[2003] Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste

 

 An hour-long drone track, apparently commisioned for an exposition, it's also one of Nurse With Wound's more known drone albums. Sounds like a ghst ship aimlessly floating into the ocean, with the occassional wheel turning and creaking. It's perfect to achieve that kind of atmosphere, and definitely not to leave it in the background while doing other stuff, seeing as it can get quite frightening at times.

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[1981] Nurse With Wound - Homotopy To Marie (2007 Reissue)

The quintessential Nurse With Wound album, this is what Stapleton considered as the "first real NWW album", and that it'd later become their trademark sound. Frightening like few, this album is complex and bizarre like the darkest horror flick never made. Hard to describe, like usual; this is a sonic experience that needs to be heard.
As a curious fact, some of the samples used for this album come from a Geinoh Yamashirogumi album called Osorezan / Dou no Kenbai, in which explores what it seems to be a traditional japanese folk ritual. Originally released on United Diaries, this is the 2007 reissue on Jnana Records, retaining the same quality.

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[1986] Nurse With Wound - Spiral Insana

My favorite NWW release of all times, Spiral Insana is also one of their most well-known releases, along with Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella and Homotopy To Marie, both trademarks of this particular sound. Spiral Insana, like its name implies, is a trip inside the human psyche, cycling and exploring motifs within the same album and other recordings from the past (some are featured later in A Sucked Orange). It's best described as "the soundtrack of a Lynch movie", it goes from pure dark ambient sections to ragtime to pure industrial sounds, all in a whim, in fact the very beginning sounds like some of the dark ambient sections Lynch would perform for his project Rabbits, hopefully some of you may hear it. It also features one of the most frightening transitions between track and track, creating a feeling of tension every time it switches. It's one of the reasons why I ended up enjoying brass sounds so much, the powerful, epic sound it evokes can be uplifting and utterly depressing at the same time.

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