Homotopy To Marie is the fifth album by Nurse With Wound, released in 1982, created by Steven Stapleton, music and sleeve. 2 CD version with a 26 pages art book in silverfoil hardback cover.
The album is “a step on from the Dadaist rock of Merzbild Schwet, with much use of tape manipulation and classical avant-garde techniques”. The album which combined tape edits with resonating gong tones and disembodied children’s voices to create a sonic collage far removed from the harsh improvisations of the group’s early albums.
The title of the brief closing track derives from a passage from Les Chants de Maldoror, a surreal poetic novel written by Le Comte de Lautréamont. This appropriation of a phrase from Maldoror is shared in common with the title of Nurse With Wound’s debut album Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella; both phrases appear in Lautréamont’s work.
The album was first issued on Stapleton’s own United Dairies label on vinyl, cassette and later in remastered compact disc including an extra track « Astral Dustbin Dirge »
This masterpiece reissue, is the official full double album from the original recording sessions. The 4 tracks from the original LP plus additional recordings from the same period.
Accompanying the Silver Series is the beautiful 24 sewn art pages of artworks by Steven Stapleton, in a deluxe silver hardcover book + 2CD version.
Tracklist
1-1 | I Cannot Feel You As The Dogs Are Laughing And I Am Blind | 10:14 |
1-2 | Homotopy To Marie | 16:37 |
1-3 | The Schmürz (Unsullied By Suckling) | 24:54 |
1-4 | The Tumultuous Upsurge (Of Lasting Hatred) | 1:25 |
2-1 | Astral Dustbin Dirge | 12:19 |
2-2 | Stick That Chick & Feel My Steel Through Your Last Meal | 7:00 |
2-3 | I Was No Longer His Dominant | 9:12 |
2-4 | Ciconia | 10:30 |
CD 1 originally released in 1982 on vinyl as Homotopy To Marie.
CD 2 is a compilation of previously released tracks (probably remixed / reworked).
2-1 – Drunk With The Old Man Of The Mountains 1987
2-2 – The Fight Is On 1985
2-3 – An Afflicted Man’s Musica Box 1982
2-4 – Masse Mensch 1982