Nurse With Wound
Biography
Nurse With Wound is a music project formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton in London, who also founded the project's main label United Dairies. It initially included John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak. Their early recordings, all made quickly, were heavily influenced by krautrock and free improvisation, but were generally considered industrial music despite the objections of the group.
By 1981, only Stapleton was left from the original trio and he now regards 1982's "Homotopy To Marie", as being the first proper Nurse With Wound release. There are over fifty NWW records, with many of its early albums being reissued by the french label Rotorelief.
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Stapleton's fondness for dada, surrealism and dark absurdist humor are demonstrated in much of NWW's output with suspenseful, erratic soundscape structures incorporating found sound, tape loops and dissonant instrumentation. The project draws on influences such as John Cage, Frank Zappa's musique concrete works, Captain Beefheart, and psychedelic Krautrock, as well as 1950s easy listening, Pérez Prado and mambo, and even Missy Elliott in later years. Indeed, the Nurse With Wound list" (see also the Nurse With Wound list tag on Last.fm) was Stapleton's initial list of music he listened to and was influenced by at the time of the project's inception.
Athough NWW has a long and illustrious list of collaborators, most notably David Tibet of Current 93, at time of writing, NWW is effectively a duo of Stapleton and Colin Potter, the latter having first worked with NWW on 1992's "Thunder Perfect Mind" when it was recorded at Potter's ICR studio.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.