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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.

The Grave and Beautiful Name of Sadness
ICR is happy to release the CD version of the recent LP by Nurse With Wound. Comes in a digipack with an extra panel of artwork  & an additional track, 'Blind', a reworking from 'Homotopy To Marie'. Featuring two archive mixes of the original 1984 re…
Backside
** 2026 Stock ** 300 copies in Dark Crystal vinyl. The enigmatic sound architects of Nurse With Wound return with Backside, a haunting new studio album that bridges four decades of underground sonic archaeology. Released through Rotorelief in an exqu…
Tainted Creampuffs
Originally released on Beta-lactam Ring as just 25 CDR copies, this mutated voice recording nightmare has been reassembled and remastered by Colin Potter. Possibly the strangest Nurse release of all time.
Terms And Conditions Apply
Moving from chaotic big band absurdity to African-inspired polyrhythms, cold techno and smoky ambient passages, Nurse With Wound's essential compilation returns with new Babs Santini artwork. A disorienting patchwork that serves as both historical do…
Chance Meeting of a Defective Tape Machine and Migraine
2003 CD on United Durtro / Anomalous with an 'automatic' re-mix of the first NWW album by irr. app. (ext.) Matt Waldron.
To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl
Ultra rare first edition of 500 hand-numbered copies (this is 257/500) on United Dairies from 1980 of the second NWW LP, including the original LP-size insert with the essential "NWW list". Superb copy.
Merzbild Schwet
Very rare first edition of 500 hand-numbered copies (this is 205/500) on United Dairies from 1980 of the third NWW LP. Superb copy.
Ostranenie 1913
Cassette edition of NWW's 1983 LP with re-worked tracks from their 2nd and 3rd albums, manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.
Insect And Individual Silenced
Very rare first edition of 500 copies on United Dairies from 1981 of the fourth NWW LP, with original A4 insert. Superb copy.
Homotopy To Marie
Very rare first edition of 500 copies on United Dairies from 1982 of the fifth NWW LP, with original A4 insert. Superb copy.
Sylvie and Babs
Original 1988 remixed second edition on United Dairies with gatefold sleeve of the classic 1985 album. With a host of guests including David Jackman, David Tibet, Diana Rogerson, Edward Ka-Spel, John Balance, Graham Revell, Brian Lustmord, Foetus, Ro…
Spiral Insana
Original 1986 first edition on Torso of NWW's wonderful seventh album, featuring Robert Haigh, David Jackman and Chris Wallis.
Automating Volume One
Cassette edition of the 1986 NWW anthology album manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.
Automating Volume Two
Original 1987 cassette on RRRecords / United Dairies with remixes of pieces previously released in different forms, and completely different from the LP compilation with the same title released two years later.
Gyllenskold / Brained
Cassette compiling the two 1984 12" EP's by NWW manufactured and marketed by RRRecords in 1987 on behalf of United Dairies.
Scrag
Original 1987 cassette on RRRecords / United Dairies compiling odds and ends from the early years of NWW.
Drunk With The Old Man Of The Mountains
Ultra rare second very limited edition (25/50 copies?) with collage sleeve of the already very limited (100) 1987 LP, including an original photographic artwork by Steven Stapleton! With insert.
Soliloquy For Lilith (Parts 5 & 6)
1989 release on Idle Hole Records of the last two sides of the wonderful 1988 box set in a limited edition of 200 copies.
The Sisters Of Pataphysics
1989 compilation on Idle Hole Records of tracks from the first three classic NWW albums, released in a limited edition of 1000 copies.
Psilotripitaka
1990 re-issue of the first the first three classic NWW LP's plus an extra album with two early compilation tracks, released as a 4CD set in LP-size box, with original insert.
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