The Nurse With Wound List: 4

I think the addition of this one means that I only have one left to post. This is perhaps the most accessible of all of them.... except for perhaps "Crackle".... which is quite annoying really. Included on this, I am happy to report, is a track off the incredible "Alien Soundtracks" by Chrome and a groovy little ditty by The Pop Group.....

Enjoy!

Track Listing;

1		Urban Sax Part 3 - Urban Sax
		from 1977 LP Urban Sax
2		Don't Sell Your Dreams - The Pop Group
		from 1979 LP Y
3		Poptones - Public Image Ltd
		from 1979 LP Second Edition
4		Dragon Lines - Third Ear Band
		from 1969 LP Alchemy
5		Chromosome Damage - Chrome
		from the 1977 LP Alien Soundtracks
6		Life Stinks - Pere Ubu
		from 1978 LP Modern Dance
7		De Brug Gaat Open/Berliner Neustadtlament/Stradivarius - Michel Waisvisz
		from 1978 LP Crackle
8		Två Världar - Archimedes Badkar
		from 1976 LP Archimedes Badkar II

Get it HERE

Ardecore - San Cadoco (2010)

Here is another present from the mysterious "O". Ardecore is an Italian group who would fall under the category of "tradional folk" of their mother countries past. But this release has a bit of a rock edge which almost made me leave it off this blog. My thought is, if you can hear it on the radio... why bother with it here.

But it has a pleasant vibe to it. Perhaps even a "world" feel to the release....

Let me know what you think.

Track Listing CD1;

1		San Cadoco
2		Meravigliosamente
3		Non Si Può
4		Santa Gilda
5		Tentazione
6		Il Nuovo Giorno
7		Per Quella Lei Ci Muore
8		Gronge Meraviglia
9		Oggi È Domenica
10		SNessuno Sa Più Bene

Track Listing CD2;

1		Visione In Sogno Della Città Delle Meraviglie
2		Io De Sospiri
3		Vola, Vola
4		La Povera Cecilia
5		I Biondi Capelli
6		Sesta Visione, Il Libro Che Vola
7		Te Possino Da Tante Cortellate
8		Nina Viè Giù
		Get it HERE

The Nurse With Wound List:: 1

As the NWW List collections go... this one is epic. Obviously there is stuff here a lot of you (and me) know... but check out some of the surprises...

David Cunningham - Error System.... Is an absolutle bizarre idea put to music. Check this out (from the liner notes);

Error System: The players play a repeated phrase. As soon as one player makes a mistake that mistake is made the basis of his repetition unless it is modified by a further mistake. Thus each player proceeds at his own rate to change the sound in an uncontrollable manner. On no account should "mistakes" be made deliberately to introduce a change into a performance. In short...sustain your errors. The water piece and the guitar piece are analogous to this process. However the process is automatic here, an inherent quality to the machinery used. The numerical sequence used in Ecuador and Bolivia is: 11221111223332112222331112332233331122232 repeated three times. The last time, an extra 11 is tagged onto the end. Each number refers to a bar, repetitions of a specific number are uniform. Notated according to the Ecuador system, Venezuela is 11223344556677 etc. for each player except the musician supplying the constant pulse.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Great idea though!

Also, some great Jazz. Weird eh?

Don't forget... I have no idea if these are even the tracks that influenced the "List". None-the-less, they are artist featured on the list.

Track Listing;

1		Vom Himmel Hoch - Kraftwerk
		from 1970 LP Kraftwerk
2		Selection 5 - Boyd Rice
		from 1977 7" single Boyd Rice
3		Error System BAGFGAB - David Cunningham
		from the 1977 LP Grey Scale
4		Pollution - Franco Battiato
		from the 1972 LP Pollution
5		Mama Düül Und Ihre Sauerkrautband Spielt Auf - Amon Düül
		from the 1969 LP Psychedelic Underground
6		Nothing To Declare - Wolfgang Dauner
		from the 1970 LP Output
7		Bal Pour Un Rat Vivant - Komintern
		from the 1971 LP Le Bal Du Rat Mort
8		WhyYou Can't Eat Carrots - Faust
		from the 1971 LP Faust

Get it HERE

Lovac - Apes Of A Cold God (2010)

Here is a fun one from our friends at Soleilmoon Recordings. This one was also sent by "O". Lovac is a somewhat new band... well, actually they have one release on Douglas P. label under the name "Down In June".

"Apes Of A Cold God" is actually a quite good record. Combining this music with text fragments from Karl Marx, Antonin Artaud and Percy Bysshe Shelley your sure to find something you will agree with! No? Get over yourself.

Hey I got an idea, why not say "thank you" to "O" for sharing with us?!?!?!?

Track Listing;

1		Crkveno Zvono I
2		Murder
3		March Of Pride
4		Fiend
5		Filth Of A Paradise
6		Welcome
7		Apes Of A Cold God
8		Human/Race
9		Crkveno Zvono II
10		Spider/General
11		Pull The Trigger
12		I Spell B
13		Promet
14		City & Solitude
15		Visitors From China
16		War (Cause & Effect)
17		Cruel Ruler
18		Just Like Your Father
19		Crkveno Zvono III

Get it HERE

Kajkyt - Krst (2009)

How about a short break in the action between the Nurse With Wound List recordings. Yesterday in my email I got a gift from the incredibly handsome, elusive, and quite sexy "O". So... I thought I would start it off with a release by Slobodan Kajkut who is recording under the name of Kajkyt. I really don't know much about Slobodan but upon listening to the release I found it quite interesting. Here is the "Kajkyt" press release;

We´re glad to announce the first release of the new project "Kajkyt" of composer / musician Slobodan Kajkut for 19th of December 2009.

„Krst“ is a 75 minutes long dark electronic piece, combining minimal beats and atmospheric drones with brutal noise, accompanied by Byzantine influenced voice and choir.

The piece was created between 2005 and 2009 and has been mixed by Oktopus, mastermind of dark hip hop pioneers Dälek, at their Deadverse Studios.

The release comes as double LP box deluxe in a very limited edition.

Interestingly enough, I could only find bad reviews for this release. But since I enjoyed it, I guess they were all WRONG!!!!!!

Track Listing;

1		Part 1
2		Part 2
3		Part 3
4		Part 4

Get it HERE

The Nurse With Wound List:: 5

Again... some stuff you most certainly recognize... and some REALLY weird shit. Have patience... "Sheer Madness" is exactly that. And, another wonderful highlight is Théâtre du Chêne Noir who I discovered is still active today (check it HERE). Also... a quick search of the net found the very quirky Family Fodder release HERE.

A number of these acts are exactly that... an act, or a theatre. Of course their is some cool Krautrock, Acid Jazz, and a little bit of Punk.

Don't forget... I have no idea if these are even the tracks that influenced the "List". None-the-less, they are artist featured on the list.

Track Listing;

1		Face A - Bernard Vitet
		from 1972 LP La Guêpe
2		Afraid Of Being Bled By Leaches - Lemon Kittens
		from 1980 We Buy A Hammer For Daddy
3		Darling - Family Fodder
		from 1980 LP Monkey Banana Kitchen
4		Hortz Fur Dëhn Stekëhn West-Ïma Sürï Dondaï-Kobaïa Is De Hündïn - Magma
		from 1975 LP Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
5		La Vieillesse Et La Mort - Théâtre du Chêne Noir
		from 1971 LP Aurora
6		Heinäsirkat - Sperm
		from 1970 LP Shh! Heinäsirkat
7		Darling - Crass
		from 1980 LP Stations Of The Crass
8		Sheer Madness - Orchid Spangiafora
		From the 1979 Flee Past's Ape Elf

Get it HERE

The Nurse With Wound List: 2

At least two people asked for the rest of the series. So I reached in to the stereo cabinet (yes, I have a very 1980's looking stereo cabinet), reached around, and the first one I found was Number 2!

Number 2 has a couple of familar tracks (Throbbing Gristle and Posion Girls) as well as the bizarre jazz and noise artists from the 1970's.

Are you still entertained?

Don't forget my caveat; I have no idea if these are even the tracks that influenced the "List". None-the-less, they are artist featured on the list.

Track Listing;

1		Jump Mama Jump - Poison Girls
		from 1979 12" single Hex
2		Maggot Death Live At Rat Club - Throbbing Gristle
		from 1977 The Second Annual Report
3		Abricot - Arcane V
		from 1978 LP Marron Dingue
4		Fesomies Urbanes - Companyia Elèctrica Dharma
		from 1975 LP Diumenge
5		Tunnel 4, Red Noise - Patrick Vian
		from 1976 LP Bruits Et Temps Analogues
6		Hitler Was A Vegetarian - The Residents
		from 1969 LP The Third Reich 'N' Roll
7		Amboss - Ash Ra Tempel
		from 1971 LP Ash Ra Tempel
8		Et Terre - Verto
		From the 1976 LP Krig / Volubilis
9		Uzzek Of Rigel IV - Eiliff
		from 1971 LP Eiliff

Get it HERE

Satan’s Tastemakers Episode #4

If you haven't stopped by Satan's Tastemakers Podcast, you are missing an awesome opportunity to find new and FREE musick! Here's the write up on this weeks show

Satan’s Tastemakers, snuffled out and brought to you by the truffle pigs of free digital music P. Emerson Williams and TheeBradMiller.

This edition was gathered during a foray into the darkest woods of electronic, experimental and noise releases of the Bleak Label from Austria and the long-running CyberfArts label out of the Netherlands. We will hear from CyberfArts mastermind and the artist behind PAGAN GADGET, Dead Skull, Skattor Minox and many, many more Ferenc Teglas AKA DJ Vrhovny and Bleak label CEO Bernard Hansbauer.

Check it out HERE

The Nurse With Wound List: 6

The Nurse With Wound List. Are you familiar with it? Originally this list was featured on the first Nurse With Wound LP, "Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella". Since it's publishing the list has grown as a guide for would be collectors and purveyors ov the odd. Here is a wonderful write up on the list.;

To collectors of unusual music this list is legendary. It contains the found gems of obsessive collector [4] and musician [2] Steven Stapleton along with early NWW member John Fothergill. The List was originally included with Nurse With Wound's first two albums but was later expaned by the Freeman Brothers in their "The Audion Guide to Nurse With Wound" [5,6].

In addition to being a list of some of the most 'out music' artists around, it also is a list of the major influences of Nurse With Wound (as well as the Unitied Dairies label). The emphasis of this website is on the influence aspect. External links are provided (for the labels as well as the artists) for those wishing to explore them in a wider context.

Because the list only gives the artist names and not specific albums there is some debate over what the list refers to. Collector who blindly buy any album by the artists will end up with more than a few mediocre releases. My annotated list seeks to give a shortlist of recordings by each artists that most influenced their inclusion on the NWW list.
http://tgk.konshak.org/nww/start.html

A couple of years back I decided to investigate further. Some of the artist I was familiar with, others were news to me. I assembled a series of CDs for listening to during my commute. Not sure how many I ended up with. This is the 6th in the series.

The musick here-within is an eclectic group. You will find the complex hard progressive rock of Food Brain, the amazing pioneers of Krautrock Gila, early electronica and tape delay with Terry Riley, the free jazz improvisation of Iskra 1903, the more familar Kautrock of Neu!, the space rock of Arzachel, the psychedelic and expiermental Brave New World, the weird Robert Wyatt (and I mean that as a positive way), and just the plain out their sensibilities ov the obscure Sally Smmit And Her Musicians.

Keep in mind, I have no idea if these are even the tracks that influenced the "List". None-the-less, they are artist featured on the list. If there is interest, I will post other mixes.... Enjoy... It's a trippy, jazzy, melodic, nosiey journey.

Track Listing;

1		Clock - Food Brain
		from 1970 LP Social Gathering
2		Kollaps - Gila
		from 1971 LP Gila
3		A Rainbow In Curved Air - Terry Riley
		from 1971 LP A Rainbow In Curved Air
4		Improvisation 5018 - Iskra 1903
		from 1972 LP Iskra 1903
5		Hallogallo
		from 1972 LP Neu!
6		Metampsychosis - Arzachel
		from 1969 LP Arzachel
7		Lenna - Brave New World
		from 1972 LP Brave New World (Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley)
8		To The Old World (Thank You For The Use Of Your Body, Goodbye) - Robert Wyatt
		From the 1970 LP The End Of An Ear
9		Part One (edit) - Sally Smmit And Her Musicians
		from 1979 LP Hangahar

Get it HERE

NEW TBM

NEW TBM!! Created while watching "La saga de los Dracula".

You can find it HERE.

For Kings And Queens - Marchantiophyta (2010)

Here is an ambient drone thing that won't bore your socks off. For King And Queens is an outfit out of Germany. Their site credits the band as a duo consisting of the ambiguous Mr. J and Mrs. B. Here is what they had to say about the release Marchantiophyta;

The Marchantiophyta is a psychedelic travel. It's a journey to our inner state of mind. The combinations of experimental and conventional sounds create massive clouds of sinister atmospheres. The layered textures increase the tensions of exotic darkness. The sinister timbres are seductive and jarring. The music deeply penetrates into our subconsciousness and can reveal internal pictures. As sound springs served admissions from the rain forest, a coffeemaker, a glas of water, little tubes, contactmics, guitar, various synthesizers and some effects.

Check them out at their web site
www.forkingsandqueens.de

Track Listing;

1		Is There A Meaning To Music
2		I Knew Why The Caged Bird Sings

Get it HERE

Salakapakka Sound System - Eyewitness Protection Program (2011)

God I love Salakapakka Sound System! Here is their/his latest endeavor. It is featured on the label "SPETTRO". Never heard of the label, but a look over their site looks like it will be worth quite a few trips back!

Check SPETTRO HERE!

Here is write up on the release from SPETTRO.

"Eyewitness protection program is a compilation of tracks made in 2010 which did not fit or did not find place in other releases of that year. They represent a variety of Salakapakka Sound System sound: from dark & dirty ambient to guitar improvisation and pure noise with elements of thrash metal and even hardcore techno. This time Salakapakka Sound System used digital and analog synths, found sounds, samples, guitar & found objects."

So, download it... say thank you (you won't), support SPETTRO (you should).

Track Listing;

1		The Last Rays Of The Dying Sun
2		##O++
3		Nobel Art Of White Slavery 1
4		Heatwave
5		Nobel Art Of White Slavery 2
6		Moth Man
7		World... Is A Pink Fairytale/Guitar Piece #5

Get it HERE

Best Of 2010

I normally post a best of the year post at the end of the year. This year I was asked to participate in a community "Best of". It's on a web site that's not in English. But there are a whole bunch of different lists on it. Scroll through... take a look at mine, take a look at everyone eleses.... let me know what you think!

READ IT HERE

P.S. Bingo - Beware (Remastered) (1986)

Originally released in 1986 as a split 90 minute cassete with If, Bwana and P.S. Bingo. Remastered and bestowed upon us by the saintly Peter. The original release was on Sound Of Pig (SOP24). This remastered verison clocks in at a little over 45 minutes of cool noise! Here is what Peter said:

The music began as a long jam in Tucson by me and a young gutter punk named John Langford (not the well-known Jon Langford of Mekons/Three Johns fame, obviously) using toy instruments and percussion recorded on an ancient reel-to-reel deck. Later, in San Diego, assisted by sometime PS Bingo member Joel Nowak, I slowed down the tape and layered loops and other recordings on top, as well as adding about 10 minutes of new material for the Sound of Pig Music release. The master I sent Al Margolis for the release was mastered at a really low level for some reason... most likely due to my general technical ineptness. Recently, I digitized the master and manipulated the EQ for a much fuller, louder sound. It's probably about 30 minutes too long, but is not without its charms.

The download comes with revamped cover art and credits. Don't forget to say thanks!

Track Listing;

1

Beware

Get it HERE

SLEEPCHAMBER - VINYL VENMON VIXEN (2011)

For the month of January Inner-X-Musick is giving away the new track "Vinyl Venom Vixen"! Three versions of it actually! It is located at their "Bandcamp" site. Here is the write up;

FREE SLEEPCHAMBER SINGLE!! Free Download available as a free download from Jan 1st to Jan 31 2011. Contains 3 versions of Vinyl Venom Vixen (off the upcoming new CD SHEMHAMFORASH due out spring 2011). Only available during the month of January 2011!

Track Listing;

1		Vinyl Venom Vixen #1
2		Vinyl Venom Vixen #2
3		CeremonialJam (Live Mix)
1		Vinyl Venom Vixen (WBRS Soundcheck)

Get it HERE