sunn O)))
's ØØ Void
entitled The Iron Soul of Nothing was given a limited release with an expanded reissue of the out-of-print studio album The Man with the Woman Face following. An album of new material entitled The Surveillance Lounge was then released as a CD with a limited triple CD called The Memory Surface. A CD of new material entitled Space Music
will be released on 17 November 2009.
A full list can be found on the NWW website, hosted by Brainwashed.com.
Steven Stapleton
Steven Peter Stapleton is a British musician and the only constant member of experimental improv outfit Nurse with Wound...
. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. The band has performed in many genres such as avant-garde
Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres....
, industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
, noise
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
, dark ambient
Dark ambient
Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...
, and drone
Drone music
Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics...
.
Musical output
Their early recordings, all made quickly, were heavily influenced by free improvisation and krautrockKrautrock
Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...
and were generally considered industrial music
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
, despite the objections of the group.
By 1981, only Stapleton was left from the original trio and he now regards 1982's Homotopy to Marie
Homotopy to Marie
Homotopy To Marie is the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, released in 1982.Although Nurse With Wound had generated considerable interest across their preceding releases, Steven Stapleton has asserted to author David Keenan that Homotopy To Marie should be considered the first "real" NWW album...
, as being the first proper Nurse with Wound release. There are now over 40 full length NWW titles. Stapleton's fondness for dada
Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
, surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
and absurdist humor are demonstrated in much of NWW's output, which, though it draws directly on a wide assortment of genres (including cabaret
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
music, nursery rhymes, John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
, The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
, krautrock, ambient music
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, and easy listening
Easy listening
Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...
) retains a distinctive and recognizable aura. Musique concrète
Musique concrète
Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
may be the most prominent touchstone, due to Stapleton's frequent, and often humorous, use of creative tape loop
Tape loop
In music, tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound. Contemporary composers such as Steve Reich and Karlheinz Stockhausen used tape loops to create phase patterns and rhythms...
s and editing. This aesthetic is fully represented in the artwork on the album covers, virtually all of which is created by Stapleton, mostly under the pseudonym "Babs Santini".
Members
Although Stapleton has sole curatorship of NWW, the group has a long and illustrious list of collaborators including Diana Rogerson (Stapleton's wife), James Thirlwell of FoetusFoetus (band)
Foetus is the primary musical outlet of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. Until 1995 the band underwent various name changes, all including the word foetus. Monikers adopted at different times include Foetus Under Glass, You've Got Foetus On Your Breath and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel...
, Tony Wakeford
Tony Wakeford
Anthony Charles "Tony" Wakeford is an English folk and neoclassical musician who primarily records under the name Sol Invictus.Wakeford lives in London and is married to Sol Invictus violinist Renée Rosen....
, David Jackman
David Jackman
David Jackman is a British musician and visual artist with an extensive catalogue of drone works, mostly as the principal — and often sole — member of Organum....
of Organum, Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio
Hafler Trio
The Hafler Trio is a conceptual and sound art collaborative between Andrew M. McKenzie, the only permanent member, and guest musicians. The project has seen the release of numerous albums and CDs in experimental musical styles ranging from electronica, cut-up, ambient, environmental soundscape,...
, Stereolab
Stereolab
Stereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...
, Jim O'Rourke
Jim O'Rourke (musician)
Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...
, Christoph Heemann
Christoph Heemann
Christoph Heemann , is a German musician.Heemann has recorded under his own name, with the tape music group H.N.A.S., and with many collaborators in alternative rock, soundtrack production and visual arts....
, William Bennett of Whitehouse
Whitehouse (band)
Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
, Robert Haigh
Robert Haigh
Robert Haigh is a retired hockey player from Australia, who won two Olympic silver medals as a member of the national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...
, Rose McDowall
Rose McDowall
Rose McDowall is a Scottish musician, most notably as a vocalist in the pop band Strawberry Switchblade.-History:...
of Strawberry Switchblade
Strawberry Switchblade
Strawberry Switchblade was a female pop rock band formed in Scotland in 1981 by Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall, best known for their song "Since Yesterday" in 1985.-Before being signed:...
, Annie Anxiety, John Balance
John Balance
John Balance , born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with his partner Peter Christopherson...
of Coil
Coil (band)
Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...
, Matt Waldron of Irr. App (Ext) and most regularly David Tibet
David Tibet
David Tibet is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He had earlier collaborated with Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo...
of Current 93
Current 93
Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...
. For some time, NWW was a core duo of Stapleton and Colin Potter, the latter having first worked with NWW on 1992's "Thunder Perfect Mind" when it was recorded at Potter's ICR studio. Potter has appeared on almost every NWW release since. In 2009, a CD titled "Ød Lot" was released (credited to Nurse With Wound) which contained solo recordings by Stapleton, Potter, Waldron and Andrew Liles
Andrew Liles
Andrew Liles is a UK based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist. He has a vast output of recordings that he has released since the mid-1980s, covering a variety of styles as experimental music, dark ambient music, progressive rock and even hints at hard rock....
.
John Fothergill helped found the band when it started. After parting company he went on to spend many years at the BBC childrens unit accounting for programs such as Raven / In the Night Garden. He retired in June 2010.
Current work (2005–present)
In 2005, Nurse with Wound returned to live performance after a 21-year absence. Stapleton, Potter, Waldron, Rogerson and Andrew Liles played three concerts at the NarrenturmNarrenturm (hospital)
The Narrenturm in Vienna is continental Europe's oldest building for the accommodation of mental patients. Built in 1784, it is next to the site of the old Vienna General Hospital , and is now home to the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum Vienna .-The building:The Narrenturm was constructed in...
in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, where they performed improvisations on the album Salt Marie Celeste. These concerts were not billed as NWW appearances. The first official NWW appearances since 1984 were at the Great American Music Hall
Great American Music Hall
The Great American Music Hall is a concert hall in San Francisco, California. It is located on O'Farrell Street in the Tenderloin neighborhood on the same block as the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater...
in San Francisco in June 2006. In December of the same year, the group played at the All Tomorrow's Parties
All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)
All Tomorrow's Parties is a music festival which takes place at Camber Sands holiday camp in East Sussex and Butlin's holiday camp in Minehead, Somerset, England....
festival organized by Thurston Moore
Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
. Stapleton continues to indicate that his long-promised hip-hop album featuring 5 or 6 female rap artists is forthcoming. During 2007, Stapleton gigged and DJ'ed with much greater regularity, including a set at experimental music night Stress!! in Galway City, Ireland and full live NWW sets is in Austria, Belgium, France, Barcelona, London, Moscow, Berlin and Venice.
A collaborative work with krautrock
Krautrock
Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...
legend Faust
Faust (band)
Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History:Faust...
was released on CD in 2007 as Disconnected with a vinyl edition carrying additional mixes following in 2008. A NWW album entitled Huffin' Rag Blues, primarily a collaboration with British sound artist Andrew Liles, was issued in 2008 with a companion mini-LP
Mini-LP
A Mini-LP or Mini-album is a short album, usually retailing at a lower price than an album that would be considered "full-length".-History:...
entitled The Bacteria Magnet. A remix of Sunn O)))
Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...
's ØØ Void
ØØ Void
-Guest musicians:* Petra Haden - violin, vocals* Scott Reeder - bass guitar* Peter Stahl - vocals...
entitled The Iron Soul of Nothing was given a limited release with an expanded reissue of the out-of-print studio album The Man with the Woman Face following. An album of new material entitled The Surveillance Lounge was then released as a CD with a limited triple CD called The Memory Surface. A CD of new material entitled Space Music
Space music
Space music, also called spacemusic, is an umbrella term, synonymous with a segment of New Age Music and Ambient Music, used to describe music that evokes a feeling of contemplative spaciousness. Space music can be found within a wide range of genres. It is particularly associated with ambient, New...
will be released on 17 November 2009.
Discography
- (selected; a full discography can be obtained from the official website—see links below)
Albums
All records released on United Dairies, except where indicated.- Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an UmbrellaChance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an UmbrellaChance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella was the debut album by Nurse With Wound, released on their own United Dairies label in 1979. The album enjoys a reputation as one of the most singular debuts of all time...
(1979), United Dairies (expanded, anniversary edition issued on World Serpent/United Dairies, 2001) - Noise War 4 (1979, released 1988), Kas
- To the Quiet Men from a Tiny GirlTo the Quiet Men from a Tiny GirlTo the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl is the second album by Nurse With Wound and the last to be made by the founding trio of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. The album also features contributions from French avant-garde musician Jacques Berrocal...
(1980), United Dairies - Merzbild SchwetMerzbild SchwetMerzbild Schwet is the third album by British cult band Nurse With Wound.Following disagreements amongst the founding NWW trio over To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl, Steven Stapleton returned to the studio without Heman Pathak or John Fothergill to create something that more closely fulfilled his...
(1980), United Dairies - Insect and Individual SilencedInsect and Individual SilencedInsect and Individual Silenced was the fourth album by Nurse With Wound.The album was recorded in 1981 with core member Steven Stapleton being joined by drummer Trevor Reidy and J. G. Thirlwell of Foetus for the track "Absent Old Queen Underfoot". Reidy and Thirlwell worked in the same Virgin store...
(1981), United Dairies - The 150 Murderous Passions with WhitehouseWhitehouse (band)Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...
(1981), Come Organisation - Homotopy to MarieHomotopy to MarieHomotopy To Marie is the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, released in 1982.Although Nurse With Wound had generated considerable interest across their preceding releases, Steven Stapleton has asserted to author David Keenan that Homotopy To Marie should be considered the first "real" NWW album...
(1982), United Dairies - Ostranenie 1913 (1983), Third Mind Records
- Brained by Falling Masonry (1984), L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords
- Nylon Coverin' Body Smotherin' with Current 93Current 93Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...
(1984), Mi Mort - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi CompanionThe Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi CompanionThe Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion is an album by Nurse With Wound.In his book "England's Hidden Reverse", David Keenan describes the album as "some light relief in the early Nurse catalogue". Steven Stapleton told Keenan "I wanted to make a record that was stolen from other people's records"...
(1985), L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords (reissued by United Dairies, 1995) - Spiral InsanaSpiral InsanaSpiral Insana is an album by Nurse With Wound.In the book England's Hidden Reverse, author David Keenan describes the album as one of NWW's "most powerful records" but principal member Steven Stapleton advised Keenan that the making of "Spiral Insana" was particularly difficult...
(1986), Torso (rereleased on United Dairies, 1997) - Automating Volume One (1986), United Dairies
- A Missing Sense/Rasa with OrganumOrganumOrganum is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages. Depending on the mode and form of the chant, a supporting bass line may be sung on the same text, the melody may be followed in parallel motion , or a combination of...
(1986) - Scrag! (1987), United Dairies
- Drunk with the Old Man of the Mountains (1987)
- Nurse With Wound and The Hafler Trio Hit Again! with The Hafler Trio (1987), Staalplaat
- Alas the Madonna Does Not Function (1988), 12″ EP on United Dairies
- Soliloquy for LilithSoliloquy for LilithSoliloquy For Lilith is an album by Nurse With Wound.The album was recorded by Steven Stapleton and his wife Diana Rogerson in May 1988. The only sound source was a number of effects units which he had set up to operate in a feedback loop - there was no original input signal being processed, simply...
(1988), 3×LP set on Idle Hole (rereleased on 2×CD by United Dairies, 1993, on 3×CD in 2003 and finally, again on 3×CD by United Jnana, 2005) - Soliloquy for LilithSoliloquy for LilithSoliloquy For Lilith is an album by Nurse With Wound.The album was recorded by Steven Stapleton and his wife Diana Rogerson in May 1988. The only sound source was a number of effects units which he had set up to operate in a feedback loop - there was no original input signal being processed, simply...
[Parts 5 and 6] (1989) - A Sucked OrangeA Sucked OrangeA Sucked Orange is an album by Nurse With Wound, consisting of 29 mostly brief, unused pieces, elements or alternate versions of tracks from Nurse With Wound's recording career up to 1988...
(1990) - Thunder Perfect MindThunder Perfect Mind (Nurse With Wound album)Thunder Perfect Mind is an album by the English group Nurse With Wound. It is a "sister" album to Current 93's album Thunder Perfect Mind, released around the same time; some basic sounds and lyrics are shared but the overall sound of each record is very different...
(1992), Untied Diaries - Crumb DuckCrumb DuckCrumb Duck is the first collaboration between prolific Anglo-French indie band Stereolab and cult avant-garde unit Nurse With Wound, first released on 10" vinyl on the Clawfist label in 1993....
with StereolabStereolabStereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...
(1993), Clawfist, edition of 1450 (expanded reissue on United Dairies, 1997) - Rock 'n Roll Station (1994)
- Who Can I Turn to Stereo (1996)
- Acts of Senseless Beauty with Aranos (1997)
- Simple Headphone MindSimple Headphone MindSimple Headphone Mind is the second collaboration between Stereolab and Nurse With Wound. As with their first release, Crumb Duck, Stereolab recorded the basic track and then handed it over to Steven Stapleton to do with as he pleased...
with StereolabStereolabStereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...
(1997), Duophonic - An Awkward Pause (1999)
- The Swinging Reflective: Favourite Moments of Mutual Ecstasy (1999), collaborations 1980–1999, on United Dairies
- Alice the Goon (second edition) (2000), release with a bonus track of a 1996 vinyl-only issue of 500 copies
- Funeral Music for Perez Prado (2001), compilation featuring extended versions of previously-released tracks
- Man with the Woman Face (2002)
- Salt Marie Celeste (2003)
- She and Me Fall Together in Free Death (2003), Beta-lactam Ring Records
- The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums (2003), very limited edition on Beta-lactam Ring Records
- Chance Meeting of a Defective Tape Machine and a Migraine (2003), remixes
- Angry Eelectric Finger (2004), 5 releases—one disc each in collaboration with Jim O'Rourke, CyclobeCyclobeCyclobe are a music duo based in London, formed by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown. They make hallucinatory electronic soundscapes by mixing sampled and heavily synthesized sounds with acoustic arrangements for strings and woodwind. Their approach draws upon diverse forms, including acousmatic,...
, and IrrAppExt, a vinyl-only release of the source material, and a disc of outtakes on United Dairies; all other editions on Beta-lactam Ring Records) - Shipwreck Radio Volume OneShipwreck RadioShipwreck Radio is a series of albums by Nurse With Wound documenting their residency in Lofoten, Norway during June and July 2004. Invited to stay in the unofficial capital, fishing village Svolvær, Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter were commissioned to produce 3 radio broadcasts per week for...
(2004), ICR (special edition with extra disc Lofoten Deadhead) - Echo Poeme Sequence No. 2 (2005), United Jnana
- Shipwreck Radio Volume TwoShipwreck RadioShipwreck Radio is a series of albums by Nurse With Wound documenting their residency in Lofoten, Norway during June and July 2004. Invited to stay in the unofficial capital, fishing village Svolvær, Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter were commissioned to produce 3 radio broadcasts per week for...
(2005), ICR (special edition with extra disc Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun) - Soundpooling (2006), ICR (special edition with extra disc A Hand Job for the Laughing Policeman)
- Stereo Wastelands (2006), Beta-lactam Ring Records (edition of 500 CDs compiling previously unreleased mixes from Who Can I Turn to Stereo?)
- Rat Tapes One: An Accumulation of Discarded Musical Vermin 1983–2006 (2006)
- Shipwreck Radio: The Final BroadcastsShipwreck RadioShipwreck Radio is a series of albums by Nurse With Wound documenting their residency in Lofoten, Norway during June and July 2004. Invited to stay in the unofficial capital, fishing village Svolvær, Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter were commissioned to produce 3 radio broadcasts per week for...
(2006), ICR - Disconnected with FaustFaust (band)Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History:Faust...
(2007) - The Iron Soul of Nothing (2008) (second disc of the reissue of Sunn O)))Sunn O)))Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...
's album ØØ VoidØØ Void-Guest musicians:* Petra Haden - violin, vocals* Scott Reeder - bass guitar* Peter Stahl - vocals...
, this additional CD being a Nurse with Wound remix labeled "Sunn O)))Sunn O)))Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...
meets Nurse with Wound") - Huffin' Rag Blues (2008), United Dairies/Jnana
- The Surveillance Lounge (2009), United Dirter
- Space Music (2009), Beta-lactam Ring Records
- Paranoia in HiFi (2009), Dirtier Promotions (compilation featuring excerpts of previously-released tracks)
- Erroneous: A Selection of Errors (2010), colaberative work with German avantgardist Fritz Mueller and Italian industrialIndustrial musicIndustrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
band Larsen.
Selected compilation appearances
- "Nana or a Thing of Uncertain Nonsense" on The Elephant Table AlbumThe Elephant Table AlbumThe Elephant Table Album: a compilation of difficult music was a 1983 compilation album, released on Xtract Records. The double album was compiled by music journalist Dave Henderson following a series of articles by him in Sounds, the British music paper...
(1983) - "Think Jazz, Think Punk Attitude" and "Spooky Loop" on FoxtrotFoxtrot (compilation)Foxtrot benefit compilation release for John Balance's alcohol addiction. The album features tracks by Balance's close friends, including his group Coil and was released via their label Chalice....
(1998) - Brain in the WireBrain in the WireBrain In The Wire is a compilation by Brainwashed Recordings, which is a collection of mostly rare, unreleased alternate versions of songs by many influential groups that Brainwashed's website promotes hosting for...
- "Die, Flip or Go to India" on X-Rated: The Dark Files (2005)
A full list can be found on the NWW website, hosted by Brainwashed.com.
External links
- Official Website
- http://home.att.ne.jp/wood/grot/nww.html
- Beta-lactam Ring Records catalog NWW page