NURSE WITH WOUND – Mothering Sunday (Legion Legion) / Die, Flip Or Go To India / Nichts

Nurse with Wound (abbreviated NWW) is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. The band’s work has explored genres such as industrial, noise, dark ambient, and drone. All 3 songs are taken from NWW’s album Bright Yellow Moon (2001), featuring Current 93 (David Tibet).

“Mothering Sunday (Legion, Legion)” features a carnival-type organ which plays and quickly fades out while Tibet’s spooky spoken word with scary sound effects. This is perfect for Halloween entertaining.

After the bed, and the death swirls And the purpureal magnificence Of the Psychopomp who came And the sun who ran with joy Twisting all the red-green leaves I reach, by eye, through window pane And saw you gasp out your life in starts:

“Are you a man, or are you a mouse?” What strange last words to leave The lips of one who may be damned Or may be saved, or may be lost What, in the heat of Your mind’s last seizure Did you see? Or did you mean? Where the night was inoculatеd by legion… The world is legion, еverywhere In the last lick of night The last taste of black On my lips, pink swizzle foam As the helicopters stutter through the long corridors Down we go. We’re in London, we are legion The sickness that waits in the heart or in the hole And the lights are always on in your eyes But in your heart, they were clicked suddenly shut

Now, as the sunset, cough-drop red Folds the birds into the squid-ink blue sky… Always in the night When the lights are bright And his voice calls for the police, or for the British Legion

All nothings, drifting through you, they were There is no-one to come now The time is nowhere, and we are legion Your heaven or your hell awaits Mothering Sunday, after the service And the vicar shakes hands with you all And if you but knew… he is waving goodbye

Legion, someday. Today, legion Check the hands of the watch For time, for time And do not say “this time is mine” This is the night, the night and you Your meeting with the dreaming faces Of the sea and the moon

All shine. All shine Someone bright appears And says:

“Your time is mine.”

“Die, Flip or Go to India” begins with ambient synths and processed atmospheric sounds. Processed spoken word vocals start at 7 minutes as the minimalist noises and voices effects continue. When it all ends after 11 minutes is the highlight of the track. The last track on the original album is “Walking Like Shadow”. This is another minimal acoustic track with Tibet’s singing/speaking vocals.

“Nichts” begins with the phrase that ended the previous track “Your time is mine” which fades out to the sound of a railroad train, which in turn morphs into a noise drone. This all turns into repeated spoken phrase loops and processed noises forming a collage.