Nurse with Wound & Graham Bowers

ExcitoToxicity

 

 Nurse with Wound & Graham Bowers — ExcitoToxicity
Π≈   Long-running vehicle for the multi-faceted musical imagination of post-industrial artist Steven Stapleton.
Π≈   “The third studio album release from Nurse With Wound and Graham Bowers. ExcitoToxicity ... an excess of most things, both mentally and physically, although exciting and pleasurable, can easily accelerate and rapidly become toxic ... on a cellular level, deadly. We have thrown caution to the wind and gone overboard on the quality of the 8 Panel DigiPak artwork design and packaging for this release ... why? ... Graham liked all Steven's proposed paintings for the album ... so Steven decided we should feature them all ... on a heavy board in full gloss, on a matte background.”
Birth name: Steven Peter Stapleton
Born: 3 February 1957
Origin: Finchley, London, England
Genres: Experimental, industrial, dark ambient, noise
Formed: 1978 in London, England
Location: London, United Kingdom
Genres: Experimental, industrial, avant-garde, dark ambient, noise, drone
Album release: July 29, 2014
Record Label: Red Wharf
Distributed: Cargo
Duration:      42:20
Tracks:
1 Chains and Gates     9:25
2 The Worm Within     6:23
3 Jack Hammer Mutation     3:48
4 Dancing Tiger     8:21
5 ExcitoToxicity     8:44
6 Broken Symmetry     5:39
Featuring:
♣  Peter Benedict Gallagher • Guitar and various Piano parts
♣  Mark Porter • Saxophone
♣  Steven Stapleton
Π≈   also known as Babs Santini, Murray Fontana
Π≈   Born in Finchley, North London, UK
Π≈   Currently lives in County Clare, Southern Ireland
Π≈   Founder, leader of Nurse With Wound
Π≈   Founder, United Dairies
Π≈   Frequent member, producer of Current 93
Π≈   Producer on recordings of Legendary Pink Dots, Volcano the Bear, Organum, Stereolab
Π≈   Artist on LP covers by Tear Garden, Coil
Π≈   Married to Diana Rogerson
♣     An excess of most things, both mentally and physically, although exciting and pleasurable, can easily accelerate and rapidly become toxic ... on a cellular level, deadly.
A continuous musical track in six sections:
♣ CHAINS AND GATES
♣ THE WORM WITHIN
♣ JACK HAMMER MUTATION
♣ DANCING TIGER
♣ EXCITOTOXICITY
♣ BROKEN SYMMETRY
Notes:
Π≈   The CD is packaged in a special de-luxe matte and gloss 8 panel DigiPak and features stunning original artworks by Babs Santini.
Π≈   2014 March CD-R UK, copies in handmade sleeve, Stickered plastic bag
Π≈   ExcitoToxicity: The third studio album release from Nurse With Wound and Graham Bowers
Π≈   ExcitoToxicity ... an excess of most things, both mentally and physically, although exciting and pleasurable, can easily accelerate and rapidly become toxic ... on a cellular level, deadly.
Π≈   We have thrown caution to the wind and gone overboard on the quality of the 8 Panel DigiPak artwork design and packaging for this release ... why? ... Graham liked all Steven's proposed paintings for the album ... so
Π≈   Steven decided we should feature them all ... on a heavy board in full gloss, on a matte background.
Π≈   The pre-release has been limited to a quantity of 100 and contains a unique and individual printed insert of one of Steven's featured paintings, it takes the form of an unusual post-card, stamped with stamps of the world, franked, signed and numbered by Steven and Graham.
Please visit www.red-wharf.com for audio excerpts and further details.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMAXm-Q4P4&authuser=0
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NurseWithWound
Bandcamp: http://nursewithwoundandgrahambowers.bandcamp.com/
Cargo: http://www.cargo-records.de/de/item/74538/katalog_art.75.html
Press:
Agent:
MySpace: https://myspace.com/babssantini
Current live and sometime studio members:
Andrew Liles — http://www.andrewliles.com/
Matt Waldron — http://irrappext.com/
Colin Potter — http://www.icrdistribution.com/
Members:
Π≈   Although Stapleton has sole curatorship of NWW, the group has a long and illustrious list of collaborators including Diana Rogerson (Stapleton's wife), James Thirlwell of Foetus, Tony Wakeford, David Jackman of Organum, Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio, Stereolab, Jim O'Rourke, Christoph Heemann, William Bennett of Whitehouse, Robert Haigh, Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade, Annie Anxiety, John Balance of Coil, Matt Waldron of Irr. App (Ext) and most regularly David Tibet of Current 93. For some time, NWW was a core 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. Potter has appeared on almost every NWW release since. In 2009, a CD titled "Od Lot" was released (credited to Nurse With Wound) which contained solo recordings by Stapleton, Potter, Waldron and Andrew Liles.
John Fothergill helped found the band when it started. After parting company he went on to spend many years at the BBC children's unit accounting for programs such as Raven / In the Night Garden. He retired in June 2010.
Discography:
All records released on United Dairies, except where indicated.
Albums:
Π≈   Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), United Dairies (expanded, anniversary edition issued on World Serpent/United Dairies, 2001)
Π≈   Noise War 4 (1979, released 1988), Kas
Π≈   To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl (1980), United Dairies
Π≈   Merzbild Schwet (1980), United Dairies
Π≈   Insect and Individual Silenced (1981), United Dairies
Π≈   Homotopy to Marie (1982), United Dairies
Π≈   Ostranenie 1913 (1983), Third Mind Records
Π≈   Brained by Falling Masonry (1984), L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords
Π≈   The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion (1985), L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords (reissued by United Dairies, 1995)
Π≈   Spiral Insana (1986), Torso (re-released on United Dairies, 1997)
Π≈   Automating Volume One (1986), United Dairies
Π≈   Scrag! (1987), United Dairies
Π≈   Drunk with the Old Man of the Mountains (1987)
Π≈   Alas the Madonna Does Not Function (1988), 12” EP on United Dairies
Π≈   Soliloquy for Lilith (1988), 3×LP set on Idle Hole (re-released on 2×CD by United Dairies, 1993, on 3×CD in 2003 and finally, again on 3×CD by United Jnana, 2005)
Π≈   Soliloquy for Lilith [Parts 5 and 6] (1989)
Π≈   A Sucked Orange (1990)
Π≈   Thunder Perfect Mind (1992), United Dairies
Π≈   Large Ladies With Cake in the Oven (1993), United Dairies
Π≈   Rock 'n Roll Station (1994)
Π≈   Who Can I Turn to Stereo (1996)
Π≈   An Awkward Pause (1999)
Π≈   Alice the Goon (second edition) (2000), release with a bonus track of a 1996 vinyl-only issue of 500 copies
Π≈   Funeral Music for Perez Prado (2001), compilation featuring extended versions of previously released tracks
Π≈   Man with the Woman Face (2002)
Π≈   Salt Marie Celeste (2003)
Π≈   She and Me Fall Together in Free Death (2003), Beta-lactam Ring Records
Π≈   The Musty Odour of Pierced Rectums (2003), very limited edition on Beta-lactam Ring Records
Π≈   Chance Meeting of a Defective Tape Machine and a Migraine (2003), remixes
Π≈   Shipwreck Radio Volume One (2004), ICR (special edition with extra disc Lofoten Deadhead)
Π≈   Echo Poeme Sequence No. 2 (2005), United Jnana
Π≈   Shipwreck Radio Volume Two (2005), ICR (special edition with extra disc Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun)
Π≈   Soundpooling (2006), ICR (special edition with extra disc A Hand Job for the Laughing Policeman)
Π≈   Stereo Wastelands (2006), Beta-lactam Ring Records (edition of 500 CDs compiling previously unreleased mixes from Who Can I Turn to Stereo?)
Π≈   Rat Tapes One: An Accumulation of Discarded Musical Vermin 1983–2006 (2006)
Π≈   Shipwreck Radio: The Final Broadcasts (2006), ICR
Π≈   Huffin' Rag Blues (2008), United Dairies/Jnana
Π≈   The Surveillance Lounge (2009), United Dirter
Π≈   Space Music (2009), Beta-lactam Ring Records
Π≈   Paranoia in HiFi (2009), Dirtier Promotions (compilation featuring excerpts of previously released tracks)
Π≈   Chromanatron (2013), Rotorelief
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