Four months after being pre-sold Nurse With Wound's 'Space Music' album, the wait is over. This incarnation of NWW is Stephen Stapleton, Andrew lilies and Colin Potter and this single fifty five minute work was officially commissioned by the Melbourne Planetarium.… I'm seven minutes into it and I'm rendered speechless as what I'm hearing, is quite simply astonishing. The level of sound design is top class, as good as I've ever heard really. You can really visualise and imagine actually being out there the cosmos There are some gigantic blasts of noise (watch those speakers at this point) as if a spacecraft crashes and then, there you are, floating through the infinity of space. Suddenly all of the activity of the opening events are reduced to fairly quiet ambient micro tones. When I first heard this it was really quite difficult to focus on the subtitles as the activity in the office was super intense due to the pre-christmas rush. Bringing the disc home with me for headphone listening really makes me appreciate the attention to detail, it's not a casual listen but one that requires attention. Once you get locked in the sky really is the limit and before you know it you'll be like a particle of space dust, hanging out with meteors. In terms of quality, for me personally this is right up there with 'The Tomorrow People' soundtrack which I adore. Comes in lovely glossy hardback gatefold packaging as we've come to expect from Beta Lactum Ring and has a "Subliminal effects are used on this recording" warning. Superb and deeply immersive audio.
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Sound clips for Space Music by Nurse With Wound: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. LP (vinyl), Beta Lactam Ring, MT080LP , £21.59.
Tears for spheres. Be warned: the sounds you are hearing are NOT marmots eating your tweeters, though you are best advised to apply volume lightly at first. Stapleton’s astral weeks have been spent distilling sounds into sipping moonshine. LITERAL moonshine. After a viscerally present launch cycle, the Voyager Nurse Module is designed to be piloted by the out-of-body listener. With Lilith-like subtlety, the concrete powered craft makes its way ever closer to the edge of the galaxy. Which one? Who knows? Whichever it is, Vaclav Helhybel (Outer Space: Music) and Frank Perry (Deep Peace) are there, waiting to celebrate the space escapade with chilled cocktails and green friends.
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