NURSE WITH WOUND "drunk with the old man of the mountains" LP
10+ years old re-press with regular covers. Good purchase. NWW is kind of hit & miss for me. Some stuff is brilliant, some annoying. Here you have some laughter which can be either oddly sinister sounding, or just goofy, but damn well put together tape manipulations and sound sculptures.
HAL HUTCHINSON "damage portrait" tape
In this tape, Hal goes closer to objects. No layering, no dense structures, but very close-up recordings on kind of semi-flat tape recordings (no heavy bass or crispy high) of metal object scratching and smashing. I like the dimensionality of sound objects. You get the instantly the feel we aren't talking about flat smooth metal sheets, but various kinds of objects, where it's shape and size plays crucial role in type of sound created. What exactly set this above the currently popular acoustic metal junk brutism, is perhaps only that. You can hardly talk of composition or memorable recording techniques. Just nice range of objects.
