Nurse With Wound
Nurse With Wound or NWW is a British experimental music band, formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. In 1979 Heman left the group, and in 1981 it effectly became a solo project of Steven Stapleton, with a variety of assisting musicians over the years.
Nurse With Wound or NWW is a British experimental music band, formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. In 1979 Heman left the group, and in 1981 it effectly became a solo project of Steven Stapleton, with a variety of assisting musicians over the years.
Salt Marie Celeste – Salt
2023 Restock. A welcome re-release, as an expanded version, of one of Nurse With Wound’s most notable albums. Originally recorded in 2002 by Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter, the piece ‘Salt’ was a limited edition release to accompany an exhibition of Stapleton’s artwork at The Horse Hospital in London. The following year ‘Salt Marie Celeste’ was released as a single 61 minute long piece of droning atmospheric sound that manages to be both minimal and maximal at the same time. A parade of stran…
In Fractured SIlence
Tip! Have you heard of the Nurse With Wound List? If you are a fan of creative-experimental-unlikely music, certainly. You would therefore be aware that amongst the recommendations that Steven Stapleton slipped into the first album of his group Nurse With Wound, were to be found a few restless frogs: Jef Gilson, Luc Ferrari, Jacques Thollot, Urban Sax, Horde Catalytique and last… but not least Jean-Jacques Birgé and Francis Gorgé. Stapleton admired their album Défense de. The two Frenchmen just …
Brained By Falling Masonry/Cooloorta Moon
Tip! It could be argued that Brained and Cooloorta are the definitive Nurse With Wound E.Ps. Both classic and timeless fan favourites appear for the first time together on one single album. Both E.Ps marked a distinctive change in the NWW sound. Brained from 1984 showcases NWW at their mid 80’s finest. The relentless churning and uncompromising music of Brained by Falling Masonry is complimented by the eccentric mania of JG Thirlwell’s vocals. A Short Dip in Glory Hole takes us into the murky de…
Alice The Goon
Limited edition of 500 copies, no repress. A new NWW mutation, with some of the most hauntingly evocative pieces in Steven Stapleton's catalogue, as striking and unusual as anything else Nurse With Wound has produced. A coherent sampler of Nurse With Wound’s range of dark and humorous that includes a full side of “Funeral Music For Perez Prado" on vinyl for the first time, the masterpiece "(I Don’t Want to Have ) Easy Listening Nightmares" from "Alice the Goon", and a a remix/rework of this tra…
Man With The Woman Face
Originally released on CD and 12" by United Dairies in 2002, the out-of-print sound source is finally reissued by Colin Potter's ICR. An important NWW-related work with strange sounds.
The Surveillance Lounge
Longtime collaborators NWW and Aranos align their visions to a deeply psychedelic, minimalist focus on their self-released 2013 double album. Also considered relative neighbours on the rugged West Coast of Ireland, Nurse With Wound and multi-instrumentalist Aranos here reprise a creative relationship ongoing since 1997’s ‘Acts of Senseless Beauty’, with just shy of 2 hours of metaphysical drift; departing with the anaesthetising atmospheres and creepy piano of ‘Letter From Torpor (Draft)’, and …
The Ladies Home Tickler And Other Exotic Devices
This expanded collection is the definitive version of The Ladies Home Tickler. An essential historical document for the new and lifelong Nurse With Wound follower. Classic tape cut ups, radio sludge, surrealism and abstract chaos. The birth of NWW, a project that is now in its 5th decade.
Acts Of Senseless Beauty / Santoor Lena Bicycle
Re-issue of wonderful Nurse With Wound/Aranos collaboration, 'Acts Of Senseless Beauty/Santoor Lena Bicycle'.Available as a 2 CD set this release features new artwork by Steven.Includes an extra bonus track taken from the LP release of SANTOOR which was previously unreleased on CD.
Deadlined
The unreleased sound source recorded in 2019 has been turned into a work! Sound source inspired by the book ‘Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death’ by Otto Dor Kulka, who describes his boyhood in Auschwitz.
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. Thanks to Colin Potter and Andrew Liles for their help and contributions.
The collage work of Babs Santini printed on the entire 6-panel digip…
Spaced Muzak
Steven Stapleton, Andrew Liles, and Colin Potter present a masterpiece of bottomlessly deep cosmic sound, and a newly added concert version recorded by vibraphonist Timo Van Ljuik.
Space Musik was officially commissioned by the Melbourne Planetarium 'Science In The Dark' series 2009. This is a remastered version of the original plus three previously unreleased tracks.
Amazing 6-panel digipack with artwork by Babs Santini.
The Continuous Accident
*300 copies limited edition* Reissued in remastered & expanded version! The second of 3 limited custom boxset releases of rare and esoteric Nurse With Wound material, each containing 10 prints of album miniatures, exclusive stickers, signing card and badge. Nefarious II features ‘The Continuous Accident’ and ‘Circumventing Angels’, a previously unreleased radio broadcast.Originally published on CD-R in limited edition of 50 copies by United Dairies in 2008, the rare title "The Continuous Acciden…
The Devil's Interval (Alienation)
A visionary artefact from the mind of Steven Stapleton under the guise of Nurse With Wound, drawing some of the best of the project's recent output back into the light, Vasopressin delivers the first ever vinyl edition of "The Devil's Interval (Alienation)", comprising two stunning works of minimal, atmospheric experimentalism, that stand among the most striking and immersive to ever have been created by the project. A stunning and radical rethinking of the terms of ambient music, responding to …
Alas The Madonna Does Not Function
Tip! 1988 saw the release of several timeless and remarkable EPs from Nurse With Wound, one of those classics is Alas the Madonna Does Not Function. Madonna in some respect was a turning point for NWW. It’s a record that whilst unmistakably retaining that ineffable NWW character brought rhythmic and almost ‘musical’ elements into play. Madonna could be seen along with the Soresucker and Cooloorta Moon EPs as the bridge between the old and the new, the natural precursors to Thunder Perfect Mind a…
La Mandragore (Book+CD)
"When it became known that the Queen had given birth to a frog, there was consternation at court; the ladies of the palace remained mute, and only sewn mouths and heartbroken looks were exchanged in the high halls... If the tale does not give much for our frog, the queen will not be able to mourn him, which will lead her to imagine and then live terrible experiences.
The only disciple of Barbey d'Aurevilly wrote Rémy de Gourmont by Jean Lorrain (1855-1906). A decadent dandy, an ardent erotomania…
The Ladies Home Tickler And Other Exotic Devices
* Red with black splatters. Gatefold Cover * An essential historical document for the new and lifelong Nurse With Wound follower. Classic tape cut-ups, radio sludge, surrealism, and abstract chaos. The birth of NWW, a project that is now in its fifth decade. Recorded back in 1980, this expanded collection is the definitive version of The Ladies Home Tickler, originally released in 1993. The NWW line-up for these recordings was: Steven Stapleton - record player, cassette machine, noise; Jim Thirl…
Lumb's Sister
* Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl. Gatefold sleeve including a 62x62 cm double-side printed poster * Nurse with Wound's Lumb's Sister, newly remastered from the original analog tapes by Denis Blackham. "This music was originally conceived as raw material for the film project Lumb's Sister by Chris Wallis. During the long evolution of his movie, Chris decided to use alternative source sounds and subsequently none of these pieces ever made it onto the completed film. Aw, shucks." Stephen Stap…
Du Suicide / The Hovels Of The Rich Or The Rigid Digit
What suicidal man has ever called on his readers to 'rush out of the circus' better than Alphonse Rabbe? It took the writer that he was - historian and journalist, too - to end his life before his only "real" book, Album d'un pessimiste, was published, thanks to the efforts of his nephew Lucien.The exaltation and licentiousness of the excerpt reprinted here were made for Nurse With Wound. The CD included in Du Suicide is thus the tenth collaboration of Steven Stapleton and Lenka lente's project.
Opium Cabaret
Contains the full Opium Cabaret album plus an additional 40 minutes previously unreleased studio material. Housed in deluxe full colour digipack with new art by Santini.
Gyllensköld, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg’s
* Art Book CD – Silver Collection – augmented album Deluxe Art Book cd of 24 pages sewn – All artworks by Babs Santini * This 1983 period in which Gyllensköld was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton’s audio art. His collaborations with Diana Rogerson, Robert Haigh (Sema), David Tibet, and Thirlwell around this time elicited some of the most exciting work Nurse With Wound had yet recorded. Listen to this material and compare it to Chance Meeting and it becomes cle…
To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl
Following on the footsteps of Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table, To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl was Nurse With Wound's second album and shows the group refining itself from the debut and adding a lot more dynamics. The record starts off with the very short Umbrella Link, really just some guitar riffing from engineer Nicky Rodgers as a concession for NWW. to use his recording studio, before segueing into the side-long She Alone Hole and Open.Along with the clattering and clanking percussion…