Two short stories by Xavier Forneret, set to music by Nurse With Wound.
A wealthy Romantic, Xavier Forneret published his writings and theater at his own expense. Legend has it that he fell asleep every night in an ebony coffin, which André Breton later opened to recognize one of Lautréamont's precursors. Could Le diamant de l'herbe and Un crétin et sa harpe, the two short stories here set to music by Nurse With Wound, prove the point?
A French Romantic poet virtually unknown in his day, Xavier Forneret (1809-1884) was the author of an original body of work, marked by the macabre and the unusual, which was self-published and then rescued from oblivion by the Surrealists, who considered Forneret a precursor of automatic writing.
A British music project formed in 1978 by
Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak,
Nurse With Wound (now Stapleton's variable geometry project) is an essential figure of English
experimental and
industrial music since the early 80's. With more than 150 releases, alone or with other musicians, Stapleton has swept widely different musical styles, from industrial music to mambo, through electronics, improvisation, electroacoustics, with a lot of humor.
