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Nurse With Wound

Nurse With Wound is the project of Steven Stapleton, started in London in 1978 with John Fothergill and Heman Pathak and, since 1981, effectively a solo venture with a changing cast of collaborators. The first album, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table and a Sewing Machine (1979), came with a list of obscure records that influenced it, and the Nurse With Wound list has been a map for explorers of strange music ever since. Stapleton's own music is surrealist collage: tape edits, found sounds, drones and voices assembled with a painter's eye and a taste for the absurd.

Nurse With Wound is the project of Steven Stapleton, started in London in 1978 with John Fothergill and Heman Pathak and, since 1981, effectively a solo venture with a changing cast of collaborators. The first album, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table and a Sewing Machine (1979), came with a list of obscure records that influenced it, and the Nurse With Wound list has been a map for explorers of strange music ever since. Stapleton's own music is surrealist collage: tape edits, found sounds, drones and voices assembled with a painter's eye and a taste for the absurd.

A Sucked Orange
*100 copies limited edition* Very, very broadly speaking, there are two kinds of Nurse With Wound albums: the sprawling, immersive, evolving drone-type recordings - think Soliloquy for Lilith, Salt Marie Celeste - and the wild, surreal freak-outs. A …
Shipwreck Radio Volume One (Seven Sonic Structures From Utvær)
2025 Repress This is the original double CD, which has long been out of print, remastered, with additional tracks made with the sounds recorded during the project. The album finds Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter spending time on Norway's lofoten Is…
She And Me Fall Together In Free Death
*2024 stock* The long awaited reissue of the legendary She and Me Fall Together In Free Death album by Nurse With Wound, with over 45 minutes extra material, most previously unreleased. Housed in a deluxe 2 CD digipak gloss heavy gauge, on United Dai…
ADN 40th Anniversary - 40 Years 40 Tracks
*2024 stock. 250 copies limited edition* In 2023 we wished to properly celebrate the 40th anniversary of ADN’s birth. So, we have contacted groups and musicians that stimulated our curiosity through these 40 years. Some of them are good friends of us…
Thunder Perfect Mind
Black vinyl, includes double sided poster. 3LPThe original release of Nurse with Wound's gargantuan "Thunder Perfect Mind" in 1992 coincided with that of Current 93's homonymous genre-defining album. Legend has it that the gnostic name initially appe…
A Topography of Lucid Confusion
Deluxe 2CD edition collecting expanded & remastered versions of the ‘Dark Drippings’ and ‘A Darker Shade Of Fat’ releases, two projects assembled by M. S. Waldron using his archive of NWW live recordings. The former is mainly a collection of unusual …
Gyllensköld, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg’s
** 2026 Stock ** * Silver & Black / White Vinyl. Metallic Gatefold sleeve. 200g 2LP. Augmented album * This 1983 period in which Gyllensköld was recorded was a fantastic time for the evolution of Steven Stapleton’s audio art. His collaborations with …
Huffin Rag Blues
Nurse With Wound is the main recording vehicle for British musician Steven Stapleton. Since 1978, with collaborators such as David Tibet (Current 93), John Balance (Coil), Colin Potter and Matt Waldron (Irr. App [Ext]), Nurse With Wound has released …
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