Shipwreck Radio

Shipwreck Radio is a series of albums by Nurse With Wound documenting their residency in Lofoten, Norway during June and July 2004. Invited to stay in the unofficial capital, fishing village Svolvær, Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter were commissioned to produce 3 radio broadcasts per week for local station Lofotradioen of music constructed from whatever they heard or could find around the island. The project was instigated by Anne Hilde Neset and Rob Young of The Wire and by Kunst I Nordland, an organisation committed to bringing contemporary art to county of Nordland[1].
The duo created 24 broadcasts in total, each of either 15 or 30 minutes duration. Each broadcast was preceded by a jingle of a male voice saying "Velkommen Til Utvær" followed by a female voice saying the English translation "Welcome To Utvær", Utvær being the most remote island in Lofoten, with no permanent residents but 2 lighthouse keepers on hand. Many of the broadcasts treated or manipulated the two introductary voices with one comprised of nothing but such manipulations. 20 of these transmissions have been made available by Nurse With Wound across a number of separate releases with all tracks listed only by the date of original broadcast.

Nurse With Wound - Shipwreck Radio Volume One (Seven Sonic Structures From Utvær)
2004.


1-1 June 15 (16:01)
1-2 June 17 (30:39)
1-3 July 24 (15:22)
2-1 June 5 (15:13)
2-2 July 6 (15:02)
2-3 June 3 (15:57)
2-4 June 20 (15:26)


http://rapidshare.com/files/250536001/SHIPWRECK_RADIO_1.rar


Limited edition of 500. The first 150 copies came with the Lofoten Deadhead CDr.



1 July 8 (14:51)
2 June 5 (30:02)
3 July 10 (15:08)


http://rapidshare.com/files/250609146/Lofoten_Deadhead.rar




Shipwreck Radio Volume Two (Eight Enigmatic Episodes From Utvær)
2005


1-1 June 12 (14:52)
1-2 June 9 (15:28)
1-3 July 4 (15:02)
1-4 July 21 (15:33)
2-1 July 18 (16:29)
2-2 June 6 (15:35)
2-3 July 28 (15:03)
2-4 June 19 (14:35)

http://rapidshare.com/files/250552144/SHIPWRECK_RADIO_2.rar


The first 250 copies came with the Gulls Just Want To Have Fun CD.


1 Untitled (0:59)
2 Untitled (15:58)
3 Untitled (1:08)
4 Untitled (0:56)
5 Untitled (9:34)
6 Untitled (0:40)
7 Untitled (0:55)
8 Untitled (14:49)
9 Untitled (2:20)
10 Untitled (14:20)
11 Untitled (15:00)
12 Untitled (3:14)

"Various Broadcasts and Audio Debris"

http://rapidshare.com/files/250586488/Gulls_Just_Wanna_Have_Fun.rar




Shipwreck Radio: Final Broadcasts
2006


1 June 22 (30:18)
2 July 13 (30:29)

“June 22,” the first of the two half hour tracks, begins with the by-now familiar greeting of Utvaer’s most beloved Deadhead, echoed by his perky sidekick. As they vanish, something sinister appears in their place. The image most prominent in my mind is of a furnace possessed by spirits best left unidentified, swelling into aggressive bursts of volume in increasing lengths as the track progresses, with a particularly bone-rattling eruption occurring just after the twenty minute mark. Frequently the sound hovers like thick, humid air, as if waiting for an unnamed menace to slither forth from the darkness. A subdued alarm bell appears out of the fog from time to time, commingling with faint metallic overtones on the fringe of perception while revenant gasps hiss in the mist. Even listening to this track in the daylight, I have to say that I found it to be one of the more viscerally thrilling and frightening Nurse With Wound experiences I’ve had in a while, much like the gut feeling I used to get just before the initial drop on a roller coaster.

As the last track in the Shipwreck series, “July 13” is quite the headcleaner. After the initial greetings, loops of the phrase “Welcome to Shipwreck Radio” are subjected to repeated unsettling voice manipulations that become a rippling landscape of their own, stretching syllables into unnatural technological groans. Each time the phrase returns, it is slower and contains more glitch material, eventually obfuscating the source completely. As the length of the recurring phrase increases, so too does the silence between the repetitions. The slower the voice gets, the more it sounds like broken zeros and ones, high-pitched tones with little musical value. Because of this, the track feels more like an algorithmic exercise than a creative one. I can’t imagine what was going through the minds of the Norwegians tuning in to this particular broadcast, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they smacked their radios a few times thinking something was broken. In some ways, the predictable pattern of “July 13” is the antithesis of the previous track’s ability to surprise, and it’s one I probably won’t return to frequently. Even so, the force of “June 22” alone is enough to make this release an invigorating addition to the group’s catalog. From Brainwashed.

http://rapidshare.com/files/250629293/Shipwreck_Radio-_Final_Broadcasts.rar

brainwashed review http://www.brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/icr041.html

Unofficial Release:

http://rapidshare.com/files/255648560/Shipwreck_radio_unofficial_release__2004_.rar


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