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A
loose experimental project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton,
Nurse With Wound has explored abstract music -- influenced by
Krautrock, freewheeling jazz improvisation, and Throbbing Gristle
but including a heavy debt to surrealists Dali and Lautréamont
-- with an overpowering release schedule of limited-edition
albums and EPs. Stapleton worked with an ever-changing list
of collaborators during the early years of Nurse With Wound,
though Current 93's David Tibet has been the only frequent recording
companion during the 1980s and '90s. Nurse With Wound's first
three albums (Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing
Machine and an Umbrella, To the Quiet Man From a Tiny Girl,
and Merzbild Schwet) reflect a naked, minimalist slant with
long periods of quiet suddenly interrupted by guitar chords
inspired by the avant-garde wing of psychedelia/jazz-rock, chains,
music boxes, and found-sound recordings. By the early '80s,
Stapleton had begun to incorporate noisy, abrasive rhythms that
put him more in line with contemporary EBM masters like Skinny
Puppy and SPK. Though Stapleton continued his surrealist slant,
he often moved back to more empty recordings. These works --
beginning with Soliloquy for Lilith in 1988 -- came to light
in the context of the growing ambient/electronic movement, however,
putting Nurse With Wound squarely in line with music trends
for the first time. Stapleton recorded two split-singles with
Stereolab during 1995, and continued his hectic, uncompromised
release schedule from his base in Southern Ireland.
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Natal Moonies
United Jnana
2006 |
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