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Limited indies hand-made art edition sleeve. Please note sleeve colours may vary as each one is hand-crafted.
A document of singular rarity. 1984: A Happening recovers the second ever public performance of Nurse With Wound, captured on tape in 1984 and held in Steven Stapleton's archive across the four decades since.
The recording itself is described, accurately, as raw but beautifully captured. The performance moves through the territory NWW had been mapping across Homotopy to Marie and Nature Unveiled: long passages of pre-recorded tape collage assembled by Stapleton and McKenzie, ridden over by live electronics, voice, percussion, and the surreal theatrical instinct that has run through every gesture the project has ever made. There is a sense of a collective groping its way through unstable material in real time, an ear turned simultaneously to dada and to musique concrète, to the British post-punk underground and to the krautrock heritage that has always shadowed Stapleton's work. The chaotic edges are intact. So is the intensity Stapleton has spoken of.
Tracklist
Side A
1 NWW: A Happening II 1984 Amsterdam
Side B
1. Steven
2. Jeff
3. Tim
4. Annie
5. David
6. Chrystal
7. Andy