Your Favorite Nurse With Wound Albums

[Karnos]

Well, I finally had the chance of listening to Mnortham's "Breathing Towers", courtesy of a friend of mine who has one of the very limited copies of said album. All I can say is that, Mr. Northam, seeing the unavailability of the CD, you'll have to forgive me, but I had no alternative but to burn me a copy of it... it's that good.

The whole of it is a single 20-something minutes track; it starts faintly and weak, but in no time develops into a raging behemoth of reverberant sound; it's difficult to believe that little to no tampering was made to the original output, other than some slight modifications necessary for the process of digitalizing the sound. "Breathing Towers" reminds me somewhat of "Black Sun" in Boyd Rice's "Children of the Black Sun"; A single note played uninterrupted by a horn growing in intensity, other instruments (strings, drums) start adding up playing the same note until all of it grows into a crescendo... that's what Breathing Towers sounds like, but with nature's own input.

Pretty amazing stuff Michael Northam cooked with this CD.

[SwansSoilMe/SwansSaveMe]

Rock 'n Roll Station

The pieces he did with Tibet singing on Octopus.

Alice the Goon

I only have one or two more, including Spiral Insana.

[The Silent One]

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The pieces he did with Tibet singing on Octopus.

Musical Pumpkin Cottage, as it was known in the original version? Excellent stuff. Got that creepy pseudo-jazz vibe that is characteristic of a lot of Stapleton's work, especially with David Tibet.

[beakripped]

The Insect and Individual Silenced resissue arrivd in my mailbox last week. What a great album! Don't quite understand why Stapleton destroyed the master tapes; he's released plenty of terrible albums, singles and compilation tracks since then.

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[The Silent One]

Quote Originally Posted by beakripped

The Insect and Individual Silenced resissue arrivd in my mailbox last week. What a great album! Don't quite understand why Stapleton destroyed the master tapes; he's released plenty of terrible albums, singles and compilation tracks since then. .

Perhaps a symbolic gesture to separate his current self from when he moonlighted with Whitehouse (a band I never could take seriously). Then again, he didn't destroy the Merzbild Schwet masters... I think he just isn't fond of that particular album, even just the way it was mixed...

[Laurent Barabba]

Well...so, let's go for my first post on this very interesting website.
My two favorite albums of NWW are, without hesitation:
1) Soliloquy for Lilith.
2) Homotopy to Mary.

[Severini]

Well, thanks to bandcamp one can listen to "Breathing Towers" at the artist page.Worth the 3.33 is being sold for the FLAC file.


breathing towers | michael northam

[waffles]

Thunder Perfect Mind

[shivering]

There is so much to love about NWW (and Coil, C93), but these are the ones to which I always come back:

Soliloquy for Lilith
Spiral Insana
Thunder Perfect Mind
Salt Marie Celeste

And these collabs:

The Sadness of Things (as Stapleton & Tibet)
Simple Headphone Mind (with Stereolab)
Bright Yellow Moon/Purtle (as NWW & C93)

[shivering]

This link might help for the undecided:

Nurse With Wound