In 1978, UK industrial and experimental music pioneers Nurse With Wound, then a collaborative effort between multiple musicians before Steven Stapleton would turn the project into his braintrust some years later, released its debut album Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. That record, the title of which references an excerpt of Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, is one of the primary influences on all that which would later be known as industrial, experimental, or noise music from that point on.

More important than the album, however, is its liner notes. What has become known as the Nurse With Wound list was printed in the liner notes of the record: a list of over 200 avant-garde and outsider artists and groups that were influential on the development of Nurse with Wound in particular but that also can be used to historicize the avant-garde tendency in music writ large. From ground zero avant-rock like the Velvets to obscure European Jazz like Thrice Mice to pioneers of avant-garde composition like Karlheinz Stockhausen, the NWW list opens the floodgates to a new method of engagement with sound.

In this episode, the boys invite Joey from the Easy Listening podcast to journey through the NWW list with all three of them finding three artists from it that appeal to their own sensibilities.

OST Joe Potts "Airway" Robert Ashley "Automatic Writing" Chrome "SS Cygni" Le Forte Four "To the Crow" Pere Ubu "Small Was Fast" Horrific Child "Angoisse" The Decayes "Breeding in Captivity" Alvin Lucier "Bird & Person Dyning" Selten Gehorte Musik "Untitled"

LINKS: Easy Listening podcast with John Duncan NWW List NWW Brainwashed doc Steven Stapleton interview Bob Nickas on NWW