Nurse With Wound List: Ritual All 770

The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands that accompanied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), the first album by Nurse With Wound. The list was expanded with Nurse With Wound's second album, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl.
The list was compiled by the original Nurse With Wound trio of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, and Heman Pathak. It was intended as a homage to the obscure artists which influenced the Nurse With Wound project. It has since become a type of 'shopping list' for collectors of outsider and avant-garde music. The list only included group names, and collectors have speculated on the specific albums which would have influenced Nurse With Wound. In a 1997 interview in UK magazine The Wire, Stapleton boasted that some of the names on the list were invented, a statement absolutely refuted by John Fothergill in David Keenan's book England's Hidden Reverse, published in 2003. Keenan, having researched the matter, declares Fothergill to be correct.


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Ritual All 770: "The Songs" (Riverboat, 1967)


Alan Sondheim speaks in the liner notes:


This work is a single improvised performance in which one of the performers sings "Oratorio on the end of illusions", although, in my libretto the words were originally "Oratorio on the end of visions". A libretto of eight pages was prepared. The vocalistswere not told how to sing it. They could go backward or repeatany section if they wanted to. There was no score. The only instruction given to the instrumentalists was this: no playing behind the koto or classical guitar. I had several rehearsals with each of them, mostly individually. The session lasted through twotakes, this is the second. After the master was made, I addedreverberation and volume controlling; other than that, all of themusic heard here is from the live performance.