Salt Marie Celeste
Nurse With Wound

UD0104CD 2001CD

Tracks
  1. Salt Marie Celeste (1:01:58) [ MP3 ]
Label United Dairies / Jnana Records
Country UK / US
Catalogue UD104CD / 2001CD
Format CD
Date February 2003 / September 2005
Edition UD104CD. Edition in digipak.
2001CD. Edition in digipak.
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Sleeve Notes Recorded and mixed May-September 2002 at the Watertower, Preston

Mix Stapleton
Engineer Colin Potter
Digital transfer Denis Blackham
Artwork by Ruby Wallis
Layout Santini
Photoshop Matt Black

This album is dedicated to the memory of our great friend Daragh Greally 25th November 1969-23rd June 2002

Daragh
Ultra fast burning sparkling phosphorescent light
Sparkling wit and sparkling eyes
You lit up our lives
The children adore you as did the women
You never gave an inch but you gave a million miles
The times spent with you will be in my heart forever
Daragh you are so special to us

Poem for Daragh Ruby Wallis
Notes 2001CD is a virtually identical re-issue of UD104CD. Only differences are catalog number and the fact that the cover of the Jnana release is much darker.
Other Images back , inside 1 , inside 2 , disc
Review The all new Nurse With Wound studio album presented in a lavish digipak format contains one of the most radical pieces the band have ever recorded; similar in concept to Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic . Salt Marie Celeste delves even deeper into the theme of dropping into unknown darkness and ultimate demise. Recorded by Steven Stapleton and electronic wizard Colin Potter in 2002. This is a landmark recording in the field of contemporary electronic music. Artwork by Ruby Wallis and Babs Santini.
Review For those who either missed or were unable to get the Horse Hospital CD release last year, the Nurse With Wound contribution, "Salt," has now basically been expanded. In its original 60+ minute form, the music pretty much played as a loop for the entire duration. The sound waved back and forth between two chords, providing a cold and creepy feeling of ship being lost at sea. The purpose for the original work was originally to provide aural ambience to the art exhibit at the Horse Hospital gallery. With this version, efforts have been made to make this more of a foreground-listening experience, but there's honestly not much else added. Along with the fluctuating orchestral-like chords, other loops are added bit by bit, including sounds that resemble a passing car, a boat horn, piano, creaking boards, and a creaky door. At around the 50-minute mark, all extraneous sounds taken out, leaving the sound of water. Eventually the water fades out, leaving only the droning two chords. Effects fade off shortly thereafter and the drone eventually dies. NWW fans expecting something dense and maximalistic like An Awkward Pause will probably not enjoy this album as much as fans of the droning NWW heard on albums like Soliloquoy for Lilith or A Missing Sense. - Jon Whitney