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quoted 4 lines I would say they sound like.. experimental death folk with noises and

>I would say they sound like.. experimental death folk with noises and >strange beats? (Laugh). Really, i'm only joking, it's a very distinct >sound, but something similar to the sounds of Zos Kia, Muzlimgauze, and >others slightly associated.

we must be listening to two very different nurse with wound's. sounds to me like you're confusing them with coil/current 93/death in june, none of which sound even remotely like nww (and i don't really get the muslimgauze reference at all). if you want to know what nww is about, you'll have to start listening. but a good overall primer is the 2cd swinging reflective that came out recently... lots of collaborations stapleton has done with others (coil, tony wakeford of sol invictus, foetus, stereolab, william bennett, hist wife... a varied cast of characters). it's not my favorite nww by far but it is the only sort of "overview" one can get... all nww albums are generally speaking very different, although there are "phases" that are distinctive, like the quasi tribal rhythms that inhabit "who can i turn to stereo" and "rock and roll station" (as close to "techno" as nww has ever gotten, and it isn't that close) or the guitar noise splatter of "chance meeting..." and "merzbild schwet" (my least favorite nww albums)... my personal favorite is "soliloquoy for lilith" which is very ambient and drony and sublimely beautiful - vaguely similar to thomas koner with a drunken lilt maybe? and also the more recent "acts of senseless beauty" which features some sad and scratchily out of tune violin playing amidst electronic soundscapes. close to my most favorite is the "crumb duck" cd, which has the first two stereolab collaborations plus a couple of other brilliant goodies - almost like an overview and imho better than swinging reflective, but still only five songs (one of which is basically a stereolab song), two of which have a heavy neu! influence/imitation, so not that good an overview... anyways, it's hard to go wrong with nww (although possible - i would avoid the aforementioned first two albums and maybe "to the quiet men" as well, but i have a soft spot for that one) if noise is not your thing, and also some of the david tibet/stapleton cds are sort of dodgy (though i hear the first one is great, i really didn't like the others)... spiral insana is half amazing and half sort of boring... one more thing - if you ever see a copy of the murray fontana orchestra plays the hafler trio and you have any sort of a fancy for the hafler trio or tape cutup music in general, i would get it. it can still be (very occasionally) found at a reasonable price but it's technically out of print, and it is great (basically nww remix the hafler trio). then again, i love the hafler trio so you might want to take that with a grain of salt if one hour collages of people talking/moaning/singing/etc interspersed with extremely loud, annoying noise isn't your thing. --- the humble abbott arthur purvis set his hand hereto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org