Nurse With Wound - An Awkward Pause

An Awkward Pause

Nurse With Wound

Available Formats No. of Tracks   Price Buy
Download Album (mp3) 18 tracks £13.99
Download Album (flac) 18 tracks £13.99
Download individual tracks N/A from £0.79

Reviews

from: Boomkat

Finally re-issued after being out of press for far far too long, 'An Awkward Pause' is one of Steven Stapleton's most well-loved albums, and now just to entice fans into essentially buying the same record twice it has been packaged up with a jam-packed second disc of exclusive bonus material.

The main album saw Stapleton in collaboration with David Tibet (who re-issues the record on his own Durtro/Jnana imprint), Christoph Heemann, Colin Potter and Petr Vastl and between them the group managed to put together an original and surprising album using unusual ethnic instruments and more familiar feeding back guitars and synthesizers.

What we end up with is five tracks which represent Stapleton's unique and influential vision remarkably well, while occasionally 'rocking out' (notably on 'Two Shaves and a Shine'), and the album as a whole is incredible involving.

Whether using abstract outré jazz sounds, avant rock drones or post-industrial grinding everything is rounded off perfectly and moulded into a 'beginners guide to NWW' if you like.

Interestingly the extra disc serves as an additional insight into the tracks as it features demos and early versions, some of which sound just as good if not better than the finished product.

Also for those of you who fancy trying your hand at rewiring 'Two Shaves and a Shine', Stapleton has kindly provided the track's component parts here for your remixing pleasure.

A marvellous package of a truly huge album - if only all re-issues were this lavishly treated...

Tracklisting

Download Album (UNITED JNANA 1921)
  1. Nurse With Wound - Intravenous
  2. Nurse With Wound - Two Shaves And A Shine (Concerto For Bouzouki And 3 Piece Rock Group In 93 Six Second Segments)
  3. Nurse With Wound - The Penis Fruit Loop
  4. Nurse With Wound - Lunar Cement Sidewalk
  5. Nurse With Wound - Mummer's Little Weeper
  6. Nurse With Wound - Mummer's Little Weeper (Kinky Whim Demo)
  7. Nurse With Wound - Intravenous (Unrefined Component No.1)
  8. Nurse With Wound - Disposition One
  9. Nurse With Wound - Intravenous (Unrefined Component No.2)
  10. Nurse With Wound - Disposition Two
  11. Nurse With Wound - Penis Fuit Loop (Bald And Beardless Version)
  12. Nurse With Wound - Intravenous (Plump Aerospheric Mix)
  13. Nurse With Wound - Disposition Three
  14. Nurse With Wound - Intravenous (Unrefined Component No.3)
  15. Nurse With Wound - Two Shaves And A Shine (Original Archaic Demo)
  16. Nurse With Wound - Two Shaves And A Shine (Ingredients)
  17. Nurse With Wound - Two Shaves And A Shine (Bastard Disco Version)
  18. Nurse With Wound - Mummer's Little Weeper (Mud Ooze Sloth Mix)