Nurse With Wound - A Sucked Orange/Scrag (2012 reiss of compis from 1989 & 87)

A clearout exercise by Steven Stapleton, in which piles of tape offcuts destined for the bin were salvaged at a friend's suggestion and released in a Faust Tapes-style random collage.  The first attempt at this appeared in 1987 as a 28-minute cassette entitled Scrag, which wouldn't be digitally reissued until this double-CD edition in 2012.  Stapleton then fleshed out the concept to album-length in 1990, and called it A Sucked Orange, with one of his most eye-popping, memorable album covers.

The "bits and bobs" of tape were often worn and frayed from experimental abuse undertaken in the process of creating the early NWW records. Indeed, anyone familiar with Homotopy To Marie, Sylvie & Babs and Spiral Insana will recognise the sound of these albums starting to come together in occasional fragments.  Elsewhere, Stapleton has a go at a Steve Reich-esque tape phase experiment with a fragment of Trout Mask Replica, records various friends singing (or attempting to, and fluffing it), and much more.  In the end, he managed to create not just an outtakes compilation but a thoroughly enjoyable Nurse With Wound album in its own right from detritus that was about to end up as landfill.

Disc 1 (A Sucked Orange) link
Disc 2 (Scrag) link
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Previously posted at SGTG:
To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl
Merzbild Schwet
Insect And Individual Silenced
Homotopy To Marie
Gyllensköld, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg's
The Sylvie And Babs High-Thigh Companion
Spiral Insana
Lumb's Sister
Soliloquy For Lilith
Thunder Perfect Mind
Alice The Goon
A Missing Sense
Salt Marie Celeste
Angry Eelectric Finger: Spitch'cock One
Paranoia In Hi-Fi
The Surveillance Lounge 
Painting With Priests