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NURSE WITH WOUND - The Surveillance Lounge

Format: do-LP Label & Cat.Number: Norton North OPIVM MMXIV-V Release Year: 2015 Note: official re-issue of the great album from 2009, feat. four long tracks of most mysterious & surrealistic ambience, using the voices of many guests as DAVID TIBET or FREEK KINKELAAR (BRUNNEN); lim. 400 luxus ed. tobacco paper cover on BLACK vinyl.. BACK IN STOCK THIS RARE ITEM !!! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €38.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info " “The Surveillance Lounge” was released in 2009 by Steven Stapleton with Andrew Liles and now finally pressed on vinyl for the first time. The sleeve appears with a surrealistic portrait on the front face, a close-up of a man smoking a cigarette fused with a partial view of a lake. The artwork by Babs Santini captures the eye with a subtle altered perspective point of view in which the seer can submerge. 4 tracks, one for each side: on the first “Close to you instantly” opens a different dimension made by slow piano sound waves, 15 minutes of pure rarefied atmosphere, a spiritual vision of a ritual focused on a dusky note in this hypnotic broken record. The second “The Golden Age Of Telekinesis” trembles in the deep listening of mysterious reverberations, a clear attempt to breathless run after the flash of a nightmare to drop into a chaotic hole made of screaming voices. The third titled “The Part Of Me Which Is That Part In You Is Now Dead” calmly introduce the listener in a peaceful landscape to make him experience a dissonant reality. The last “Yon Assassin Is My Equal” announces the end of a mental voyage towards whispers of recurring litanies and slowed voices in continuous metamorphosis. This is, without doubt, one of the most representative album by Nurse With Wound and it is recommended to use the best care for your acoustic sound system to maximize the pleasure of this experience. Artwork: Babs Santini. Voices: Freek Kinkelaar, Maude Swift, Melon Liles, Miranda Kinkelaar, Nadja Belabidi, Olly Louis Mathura O’Keeffe, David Tibet. It comes our in double vinyl (Black or White), deluxe gatefold cover in tobacco’s paper. (OPIVM MMXIV-V) Tracklist: 1 Close To You 15:08 2 The Golden Age Of Telekinesis 17:32 3 The Part Of Me Which Is That Part In You Is Now Dead 16:35 4 Yon Assassin Is My Equal 17:06." [label info] www.nortonnorth.com A frightening record. Even by the standards set by the darkened mind of Steven Stapleton, 2009's 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." 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