Label: United Dairies

2024年重要作!!高額で取引される激レア・レースカット盤が20分のボーナスを追加しまさかのCD化!!1980年に初めて出会ったNurse With WoundとBladder Flask。本作はBladder Flaskの歴史的81年1st[One Day I Was So Sad…]のリリース40周年を記念して、そのリミックスを依頼されたSteven Stapletonが2021年に新たに作り上げた[Backside]の初リイシュー版。もともとは厳ついペイントが施された限定100部レースカット盤で出ていたものですが、Babs Santiniによる新たなアートワーク+ボーナス音源が追加された拡張仕様となっています。

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New studio album featuring Bladderflask. Originally issued as a limited edition Lp lathe cut.

STEVE STAPLETON, ANDREW LILES AND RICHARD RUPENUS

Contains 20 minutes extra material. New cover art by Babs Santini.

Track Listing

Backside

Chernobyl Picnic

Backside (Cloud Chamber)

Nurse With Wound and Bladder Flask first crossed paths in 1980. The following year saw the release of NWW’s fourth album, Insect & Individual Silenced and Bladder Flask’s debut (and in fact only) album, One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met & Everybody Thought I Was Whistling (Orgel Fesper Music.) The LP quickly came to the attention of Steven Stapleton who distributed it via United Dairies and had the following to say when later interviewed for The Wire’s Invisible Jukebox feature:

‘…I love the Bladder Flask album – and what a great title, perhaps my favourite ever…’

The fact that One Day I Was So Sad… was distributed via United Dairies gave rise to rumours that Bladder Flask was NWW working under an assumed name. However, Stapleton was soon to set the record straight. Although certain similarities are obvious, Bladder Flask’s work was a lot less refined than NWW, ‘…a seemingly random mix of Dada, Free Improvisation and Musique Concrete – with a big dollop of absurdism thrown in for good measure, sounding at times as though The Goons had somehow gained control of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop!…’

In 1981 there were plans for a second Bladder Flask album to be issued on United Dairies but (for various reasons) the project was shelved.

With the 40th anniversary of the One Day I Was So Sad… LP, Richard Rupenus approached Steven Stapleton with a view to him remixing/reworking some Bladder Flask material, an invitation which Stapleton was happy to accept. However, rather than merely remixing/reworking existing Bladder Flask, Stapleton has created a brand new work which magnificently fuses both artists’ sense of the absurd.