STIMUL FESTIVAL PRESENTS: NURSE WITH WOUND /UK/, ARANOS /IR/
30/4/2010 20:00 - A legend of the post-industrial scene and one of the most original projects of experimental electronic music Nurse With Wound is coming for the first time ever in the Czech Republic. Opening for them will be Aranos, a multi-instrumentalist of Czech origin who spices his experimental omnivorousness with plenty of energy.
A pool brimming with sounds, from surreal whistles to spilt Dada hats, galactic buzzing and the rustling of mice. A legend of the post-industrial scene and one of the most original projects of experimental electronic music is coming. On April 30 at the Archa Theatre, Steven Stapleton's deranged noise project Nurse With Wound will perform for the first time ever in the Czech Republic. Opening for them and acting as a host band will be Aranos, a multi-instrumentalist of Czech origin who spices his experimental omnivorousness with plenty of energy.
Since that time, Steven Stapleton along with various collaborators has regularly locked himself away in the recording studio, from where they release into the world fantastic albums full of twisted humour, interwar-avant-garde perceptions of erotica, bizarre composition structures and homages to his favourite albums. When he heads off to the studio, this non-musician has, among other things, many albums under his arm. The bizarre cocktail of sounds, easy listening, noir atmosphere and naivist obsessiveness of Stapleton and co. has gained him cult status in the field of industrial music. Stapleton himself tries to avoid being overtly connected with industrial, which is not surprising: his music has a lot more colour and perspective and cannot be tied down by genre conventions.
The rich discography of Nurse With Wound (more than 100 albums) includes a collaborative album with krautrock legend Faust, Stereolab, noise veterans Whitehouse and with star producer Jim O’Rourke, pure-blooded ambient and plunderphonic, naughty probes into the secret nooks and crannies of easy listening, music for films and a planetarium, terrain recordings from the Norwegian islands of Lofot, where local brass band or the peculiar reply to the famous composition of Gavin Bryars The Sinking Of The Titanic – album Salt Marie Celeste named after one of the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle and named by Wire Magazine as the album of the year in 2004. Stapleton and co. are best where it is difficult to define them and the rules of their playing are known only to the creators.
In 2005, after more than 20 years, Nurse With Wound started to perform in concert again. They began their stage comeback in style in Vienna's Narrenturm – a submerged oval building, which originally served as an insane asylum and which now houses a museum of anatomy and pathology. Among two-headed babies in formaldehyde, Salt Marie Celeste in combination with the announcement of the film Last Year in Marienbad sounded great. In Prague Nurse With Wound will feature Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Matt Waldron and Andrew Liles.
LINKS:
http://www.brainwashed.com/nww
VIDEO:
http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/videos/nurse-with-wound.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfxNoYxMhI
LINKS:
http://www.brainwashed.com/aranos
VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbnoRUfCfQ
Presented by STIMUL festival: http://www.stimul-festival.cz
TICKETS: CZK 490 / on the spot CZK 590
All tickets standing.
Tickets available from Archa Theatre Box Office and TICKETPRO and Ticketportal outlets (subject to additional booking fee).
Nurse With Wound /UK/
It started in 1979 – a trio of friends obsessed with collecting obscure LPs more or less by chance found themselves in the studio, where with guitars, rattles and a dissected keyboard an album was created, whose name included the famous Dadaistic image of a "meeting of an umbrella and a sewing machine on the operating table." One reviewer disdained the use of stars, bestowed upon the album five question marks, and wrote that "Compared to this the Faust Tapes are tea."Since that time, Steven Stapleton along with various collaborators has regularly locked himself away in the recording studio, from where they release into the world fantastic albums full of twisted humour, interwar-avant-garde perceptions of erotica, bizarre composition structures and homages to his favourite albums. When he heads off to the studio, this non-musician has, among other things, many albums under his arm. The bizarre cocktail of sounds, easy listening, noir atmosphere and naivist obsessiveness of Stapleton and co. has gained him cult status in the field of industrial music. Stapleton himself tries to avoid being overtly connected with industrial, which is not surprising: his music has a lot more colour and perspective and cannot be tied down by genre conventions.
The rich discography of Nurse With Wound (more than 100 albums) includes a collaborative album with krautrock legend Faust, Stereolab, noise veterans Whitehouse and with star producer Jim O’Rourke, pure-blooded ambient and plunderphonic, naughty probes into the secret nooks and crannies of easy listening, music for films and a planetarium, terrain recordings from the Norwegian islands of Lofot, where local brass band or the peculiar reply to the famous composition of Gavin Bryars The Sinking Of The Titanic – album Salt Marie Celeste named after one of the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle and named by Wire Magazine as the album of the year in 2004. Stapleton and co. are best where it is difficult to define them and the rules of their playing are known only to the creators.
In 2005, after more than 20 years, Nurse With Wound started to perform in concert again. They began their stage comeback in style in Vienna's Narrenturm – a submerged oval building, which originally served as an insane asylum and which now houses a museum of anatomy and pathology. Among two-headed babies in formaldehyde, Salt Marie Celeste in combination with the announcement of the film Last Year in Marienbad sounded great. In Prague Nurse With Wound will feature Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Matt Waldron and Andrew Liles.
LINKS:
http://www.brainwashed.com/nww
VIDEO:
http://www.amoeba.com/live-shows/videos/nurse-with-wound.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfxNoYxMhI
Aranos (IR)
The name Aranos is a cover for Petr Vaštl, a multi-instrumentalist who lives in Ireland. He has worked on several Nurse With Wound albums and is allied with them on Current 93. In his solo work, however, he is a lot more broadminded and entirely without scruples. He playfully mixes together Waits-like hoarseness with virtuoso violin playing and chameleon-like switches from gypsy trills to dark electronic drones. Prague heard him for the first time five years ago at the Stimul Festival. Gentle songs are followed by angry protests, sound collages, acoustic ambient and the clatter of weird machines for making a racket. He mostly releases his work under his own label and in striking packages (lately he's into wood). Every inch is self-made.LINKS:
http://www.brainwashed.com/aranos
VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wbnoRUfCfQ
Presented by STIMUL festival: http://www.stimul-festival.cz
CONCERT. NO LANGUAGE BARRIER.
TICKETS: CZK 490 / on the spot CZK 590
All tickets standing.
SPECIAL OFFER: FESTIVAL PASS FOR CZK 900 - ALL 3 CONCERTS (APRIL 30, MAY 15 AND 20)
Available from Archa Theatre Box Office only / till April 30Tickets available from Archa Theatre Box Office and TICKETPRO and Ticketportal outlets (subject to additional booking fee).
