NURSE WITH WOUND — The Surveillance Lounge
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Ein neues Meisterwerk von STEVEN STAPLETON, die "Surveillance Lounge" ist düster & verstörend unheimlich, und mit unglaublichen akustischen Überraschungen vermint.... basierend auf einem Soundtrack für den spät entdeckten MURNAU-Sturmfilm "Der Brennende Acker" !!
"In 2007, NURSE WITH WOUND were invited by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation via In Famous to perform a live soundtrack of the 1922 Murnau film, Der Brennende Acker ("The Burning Soil") at La Cité de la Musique in Paris. The new sounds that were generated and the musical parts recorded for the film became rudimentary building blocks for The Surveillance Lounge. Nurse With Wound never fail to surprise, and just when you thought you could second guess how this might sound, they completely shift the direction. In contrast to 2008's Huffin' Rag Blues, this release focuses on the darker side of Nurse With Wound. While keeping a fresh, contemporary feel, it nods towards some of the older, more sinister material. For example, "The Golden Age Of Telekinesis" is driving, contrapuntal, tribal percussion mixed with distorted vocal samples, low drone, a scrabbling electronic auctioneer, and feedbacked guitar. CURRENT 93’s DAVID TIBET is featured on the disc along with the mainstay of STEVEN STAPLETON and ANDREW LILES. Also featuring Nadja Belabidi, Lynn Jackson, Ollie Mathura O'Keeffe, Freek Kinkelaar, Miranda Kinkelaar, Melon Liles and Maude Swift." [label info]
"A frightening record. Even by the standards set by the darkened mind of Steven Stapleton, the Surveillance Lounge is a terrifying album in fact. This set of recordings began through a 2007 commission by the F.W. Murnau Foundation to provide a live soundtrack for the 1922 Murnau film 'Der Brennende Acker' ("The Burning Soil"). A silent film that was thought to be lost until 1978, it tells a tale of a man who grew up in the rural life but cut himself from that existence through greed, lust, and ambition, rife with moral and psychological
dilemmas. Nurse With Wound is no stranger to the art of the homage, having constructed the ultra-minimalist masterpiece A Missing Sense
under the influence of Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing and the two Echoe Poem discs drew inspiration from the French New Wave film Last Year At Marienbad. The sessions, which gave us The Surveillance Lounge, came out of the initial material used for that soundtrack and were completed during the ensuing years. The bulk of those sessions actually had been encapsulated in a super limited edition box-set called The Memory Surface, which may be out of print by now, if not impossible to track down. That said, the Surveillance Lounge represents the best of this material, which was produced by Stapleton and Andrew Liles with vocal support from David Tibet, Freek Kinkelaar, and a host of others. Moaning vocals and creepy whisperings set a darkened hue for the Surveillance Lounge, which also adopts a chilling set of piano notes that seem to allude to another soundtrack, Coil's rejected score to Hellraiser. Soon afterwards, a textured smearing of sand, earth, and rock conjoin to a deep wooden creaking that ominously lurch forward in a similar manner to the epochal NWW album Salt Marie Celeste. The use of vocal snippets - in French, in German, from David Tibet, of children wailing - are signature moves from Stapleton, and are used in some of the best collage material that Stapleton has generated since Homotopy To Marie. Vocal and textural elements always seem to collapse into darkened shadows, only to find Stapleton and Liles forcing another scream of noise, voice, and electronics to the foreground with jarring effect. For the central track "The Golden Age Of Telekinesis," NWW slowly build a shuffling rhythm out of the shards of broken glass that intensifies through the development of a screeching noise buttressed by the rapid-fire glossolalia of what sounds like an auctioneer. Expect to find a dynamic chasm between the relative quiet of the early moments of this track to the ear-splitting crescendo of a tape machine whirling out of control. As the album draws near to a close, NWW explode land mines of noise, scorched earth, and Tibet's screams in barren soundscapes of disembodied voices and shadowy drones. By contrast the album ends on a note of soft-hued easy listening muzak with its politely swaggering guitar, which is creepy given the context of its cancerous segue. Like we said, frightening! This might be a good entree to NWW for those of you who normally only by black metal or ultradoom albums..." [Aquarius Records]
www.dirter.co.uk
"In 2007, NURSE WITH WOUND were invited by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation via In Famous to perform a live soundtrack of the 1922 Murnau film, Der Brennende Acker ("The Burning Soil") at La Cité de la Musique in Paris. The new sounds that were generated and the musical parts recorded for the film became rudimentary building blocks for The Surveillance Lounge. Nurse With Wound never fail to surprise, and just when you thought you could second guess how this might sound, they completely shift the direction. In contrast to 2008's Huffin' Rag Blues, this release focuses on the darker side of Nurse With Wound. While keeping a fresh, contemporary feel, it nods towards some of the older, more sinister material. For example, "The Golden Age Of Telekinesis" is driving, contrapuntal, tribal percussion mixed with distorted vocal samples, low drone, a scrabbling electronic auctioneer, and feedbacked guitar. CURRENT 93’s DAVID TIBET is featured on the disc along with the mainstay of STEVEN STAPLETON and ANDREW LILES. Also featuring Nadja Belabidi, Lynn Jackson, Ollie Mathura O'Keeffe, Freek Kinkelaar, Miranda Kinkelaar, Melon Liles and Maude Swift." [label info]
"A frightening record. Even by the standards set by the darkened mind of Steven Stapleton, the Surveillance Lounge is a terrifying album in fact. This set of recordings began through a 2007 commission by the F.W. Murnau Foundation to provide a live soundtrack for the 1922 Murnau film 'Der Brennende Acker' ("The Burning Soil"). A silent film that was thought to be lost until 1978, it tells a tale of a man who grew up in the rural life but cut himself from that existence through greed, lust, and ambition, rife with moral and psychological
dilemmas. Nurse With Wound is no stranger to the art of the homage, having constructed the ultra-minimalist masterpiece A Missing Sense
under the influence of Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing and the two Echoe Poem discs drew inspiration from the French New Wave film Last Year At Marienbad. The sessions, which gave us The Surveillance Lounge, came out of the initial material used for that soundtrack and were completed during the ensuing years. The bulk of those sessions actually had been encapsulated in a super limited edition box-set called The Memory Surface, which may be out of print by now, if not impossible to track down. That said, the Surveillance Lounge represents the best of this material, which was produced by Stapleton and Andrew Liles with vocal support from David Tibet, Freek Kinkelaar, and a host of others. Moaning vocals and creepy whisperings set a darkened hue for the Surveillance Lounge, which also adopts a chilling set of piano notes that seem to allude to another soundtrack, Coil's rejected score to Hellraiser. Soon afterwards, a textured smearing of sand, earth, and rock conjoin to a deep wooden creaking that ominously lurch forward in a similar manner to the epochal NWW album Salt Marie Celeste. The use of vocal snippets - in French, in German, from David Tibet, of children wailing - are signature moves from Stapleton, and are used in some of the best collage material that Stapleton has generated since Homotopy To Marie. Vocal and textural elements always seem to collapse into darkened shadows, only to find Stapleton and Liles forcing another scream of noise, voice, and electronics to the foreground with jarring effect. For the central track "The Golden Age Of Telekinesis," NWW slowly build a shuffling rhythm out of the shards of broken glass that intensifies through the development of a screeching noise buttressed by the rapid-fire glossolalia of what sounds like an auctioneer. Expect to find a dynamic chasm between the relative quiet of the early moments of this track to the ear-splitting crescendo of a tape machine whirling out of control. As the album draws near to a close, NWW explode land mines of noise, scorched earth, and Tibet's screams in barren soundscapes of disembodied voices and shadowy drones. By contrast the album ends on a note of soft-hued easy listening muzak with its politely swaggering guitar, which is creepy given the context of its cancerous segue. Like we said, frightening! This might be a good entree to NWW for those of you who normally only by black metal or ultradoom albums..." [Aquarius Records]
www.dirter.co.uk