Nurse With Wound – Brained By Falling Masonry

The end of this 45RPM version edition of "A Short Dip In The Glory Hole" is slightly different from the 33RPM version edition. The "oh you are sick" quote from David Lynch "Eraserhead" is appearing only 2 or 3 times at a lower volume, when you have it louder and a bit more repeated on the 33RPM version. Interesting to know for maniacs, like me, about such insignificant details concerning this insane masterpiece...

A version of The Nurse which brings together Steven Stapleton, David Tibet, Crystale Quimm (aka Crystal Belle Scrodd aka Diana Rogerson), Jim Thirlwell (and yes the Foetus)…
Two faces, two rooms, two distinct territories.
A common denominator: the trip. Powerful…

A short dip in the glory hole (side B)
For the candid, do a little research on the question of the “glory hole”, you may learn something new… Still, the promise of pleasure contained in the title will perhaps not be kept as you could have hope ? Because this short dip in the glory hole will rather suck you into a painting by Jeronimus Bosch filmed by a young David Lynch and it could well be that the temerity of your adventure will be rewarded by a few bites from creatures difficult to describe... And not where it will please you the most... However, we enter this ambiguous space gently in front of a young woman who sings in silence. Unfortunately it was a very strange incantation and suddenly there was squeaking, there was screeching, nightmare seagulls and crows that smothered all horizons. Tensions build up in a cry, an inspiration... And EVERYTHING falls into a perpetual fall in the face of the young woman revealed as an angry divinity who continues her incantations. And the fall will go to emptiness, to silence, with a sentence that loops: “Oh, you are sick…” and which sends us back to another dream that is not calmer (do you Eraserhead?) .
The particularity of this piece is that within the Nurse's discography, it is the one that is closest to her feminine alter-ego, that of Diana Rogerson and her two LPs under the name Crystal Belle Scrodd, who you will run to listen to if this side speaks to you...

Brained By Falling Masonry (side A)
No one will tell you this on the cover, but this piece of bravery is none other than a successful and condensed cover of another piece of bravery: Brainticket's famous LSD trip on the 1971 album "Cottonwoodhill".
By looping the organ riff from the original, the texture of the song remains very faithful. The difference lies in the punk energy of Fœtus' singing, particularly overexcited. Another difference lies in the metaphorical central picture of the composition, worthy of the lowlands of Blade Runner. 
A piece of friendly advice: have fun listening, immerse yourself in the original or the cover without restraint. If the original is a narcotic journey into the end of the 60's, Stapleton manages the feat of updating it in an electro-punk-post-industrial perspective of the future of a parallel world and it shakes, it intoxicates, it literally cums everywhere. It’s disgusting… Should I add that it’s violently beautiful?

In the end, a rather short EP (or let's say mini-LP), but monumental in of listening experience. A work of strongly cinematic composition, an experimental cinema without images because the sounds are dripping with visual evocations and we feel good there, we are spoiled.

Without the slightest hesitation, this is a GREAT Nurse With Wound record. And what a beautiful cover… As beautiful and unhealthy as the contents.

Not credited anywhere, but "Brained By Falling Masonry" is a cover of Brainticket's "Brainticket (Part One)", from the 1970 album "Cottonwoodhill".