Nurse With Wound / Graham Bowers- RUPTURE.DLP RSD 2012 [sealed]

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Mar 24, 2014 Sold Date

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The records have been expertly mastered for vinyl and cut by Noel Summerville at 3345 Mastering,

The album arrives packaged in a beautiful gloss laminated gatefold sleeve, featuring artwork from both Babs Santini and Graham Bowers and a full color insert.

The pressing is is limited to 300 copies and these were created for Record Store Day 2012. The edition contains an insert, each one being a unique hand created piece of art, mounted on black fine art paper and individually signed and numbered by Steven Stapleton and Graham Bowers

I am hoping that people who are stopping by to read this know of 'The Caretaker' releases; if you know then you have a head start.....this is currently a vastly underrated item.....which will in time become immensely collectable as part of the NWW output.

This recording represents a "musical illustration" of the events occurring in the brain following a lethal stroke and in my view is a dramatic, chilling and emotional portrait.

Musically it does touch on similar influences as the rest of Steve Stapleton’s body of work. Bowers and Stapleton have crafted something unique that does not fit neatly into any categories, even amongst Nurse With Wound’s expanded horizons. This is draining, devastating and utterly compelling.

Listening to this from that of an enthusiastic experimental music listener reveals an impressive and moving synthesis of art, science and pathos. Concepts such as memory and disinhibition of neural networks are played out in the music; a warped sample of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the sound of children’s voices appear to represent the resurgence of memories in the minutes before death.

Towards the end of the album, various permutations of "My Blue Heaven" are played, gasped and hinted at. The protagonist/patient/spirit promises to see loved ones,whether living or dead, in their blue heaven. The effect is moving and unsettling,

I have always found Nurse With Wound’s music to be enthralling on a number of levels, I have been frightened, entertained, humoured and provoked and this release doesn't disappoint.

The weight of Rupture is crushing; this is not music to turn on, sit back and relax to. It is intrusive, captivating and mentally exhausting, but it is an experience that you will want to repeat time amd time again....

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