Nurse With Wound « Bar Maldoror » vinyl 2LP
Reference : ROTOR0080
Format: vinyl 2xLP
Label: Rotorelief Records (France)
Pre-order release : 1st March 2023
shipping date : 15th March 2023
The long-running and infamous project known as Nurse With Wound — essentially
Steven Stapleton joined by a rotating cast of characters — mixes the overly serious
chin-scratching of the contemporary avant-garde with a healthy dose of absurdist
humour and wit. Often unfortunately branded with the industrial’s tag, Stapleton’s
music actually reflects elements of musique concrète, ambient and free improvisation
juxtaposed against more traditional forms. No one pigeonhole can adequately describe
this diverse and immense catalogue: only by diving in can one truly appreciate the
varied sonic possibilities of Stapleton’s unfettered imagination. He’s that weird, and he’s that good.
In the mid 1980s, Nurse With Wound existed as a live band for only eight shows, of
which only five were in front of an actual audience. Live at Bar Maldoror, released in
1991, documents these various live incarnations and makes up the first CD of this two-
disc set. Having been remastered by Andrew Liles, the diverse and lengthy pieces
(which were actually recorded in disparate locales, none of which are named Bar
Maldoror) sound rather contemporary. Sparse percussion, tape manipulation, loops,
noise, dark drones, improvised semi-musical instrumentation and strangled glossolalia
all expose the many facets of Stapleton’s oeuvre.
In 2023, as part of the silver editions, Rotorelief records released Bar Maldoror as a double vinyl album, a luxurious Gatefold with 4 panels of artwork by Babs Santini ; a 24-page art book of unpublished works by Babs Santini, with 2 CDs, will be published later this year to follow the silver editions of the previous CD books.
TRACKS
SIDE A
A 1. HYMN FOR KONORI 12:08
A 2. SHATTERIN’ MAN FALLING 8:28
SIDE B
B 1. MANDRAKE MEMORIAL 10:14
B 2. STONED AGE 12:52
SIDE C
C 1. TICKLING THAT GREAT PUDARKUS IN THE SKY 16:24
C 2. PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND 4:38
SIDE D
D 1. BAGPIPE GESTATION 10:31
D 2. SCISSORS, RADIO, BONGO AND BELL 10:56
