Nurse With Wound - Man With The Woman Face (2002)

Since Steven Stapleton recently compiled all his "Trippin' Musik" from last year into a box set (that I've yet to explore), why not take a trip back to one of his most eerily psychedelic albums from the early 2000s.  Featuring just three tracks in a succinct 38 minutes, Man With The Woman Face was in hindsight a subtle, understated prelude to the hallucinatory madness unleashed with the Angry Eelectric Finger series.

Beware The African Mosquito (Ring Your Doorbell, Put You To Sleep) is the first extended fever dream that develops from a gently pulsing drone and fluttering, clattering sounds.  Bell tones, snatches of voice and more gradually fill out the lysergic landscape into one of NWW's most striking album openers for some time.   

Ag Canadh Thuas Sa Spèir (Up in the sky, singing) is based around more drones and electronic tones, smudged into a blend of unsettling electronic muck and robotic voice.  Six minutes in, snatches of a full-on Amon Düül style freakout suddenly disrupt, before leaving behind electronic chirruping.  The final 15 minutes plus of White Light From The Stars In Your Mind (A Paramechanical Development) take in even more of a krautrock influence, with a straightup (if speed-shifted) borrowing from early Amon Düül over another pulsing dronescape.  One of the most hypnotic and satisfying NWW records.

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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
A Sucked Orange / Scrag
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