Shipwreck Radio

Released2004–2006

Recorded2004

GenreExperimental

LabelICR

Shipwreck Radio Volume One
Studio album by Nurse With Wound
Released	2004–2006
Recorded	2004
Genre	Experimental
Label	ICR
Producer	Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter
Nurse With Wound chronology
Angry Eelectric Finger (2004) Shipwreck Radio Volume One (2004) Echo Poeme Sequence No. 2 (2005)
Shipwreck Radio Volume Two
the second 2CD set

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 the 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.^[2] Many of the broadcasts treated or manipulated the two introductory voices with one consisting 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.