Nurse with Wound - To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl

Primary Artist
Nurse with Wound
Album Title
To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl
Release Date
1980 
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Review by Rolf Semprebon
Following on the footsteps of Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table, To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl was Nurse With Wound's second album and shows the group refining itself from the debut and adding a lot more dynamics. The record starts off with the very short "Umbrella Link," really just some guitar riffing from engineer Nicky Rodgers as a concession for N.w.w. to use his recording studio, before segueing into the side-long "She Alone Hole and Open." Along with the clattering and clanking percussion and weird scraping noises and guitar burbles, French avant-jazz giant Jacques Berrocal joined in on pocket trumpet and Stapleton adds some sax squall for results a bit closer to free jazz than the first record. Read More