Sylvie and Babs [Import]

Nurse with Wound | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: World
• ASIN: B0000072MG
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #483,662 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Walrus Hurt the One You Love

2. Great Balls of Fur

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must-have for fans of experimental music, March 21, 2000

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"witchhazelfish" (austin, texas, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sylvie and Babs (Audio CD)

This recording is getting on in years, but because of its nature, it is far from dated. Stapleton and a dizzying list of his noise/experimental peers created quite an album: layers of clips and loops, tones and voices, which draw the listener into what may best be described as either the soundtrack to a runaway carousel, or what you might hear falling down the rabbit hole.

I would recommend 'Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion' [and 'Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table...', another early title that Amazon carries] to anyone who has some familiarity with experimental recordings. This is not a record that absolutely everyone will be able to enjoy or appreciate, but it shouldn't be missed by those who are fans of the genre.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilariously Amusing, July 7, 2008

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Piers Moktan "Piers Moktan" (Khorsor Elephant Stable, Nepal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sylvie and Babs (Audio CD)

Nurse With Wound have never been po-faced about their avant-garde experimentalism, as one should expect from their often Dada version of musique concrete, and they're as capable of doing scary as they are funny. Here though it is most definitely funny- an incredible sound collage of clips from a preceding era of more innocent entertainments, albeit with room for the odd bit of drilling too! This is testament to Steven Stapleton's skills as a bricoleur- the collector who can collate in ways that create. From his inspired juxtapositions comes a thing of demented beauty. Another essential addition to the wonderful world of Nurse With Wound. The studio really is the instrument.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NWW BEST CD, January 19, 2011

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sonic brine - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sylvie and Babs (Audio CD)

This has always been MY favorite NWW release. It's funny and bizzare..I mean REALY! But that's what I'm looking for when I go to listen to NWW..40 or so minutes in two cuts. Quick-cut voices snips of music disjointed collage and a druken night club act...studeo stereo..ultra headphone stuff