Reissue of classic 1986 album, one of the more ambient and user-friendly releases in the Nurse With Wound catalog. Packaged in a four-panel digipack that replicates the original LP cover art.
Reissue of classic 1986 album, one of the more ambient and user-friendly releases in the Nurse With Wound catalog. Packaged in a four-panel digipack that replicates the original LP cover art.
Shawn Christopher Ward | spring, tx United States | 07/11/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Buy this album, Buy this album, Buy this album!!!!! Steven Stapleton rarely ceases to amaze, and this is no exception. Originally released on vinyl on the TORSO label in the mid-eighties, this is prime NWW. Experimental as always, this album is, for lack of a better word, amongst the more "ambient" of the NWW works. Still challenging at times, this record is considerably more "listenable" than earlier NWW pieces. The only frustrating thing about this album is the back cover listing 20 tracks (A-T) but the cd itself only being indexed as three tracks. -What this means is that i am not sure if the best track on the album is called "migration to the head," "earthwork," red period," "this lady is burning." or "chasing the carrot." In any event, you need this."
Great Dark Ambient
Logan Albright | Marietta, Georgia USA | 01/18/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is my second NWW album (after Man With The Woman Face) and I love it! Stapleton has a wonderfully eclectic style that will hold your interest and keep you coming back for more. Just when you think you've got the record pegged as a spooky, dark organ cacophony, you're bombarded with a jazzy piano solo out of the clear blue sky. Of a set of bagpipes blaring away, or the naturalistic sounds of birds chirping. There are even kazoos! It is often tricky to create ambient-style music that is still engaging all the way through, but Stapleton has a rousing success in Spiral Insana.
I will definately be listening to more NWW in the future (if I can find it, that is)."
What U R looking for, though you may not know it!
Phil Avetxori | 04/06/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I'm relatively new to NWW's music, but I've recently been snapping up everything I can get my hands on! No two albums are the same, but this is the entry point, one of the best. There is incredible variety within this album, with ambient segments alternating with more manic stretches, like The Faust Tapes, only both more cohesive and more diverse. Keyboard drones, pipe organ blasts, spaced out electronics, honky-tonk piano, meditative reeds, generator rumble, chirping birds, banjos, jags of noise, phased out martial beats, dubbed out kazoos, bowed pianos, rattling tin cans, guitar skronk,tape loop insanity....it's all here!"
The Ultimate Classic in its Field...
Toxic Excess | Chicago, Illinois | 03/31/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Having been an experimental music freak since the late 70s, I can easily vote this my favourite disk of its kind ever. This was my second NWW disk bought after "Homotopy to Marie," and it's never ceased to amaze and beguile me. I originally bought it on the Dutch Torso label on vinyl and was thrilled to find it finally re-released on United Dairies on compact disk many years later with the final section intact. This has either become incredibly rare or (more likely) people are unwilling to part with it once they've added it to their collection, as I've never seen it on eBay in the past two years since I started haunting it and buying through it. By all means, if you can, find this and get it for your very own!"