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Nurse With Wound, "Drunk with the Old man of the Mountains"
In the post-World Serpent world, it's refreshing to see a tastefullooking, properly packaged, elegant layout on a Nurse With Woundrelease which isn't completely driven by capitalism or auctionable (oreven questionable) "special" editions.Jnana
Cover artwork is collected froma few of Steve's own personal favorite paintings for the original cover(all were different on the original 1987 issue) and the overall designechoes what has worked for Nurse in the past. Although all the musichas been released before (both on LP and various CDs), everything iscurrently out of print. This is the first time all the songs have beenreunited on a CD, and it sounds wonderful. Tracks were originallygathered from cassette-only releases, compilations, a live bit, andother odds and ends. All have been remastered and sound more vibrantthan ever, from the nasty organ through piano banging on the opening"Mourning Smile" (which probably shouldn't have gone on the CD releaseof Spiral Insanato begin with), to the shrieking banshee noises on "Sheela-Na-Gig," andthe dying manatee sounds on "Astral Dustbin Dirge," which mostdefinitely shouldn't have gone on the CD issue of Homotopy to Marie."Swamp Rat," although it's rarely a popular song with existing fans,undeniably has the elements that fans fell in love with NWW for: aconstant pulse (even if it is a cheesy drum machine in this case), anoccasionally repeated sample, a drone of some sort, and someunconventional instrument playing over it. Even the least intoxicatingsongs never got boring. While a lot of musicians and distributors andfans think the collapse of World Serpent was a bleak moment, I lookforward to more classy reissues like this with the delicate time andenergy invested into restoring a original running order and remasteringrecordings with the finesse that somebody like Colin Potter possesses.
Cover artwork is collected froma few of Steve's own personal favorite paintings for the original cover(all were different on the original 1987 issue) and the overall designechoes what has worked for Nurse in the past. Although all the musichas been released before (both on LP and various CDs), everything iscurrently out of print. This is the first time all the songs have beenreunited on a CD, and it sounds wonderful. Tracks were originallygathered from cassette-only releases, compilations, a live bit, andother odds and ends. All have been remastered and sound more vibrantthan ever, from the nasty organ through piano banging on the opening"Mourning Smile" (which probably shouldn't have gone on the CD releaseof Spiral Insanato begin with), to the shrieking banshee noises on "Sheela-Na-Gig," andthe dying manatee sounds on "Astral Dustbin Dirge," which mostdefinitely shouldn't have gone on the CD issue of Homotopy to Marie."Swamp Rat," although it's rarely a popular song with existing fans,undeniably has the elements that fans fell in love with NWW for: aconstant pulse (even if it is a cheesy drum machine in this case), anoccasionally repeated sample, a drone of some sort, and someunconventional instrument playing over it. Even the least intoxicatingsongs never got boring. While a lot of musicians and distributors andfans think the collapse of World Serpent was a bleak moment, I lookforward to more classy reissues like this with the delicate time andenergy invested into restoring a original running order and remasteringrecordings with the finesse that somebody like Colin Potter possesses.samples:
