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.
Purveyors of sinister whimsy to the wretched.
NOTE: DO NOT ADD ANY ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THIS GROUP! Steven Stapleton is the only current permanent member of the group. All other artists who are "members" of Nurse With Wound for a particular release should be listed in the Extra Artist field on the release.
A loose experimental project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, Nurse With Wound has explored abstract music -- influenced by Krautrock, freewheeling jazz improvisation, and Throbbing Gristle but including a heavy debt to surrealists Dali and Lautr�amont -- with an overpowering release schedule of limited-edition albums and EPs. Stapleton worked with an ever-changing list of collaborators during the early years of Nurse With Wound, though Current 93's David Tibet has been the only frequent recording companion during the 1980s and '90s. Nurse With Wound's first three albums (Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, To the Quiet Man From a Tiny Girl, and Merzbild Schwet) reflect a naked, minimalist slant with long periods of quiet suddenly interrupted by guitar chords inspired by the avant-garde wing of psychedelia/jazz-rock, chains, music boxes, and found-sound recordings. By the early '80s, Stapleton had begun to incorporate noisy, abrasive rhythms that put him more in line with contemporary EBM masters like Skinny Puppy and SPK. Though Stapleton continued his surrealist slant, he often moved back to more empty recordings. These works -- beginning with Soliloquy for Lilith in 1988 -- came to light in the context of the growing ambient/electronic movement, however, putting Nurse With Wound squarely in line with music trends for the first time. Stapleton recorded two split-singles with Stereolab during 1995, and continued his hectic, uncompromised release schedule from his base in Southern Ireland. In 2005 the double CD compilation Livin' Fear of James Last offered an overview of their output. That same year the 2CD compilation Judas as Black Moth was released through the Sanctuary label. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide (from mp3.com)
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