"The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands that accompanied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), the first album by Nurse With Wound. The list was expanded with Nurse With Wound's second album, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl.
The list was compiled by the original Nurse With Wound trio of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, and Heman Pathak. It was intended as a homage to the obscure artists which influenced the Nurse With Wound project. It has since become a type of 'shopping list' for collectors of outsider and avant-garde music. The list only included group names, and collectors have speculated on the specific albums which would have influenced Nurse With Wound. In a 1997 interview in UK magazine The Wire, Stapleton boasted that some of the names on the list were invented, a statement absolutely refuted by John Fothergill in David Keenan's book England's Hidden Reverse, published in 2003. Keenan, having researched the matter, declares Fothergill to be correct." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_with_Wound_list
* Agitation Free
* Pekka Airaksinen (Sperm)
* Airway (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
* Albrecht D
* Alcatraz
* Älgarnas Trädgård
* ALL-7-70 (Alan Sondheim)
* Alternative TV
* Alvaro Peña-Rojas (The 101ers)
* Ame Son
* AMM
* Amon Düül
* Amon Düül II
* Anal Magic and Reverend Dwight Frizzel
* Anima/Anima Sound (Paul and Limpe Fuchs)
* Annexus Quam
* Aqsak Maboul
* Arbete och Fritid
* Arcane V
* Archaïa
* Archimedes Badkar
* Area
* Gilbert Artman (Urban Sax, Lard Free, Operation Rhino)
* Art Bears
* Art Zoyd
* Arzachel
* Robert Ashley
* Ash Ra Tempel
* Association P.C. (Pierre Courbois)
* Il Balletto di Bronzo
* Banten
* Franco Battiato
* Han Bennink
* Steve Beresford
* Jacques Berrocal
* Philippe Besombes
* Biglietto per l'Inferno
* Birgé Gorgé Shiroc (Jean-Jacques Birgé, Un Drame Musical Instantane)
* Blue Sun
* Raymond Boni
* Don Bradshaw Leather
* Brainstorm
* Brainticket
* Brast Burn
* Brave New World
* Anton Bruhin
* Brühwarm Theatre
* Franz de Byl
* Cabaret Voltaire
* John Cage
* Can
* Capsicum Red
* Captain Beefheart
* Chamberpot
* Checkpoint Charlie
* Theatre du Chene Noir
* Chillum
* Henri Chopin
* Chrome
* Cohelmec Ensemble
* Jean Cohen-Solal
* Collegium Musicum
* Roberto Colombo
* Come (later Whitehouse)
* Companyia Elèctrica Dharma
* Comus
* Cornucopia
* Crass
* Creative Rock
* Cromagnon
* David Cunningham
* Cupol (a Wire side project)
* Dadazuzu (only ever made 1 track for a compilation release)
* Wolfgang Dauner
* Debris'
* Decayes
* Dedalus
* The Deep Freeze Mice
* Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
* Dharma Quintet
* Dies Irae
* Dome (Another Wire side project)
* Doo-Dooettes (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
* Philippe Doray
* Roger Doyle (Operating Theatre)
* Jean Dubuffet
* Dzyan
* Eiliff
* Emtidi
* Eroc (Grobschnitt)
* Etron Fou Leloublan
* Exmagma
* Family Fodder
* Patrizio Fariselli (Area)
* Faust
* Luc Ferrari
* Fille Qui Mousse
* Floh de Cologne
* Flying Lizards
* Food Brain
* Förklädd Gud
* Walter Franco
* Free Agents (Pete Shelley)
* Friendsound
* Fred Frith
* Gash
* Ron Geesin
* Gila
* Jef Gilson
* Glaxo Babies
* Gomorrha
* Gong
* Good Missionaries (Alternative TV)
* Le Grand Magic Circus
* John Greaves and Peter Blegvad (Henry Cow/Slapp Happy)
* Fernando Grillo
* Ragnar Grippe
* Grobschnitt
* Group 1850
* Jean Guérin
* Friedrich Gulda
* Guru Guru
* Hairy Chapter
* Hampton Grease Band
* Henry Cow
* Pierre Henry
* Heratius
* Hero
* Juan Hidalgo
* Hugh Hopper
* Horde Catalytque Pour La Fin
* Horrific Child
* Ibliss
* L'Infonie
* International Harvester
* Iskra
* Island
* Martin Davorin-Jagodic
* Jan Dukes de Grey
* King Crimson
* Basil Kirchin
* Osamu Kitajima
* Kluster
* Frank Köllges
* Komintern (Red Noise)
* Kraftwerk
* Krokodil
* Steve Lacy
* Lard Free (Urban Sax)
* Le Forte Four (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
* Lemon Kittens
* Lily (band)
* Limbus 3/Limbus 4
* Bernard Lubat
* Alvin Lucier
* Magical Power Mako
* Magma
* Colette Magny
* Mahjun
* Mahogany Brain
* Radu Malfatti and Stephan Wittwer
* Mama Dada 1919
* Michael Mantler
* Albert Marcoeur
* Mars
* Maschine NO 9 (Krautrock supergroup)
* Philippe Mate and Daniel Vallancien
* Costin Miereanu
* Min Bul
* Mnemonists (Biota)
* Modry Efekt
* Moolah
* Anthony Moore
* Mothers of Invention
* Moving Gelatine Plates
* Fritz Müller
* Thierry Müller (Ilitch)
* Musica Elettronica Viva
* Music Improvisation Company
* Mythos
* Napoli Centrale
* Negativland
* Neu!
* New Phonic Art
* Nico
* Night Sun
* Nihilist Spasm Band
* Nine Days Wonder (band)
* Nosferatu
* Nu Creative Methods
* Oktober
* Yoko Ono
* Operation Rhino
* Opus Avantra
* Orchid Spangiafora
* Out of Focus
* Ovary Lodge (Keith Tippett)
* Tony Oxley
* Evan Parker and Paul Lytton
* Pataphonie
* Jean-François Pauvros and Gaby Bizien
* Pere Ubu
* Pierrot Lunaire
* Der Plan
* Plastic Ono Band
* Plastic People of the Universe
* Poison Girls
* Pôle (Philippe Besombes and Jean Louis Rizet)
* Pop Group
* Michel Portal
* Bomis Prendin
* Public Image Ltd
* Red Krayola
* Red Noise
* Reform Art Unit
* Steve Reich
* Achim Reichel
* The Residents
* Catherine Ribeiro and Alpes
* Boyd Rice (NON)
* Terry Riley
* Claudio Rocchi
* Rocky's Filj
* Ron 'Pate's Debonairs
* Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, & Oswald Wiener
* Ray Russell (musician)
* Terje Rypdal
* Martin Saint Pierre
* Samla Mammas Manna
* Gunter Schickert
* Second Hand
* Secret Oyster
* Seeselberg
* Semool
* Sonny Sharrock
* Silberbart
* Siloah
* Soft Machine
* Smegma (Los Angeles Free Music Society)
* Sally Smmitt (Sally Timms/Mekons)
* Alan Sondheim
* Snatch (Judy Nylon)
* Sperm (Pekka Airaksinen)
* Sphinx Tush (Only made two tracks)
* Stooges
* Karlheinz Stockhausen
* Demetrio Stratos (Area)
* Supersister
* Taj Mahal Travellers
* Tamia
* Tangerine Dream
* Ghédalia Tazartès
* Technical Space Composers Crew
* Mama Béa Tekielski
* Third Ear Band
* Thirsty Moon
* This Heat
* Jacques Thollot
* Thrice Mice
* Throbbing Gristle
* Paolo Tofani (Area)
* Tokyo Kid Brothers
* Tolerance
* Tomorrow's Gift
* Ton Steine Scherben
* TransMuseq
* Uli Trepte (Guru Guru)
* Twenty Sixty Six and Then
* Univers Zero
* Christian Vander (musician) (Magma (band))
* Velvet Underground
* Vertø
* Patrick Vian (Red Noise)
* L. Voag (The Homosexuals)
* Michel Waisvisz
* Igor Wakhevitch
* Lawrence Weiner
* Trevor Wishart
* James White and the Contortions
* Whitehouse
* Wired
* Woorden
* Robert Wyatt
* Xhol Caravan/Xhol
* Iannis Xenakis
* Ya Ho Wha 13
* La Monte Young
* Frank Zappa
* Zweistein
* ZNR
Originally posted by Bosse de NageFantastic stuff, thanks!
"The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands that accompanied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), the first album by Nurse With Wound. The list was expanded with Nurse With Wound's second album, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl.
The list was compiled by the original Nurse With Wound trio o r, declares Fothergill to be correct." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_with_Wound_list
My first encounter (so to speak) with NWW was on the Stereolab collection 'Refried Ectoplasm' - their collaboration on Crumb Duck. I haven't beern able to track down the actual Crumb Duck EP anywhere, though...
EDIT: Went to Amazon to look up the book. I'll wait for the paperback edition to come out in June, I think...
Originally posted by Bosse de NageNice! I have 'Homotopy to Marie' at home. Wonderfully eerie and haunting.
"The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands that accompanied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), the first album by Nurse With Wound. The list was expanded with Nurse With Wound's second album, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl.
The list was compiled by the original Nurse With Wound trio o ...[text shortened]... r, declares Fothergill to be correct." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_with_Wound_list
I'd be very interested in checking out 'Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella'.