1961 is a special year.
Not only is it a rare strobogrammatic number (the next will be 6009) but it is also the birth year of the twin brothers Nigel & Klive Humberstone.
For their new studio album, In The Nursery have taken inspiration from the historic, literary and personal events of 1961.
“1961 is a spectacularly articulate album that never ceases to reveal new layers, new corners, new depths.”
Christopher Nosnibor – Aural Aggravation.
“Right from the opening bars of first track “Until Before After”, it’s strikingly clear that you’re listening to something quite special…………..This album is a master-craft of controlled musicianship and restrained emotion; something only experience can convey.”
Damned Industrial
Artist: In The Nursery
Title: 1961
Label: ITN Corporation
Catalogue number: corp035
Release date: 03.11.17
Special Edition CD and Digipak available now from the ITN Shop
- Until Before After
The resilience of memory. - Torschlusspanik
This track musically depicts the construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Torschlusspanik is a combination of three German words – literally translating to “gate-shut-panic”. - Consul
Is built around the binaural and electromagnetic recordings of a 1961 Ford Consul. When idling, the engine resonates at the frequency 65 Hz – the note of C. - Grand Corridor
The Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital in the grounds of Cliveden, Taplow, Buckinghamshire is where the twins were born in 1961.
Originally built in 1914 as a military hospital the facility became a civilian hospital and a centre for research into rheumatism in children. The hospital was closed in 1985 and lay derelict for more than two decades, becoming notorious, along with the 1/4 mile long Grand Corridor, as one of Britain’s most haunted hospitals. - Retrofire
Celebrates the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once in Vostok 1.
Gagarin described hearing a whistle and an ever-growing din as the rocket trembled all over, and tore itself off the launchpad.
“The noise was no louder than one would expect to hear in a jet plane, but it had a great range of musical tones and timbres that no composer could hope to score, and no musical instrument or human voice could ever reproduce.” Yuri Gagarin - Pacify
Pacify take it’s anti-war sentiments and inspiration from the 1961 novel Catch-22, a powerful satire of military bureaucracy. - Solaris
This tracks takes inspiration from Solaris, the 1961 philosophical science fiction novel by renowned Polish novelist Stanislaw Lem.
The combination of a sentient ocean and incarnate memories forces the quest to truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within. - Prisoner Of Conscience
Features a lament, written and performed in French by Dolores Marguerite C, that makes reference to Amnesty International which was founded in London in 1961, following the publication of the article “The Forgotten Prisoners” in The Observer by the lawyer Peter Benenson. - The Earth Was Blue
1961 was a monumental year for pioneering space travel – this track takes the perspective of Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard, each looking down at the earth.
Looking forward to this! I’ve been a fan since your earliest albums.
Excellent! My first experience with In the Nursery came way back when, as I was discovering what it was about music that I actually enjoyed. It was the mid-90’s and I was celebrating my new-found adulthood by blowing my pay checks on CD’s. There was an underground music store in my little midwestern city that had the best arrangement of artists and bands I had ever seen. One such was, of course, In the Nursery. I picked up “Lingua,” knowing absolutely nothing about the group (but EVERYTHING about gambling with new music). It was quite a listen. “The Living Tongue” still gets to me today.
I’m happy to see that ItN is still making music. I have changed a lot of my spending habits in the past twenty years or so, but I still love coming across new stuff that is both moving and creative. Looking forward to “1961” and digging deeper into the ItN discography (if funds allow….).
A new ITN album is always cause for celebration. Clearly 1961 was a vintage year. Looking forward to hearing this.
The fall of Usher Great music for a Great film