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ARTIST: NURSE WITH WOUND TITLE: Alice the Goon LABEL: UNITED JNANA   DESCRIPTION: *** "Alice the Goon was previously a vinyl-only issue of 500 pieces, available to a lucky few at the Nevers Festival in France. It was hard to come by and selling for high prices on auction websites. Fortunately, for the Nurse With Wound fans not so lucky to be in France, Stephen Stapleton has agreed to allow everyone a chance to hear this music again. The CD features the two songs from the original release plus an additional, untitled piece which many call simply 'Alice the Goon.' The first track sounds like it would fit right in on the Sylvie and Babs release; imagine an old phonograph player belting out a brass-laden instrumental. The second track is a little less involved. The third track, however, sounds right out of A Missing Sense. There is little movement and many drones in this song that could certainly lull you to sleep." --Paul Kustos ITEM NUMBER: 10432 FORMAT: CD PRICE: $15.69

ARTIST: NURSE WITH WOUND TITLE: Chance Meeting (Reissue / Special Edition) LABEL: UNITED JNANA   DESCRIPTION: United Jnana is pleased to reissue the debut album from Nurse With Wound, Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, originally released on United Dairies in 1979. This special edition CD features a digipack with the original artwork restored and an expanded booklet with archival material chosen by Steven Stapleton. The disc has been remastered from the original analog tapes and features bonus material. Chance Meeting enjoys a reputation as one of the most singular debuts of all time. AllMusic describes it as "one of the more glowing examples of late-'70s industrial noise," and the now-defunct UK music magazine Sounds summed up their response by abandoning their usual star rating system to award the album a full five question marks. ITEM NUMBER: 10823 FORMAT: CD PRICE: $15.79

ARTIST: NURSE WITH WOUND TITLE: Huffin’ Rag Blues LABEL: UNITED JNANA   DESCRIPTION: **Double LP on black vinyl with laser etching on the D-side - Alternate mix to the CD edition** Another spectacular torrent of Dadaist experimental exotica from Steven Stapleton and Andrew Liles, with a suitably scattershot list of contributors and collaborators, including repeat offender Colin Potter (credited with "testicular randomisation") and a host of 'proper' musicians and vocalists prepared to undergo the NWW treatment. As with the companion release to this album, The Bacteria Magnet, Nurse With Wound are currently set on a creative trajectory that dismantles the auditory iconography of the fifties, marauding through eerie re-renderings of jazz club instrumentals, electroacoustic traffic sounds and skewed torch songs. As NWW albums go, this is probably among the more outwardly approachable releases, but in fact it's the very proximity to the language of pop music that makes Huffin' Rag Blues all the more subversive - subtly yet horrifically carving up and perverting lounge music like an auditory David Lynch on 'Thrill Of Romance..?', and layering distressed animal recordings on top of one another, sounding like Chris Watson at Papa Lazarou's circus during 'The Funktion Of The Hairy Egg'. ITEM NUMBER: 11254 FORMAT: 2 x LP PRICE: $27.29

ARTIST: NURSE WITH WOUND TITLE: Huffin’ Rag Blues LABEL: UNITED JNANA   DESCRIPTION: Nurse With Wound: Huffin’ Rag Blues CD Huffin’ Rag Blues is the new NWW CD. Stapleton and Andrew Liles form the core of the band this time and the direction they are heading is to the lounge! Huffin’ Rag Blues is unlike any NWW album in recent memory as they veer into the Space Age Bachelor Pad. Guest vocalists Lynn Jackson and Freida Abtan channel Peggy Lee while Matt Waldron lends his golden pipes to one song as well. This is truly Exotica as imagined by the twisted genius that is Nurse With Wound. Packaged in full colour 6 panel digipak. ITEM NUMBER: 09628 FORMAT: CD PRICE: $14.99

ARTIST: NURSE WITH WOUND TITLE: Spiral Insana LABEL: UNITED JNANA   DESCRIPTION:  "Spiral Insana is one continuous piece of music, indexed over three tracks (on the compact disc), with 20 track titles listed on the cover. Such is Steve Stapleton's Nurse With Wound. And it's just as well, because the music inside, more ambient and user-friendly than on other NWW outings, is still just as surreal and avant-garde as the rest of the catalog. Here, Stapleton and guests Robert Haigh, David Jackman, and Chris Wallis mix bowed piano, percussion, a radio, loops, and what is credited on the sleeve as 'stuff' together into an hour-long collage of mashed-up sounds, jarring juxtapositions, buzzsaw distortion, and even a pipe organ. If that sounds disorienting, that's because it is, both in description and execution. Nurse With Wound has always had a unique sound and vibe on their records, and Spiral Insana carries on in that tradition. While not as ambient and single-minded in tone as the drone masterpiece Soliloquy for Lilith or as jarring as the industrial Dada of Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, Spiral Insana is as good a place as any to start with the Nurse with Wound catalog." --All Music Guide ITEM NUMBER: 10431 FORMAT: CD PRICE: $15.69

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