Nurse With Wound
(black) Gyllenskold, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg's (2lp
This period of time in 1983 in which 'Gyllensköld' was recorded was a true evolution of Steven Stapleton's audio art. His collaborations with Diana Rogerson, Robert Haigh (Sema), David Tibet, and Jim Thirlwell around this time elicited some of the most exciting work Nurse With Wound had yet recorded. The production quality on these tracks is remarkable, and the widening out of the project's soundworld opened up a audio toybox that Stapleton has continued to experiment with up to today. It encompasses vocal experiments, vintage LPs of easy listening music, demented nursery rhymes, lateral references to disposable pop music, avant-garde jazz and minimalistic piano composition, all glued together with evocative atmospheres redolent of things unholy, troubling and perverse, but always oddly indefinable and puzzlingly misshapen. In retrospect, 'Gyllensköld' can be seen as the beginning of the "mature" period of NWW, and thus it is an indispensible release for fans of the project.