v/a- STRAIN CRACK & BREAK: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume One 2LP

Highly recommended.

After years of mythology, misinterpretation, and procrastination NWW's Steven Stapleton finally releases "the right tracks" from his über-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List, commencing with a French specific Volume One of this authentically titled Strain Crack And Break series.

Featuring some Finders Keepers' regulars amongst galactic Gallic rarities, this 2LP dossier demystifies some of the essential French free jazz and Parisian prog inclusions from the alphabetical "dedication" inventory as printed the anti-bands 1979 industrial milestone debut.

When Steven Stapleton, Heman Pathak, and John Fothergill's anti-band Nurse With Wound decided to include an alphabetical dedication to all their favorite bands on the back of their inaugural LP the notion of creating a future record dealers' trophy list couldn't have been further from their minds. By adding a list of untraveled European mythical musicians and noise makers to their own debut release of unchartered industrial art rock they were merely providing a suggestive support system of existing potential like-minded bands.

Many of the rare, obscure and unpronounceable genre-free records on The Nurse With Wound List have slowly found their own feet and stumbled in to the homes of open-minded outer-national vinyl junkies, mostly without consultation of the enigmatic NWW map.

Via vinyl vacations, on cheap flights and interrail tickets, buying bargain bin LPs while oblivious to the pending pension worthy price tags after their 40-yr vintage, Stapleton and Fothergill were at the bottom of the pit before "digging" became pay dirt. The List has been mythologized, misunderstood, and misconstrued. It's also been overlooked, overestimated, and under-appreciated in equal measures.

Bolstered by the sub-title "Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden," all bands on the inventory were chosen for their genre-defying qualities.