NWW - Automating

If Salvador Dali or Hans Bellmer, to name a few, wanted to achieve a surrealist sound painting, be certain they would kill for the talents of one and only Steven Stapleton.

Nurse With Wound's, err, 'music' works on equal terms in a strange cartoon-ish environment (where you'll very possibly find Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse on serious cocaine hook) or in an abstract bordello where fat women and ham win anorexic beauty contests. Of course, everything is covered in additional blood, milk, religion and honey - black and grey always included.

Albums' title-chosen phrases and cover art alone are worth possession of Nurse With Wound's material, but it's their incredibly absurd music that scores additionally to any listener. Stapleton's fascinations with surreal and esoteric provide a funny morbid canvas - it will either frustrate or fascinate. But there is one element that holds both parties in its grip; astonishing dark humour, hard to ignore, sometimes even harder to get.

Effective though, after giving it all, what we'd like to call
a 'proper listen'... or a proper laugh.
Crijevo, Jan 12, 2009


Automating One CD 1986/2001


Duelling Banjos »Un-Natural Aesthetics«
from Hoisting The Black Flag (UD 06),The Ladies Home Tickler (UD 00),The Swinging Reflective (UD 069),Psilotripitaka (UD 0134)

Stick That Chick & Feel My Steel Through Your Last Meal
from The Fight Is On (LAY 10)

Nana Or A Thing Of Uncommon Nonsense
from The Elephant Table Album (XX 001)

Fashioned To A Device Behind A Tree
from Fur Ilse Koch (WDC 881021),Mi-Mort 3 (Mi-Mort 3)

I Was No Longer His Dominant
from An Afflicted Man's Musica Box (UD 012),Mi-Mort 3 (Mi-Mort 3)

Ciconia
from Masse Mensch (SLP 001)

Automating (Again)- CD Only
from Born Out Of Dreams (LP, Comp, Ltd)




Automating Two CD 1989/2002


The Strange Play Of The Mouth
from Rising From The Red Sand 1 (1982)

Elderly Man River / Dance Of Fools
from Devastate To Liberate (1985)

Lonely Poisonous Mushroom
from Freedom In A Vacuum (1987)

Human Human Human (with Organum)
from The Portable Altamont (1991)
Lea Tantaaria

New Dress (CD Only)
from A Bead To A Small Mouth (Comp)1989
identical to "A New Dress (Remix)" from Crumb Duck [UD059]


First version of the NWW Automating Vol 2 compilation released by United Dairies on cassette.(1987) This version is radically different from subsequent LP and CD versions. There are no track titles, and on the first side, all the music is mixed together into one long piece. In addition, the mixes of the tracks that appear are in most cases unique to this release.*Anyone have a link to this pls.*

Side A includes remixes of "The Cockroach Of Del Monte" and "Dance Of Fools", as well as other material.
Side B consists of a remix of "Lonely Poisonous Mushroom", "The Strange Play Of The Mouth" and an excerpt from "Lea Tantaaria" based on the painting by Adolf Wölfi and renamed to "Wolfi" on the CD edition.



Automating Volume Three 2010


1 Nurse With Wound - I Gan Noo Wha Ma Organ's Gan 1:14
from 'Sound Cosmodel', 1984
2 Nurse With Wound - Antacid Cocamotive 93 3:54
from 'Three Minute Symphony', 1984
3 Nurse With Wound - Scissors, Radio, Bongo And Bell 10:57
from 'Ohren Des Kaiser Hirohito 1','Ohren Des Kaiser Hirohito 2' 1993
4 Nurse With Wound - Angle 5:19
from 'Succour 1','Succour 2' 1996
5 Nurse With Wound - Beetle Crawls Across My Back 6:20
from '50 Years Of Sunshine 1', '50 Years Of Sunshine 2'1993
6 Nurse With Wound - Transcribe And Dictate (Heavy Trad) 0:40
from 'Four Years In 30 Seconds', 1997
7 Nurse With Wound - Window Of Possible Organic Development 9:00
from 'Terra Serpentes', 1997
8 Nurse With Wound - Ubu Noir 3:49
from 'Not Alone 4', 2006
9 NWW / Cadaverous Condition - Nosedive 6:20
from Cadaverous Condition's 'Destroying The Night Sky', 2008
10 NWW / The Sonic Catering Band - Hindu Monastery Breakfast 8:58
from The Sonic Catering Band's 'Artificial Additives', 2001

Artwork By [Artwork & Ridiculous Injuries] - Babs Santini
Artwork By [Layout] - M S Waldron
Mastered By - M S Waldron


Automating Volume Four


01 nit-pick
from Seven Seals

02 angle
from Succour cd2

03 spooky loop
04 bone frequency
05 think jazz, think punk attitude
from Foxtrot

06 window of possible organic development
from Terra Serpentes

07 transcribe and dictate (heavy trad)
08 (dart yvaeh) etatcid dna ebircsnart
from Four Years in 30 Seconds

09 disintegrate 36 page 00
10 walking like shadow ii
11 disintegrate 19 page 03
12 nights ii
from Purtle

13 Old man vox albation
download from from www.burrenuniversality.com/nww (now discontinued).
appears to have been made during the recording of Bright Yellow Moon / Purtle. The musicians on it are David Tibet: Vocals; Steven Stapleton: Mix and Sound Manipulation; Michael Cashmore: Guitar; Chris Wallis: Sitar.
According to Brian Conniffe, "Burrenuniversality.com was set up by the Irish government, in order to provide every home in the Burren area of County Clare, Ireland, with an internet connection and computers. The reason is mainly to do with the very isolated nature of that part of Ireland. Stapleton lives there, so that's why that stuff is up there. I wouldn't count on it turning into any sort of substantial website, however." Brainwashed.com




Automating Volume Five


01 optical illusion pad
02 subterranean zappa blues
03 my saxy baby
04 phantom limb
from B side LP
Second Pirate Session


05 intravenous
06 two shaves and a shine
07 mummer's little weeper
08 a shoefly debris situation
09 a shoefly debris situation 2
from An Awkward Pause 1 An Awkward Pause 2

10 pfl (deambulation mix)
from Having Fun With The Prince Of Darkness 7"
and as a d/load in 2001 from from www.burrenuniversality.com/nww (now discontinued).



Automating Volume Six


01 call me bunny
from Cadavres Exquis

02 i gan noo wha ma organs gan
from Sound Cosmodel

03 it just ain't so (not a cole porter song...)
from Voices, Notes, Noise

04 our passions are inclined
from European Square Vol 1.

05 zappo - leon vii
from Cadavres Exquis

06 ship of the dead (f_ear this version)
from F/Ear This! - A Collection Of Unheard Music, Unwritten Words And Unseen Images Inspired By Fear.

07 the demon flower
08 relax
09 schizo (ext)
10 two hot pricks
11 young model
from The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record

12 Beetle crawls across my back
from Fifty Years Of Sunshine

13 The Purple Ache
from Brain Not In The Wire Disc X

14 die, flip or go to india (the slightly green librarian mix)
from Orang-Utan




Automating Vol. 7

01 Pre-menstrual music for merry maidens
from Englands Hidden Reverse

02 pfl (deambulation mix)
from The Wire Tapper Six

03 Tibet
from Fatal Encounter [Jacques Berrocal]

04 Ubu Noir
from Not Alone

05 Dead Side Of The Moon
from Aspiring To An Empty Gesture Vol. 1 [Irr. App. (Ext.)]

06 Nosedive
from Destroying The Night Sky [Cadaverous Condition]

07 Hindu monastery breakfast
from Artificial Additives [Sonic Catering Band]

08 Ajraxin - No Focus
from Madam I'm Adam Remixes [Pekka Airiksinen]





Automating Vol. 8


01 Moaner Whisper Drums
from Irreplaceable Hand: A Dax Pierson Benefit Compilation

02 Untitled
from The Second Coming LP

03 Smooching with the sacred cow of om
from Directions 2

04 Rock n Roll Session (Live)
from Schiphorst 2008 [Faust]

05 A wasted life of phagocyte foot fetishism
from Death's Last Life's Breath

06 Rat-hole (inédit!)
from Elegy Sampler 50


Was No.3 - Now No.9
Automating Volume Nine


01 you walrus hurt the one you love
from Smiling through my teeth

02 someone other's garden
from Rising From The Red Sand Vol 2

03 the poo poo song
from Ohrenschrauben 1982

04 antacid cocomotive 93
from Three Minute Symphony

05 the demon flower
from Belle de Jour

06 the cockroach of del monte
from Ohrensausen

07 charlie hosts a pork pie parasite
08 chair improvisation #4
from Zamizdat Trade Journal Volume 4

09 i've plumbed this whole neighborhood
from Drastic Perversions

10 great-god-father-nieces
from Necropolis, Amphibians and Reptiles

11 alas the madonna functions
from Peyrere

12 psychedelic underground
13 scapegoat
from The Portable Altamont

14 soup of the day
from Belle de Jour

15 split and well hung
from from Ohrensausen

16 scissors, radio, bongo and bell
from Ohren Des Kaiser Hirohito