Homotopy to Marie

Homotopy to Marie is the fifth album by Nurse with Wound, released in 1982. Although Nurse with Wound had generated considerable interest across their preceding releases, Steven Stapleton has asserted to author David Keenan that Homotopy to Marie should be considered the first "real" NWW album. In Keenan's book England's Hidden Reverse, Stapleton states that this was the first album he made without intervention, the original trio line-up having dispersed in 1980. Although J. G. Thirlwell participated in some of the sessions and is thanked on the album's sleeve, this is effectively a Steven Stapleton solo album and he would retain sole curatorship of NWW from this point onwards. The album was the result of a block booking made by Stapleton at IPS Studios in London, reserving every Friday evening for a whole year. It is, as Keenan notes, audibly less musically conventional than its predecessors and relies on Stapleton's improving abilities of tape-editing and construction, honed during these Friday evening sessions. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotop...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)