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Nurse Predator & Chris Hughes
2+ albums
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Two Swimmers. There is something about the music of Nurse Predator which is difficult to grasp. It's sinuous and sophisticated, but is always slightly ahead of you. It goes where you don't expect it to. It's airy and light, yet rooted by a dubwise bass that will rattle your walls. It's not really like anything else. So then, the perfect soundtrack to the images of Chris Hughes. A unique visionary with a draughtsman's eye and a sketchbook in hand. A mail art provocateur and hometown hero. A way of looking at the world that's not like yours. One of the joys of the running the Subscription Library is having the freedom to TRY STUFF OUT. So when I heard Ade Hughes's cinematic productions and saw Chris Hughes's graphite reductions, the ludicrous idea to ask them to work together seemed spectacularly unludicrous. And so work together they did. Chris explains in his introduction, "It seemed nicely perverse to gather up the thrown to the wind drawings and wind them back into a linear composition whilst still knocking back a direct narrative. Working with Adrian I was able to adjust the content to swerve with the OST he was creating. He had all the images I was dropping into the book, so we were driving tandem from opposite sides of the country. I swear at times I could hear him and his process." It's beautiful isn't it? Like a weird, magical jazz. Two unique talents finding the space between them to produce something extraordinary. Chris would send the sketches to Ade, who
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# Why This Deserves Your Attention This collaboration presents something genuinely rare: two artists working at the edges of their respective mediums in genuine dialogue. Nurse Predator's music—sophisticated yet evasive, weightless yet anchored—creates an unusual aesthetic space that conventional categories struggle to contain. Paired with Hughes's visual vocabulary, itself deliberately oblique and unsettling, the project becomes an exploration of how meaning emerges through unfamiliar juxtapositions. Rather than illustrating each other, the music and images seem to orbit a shared inquiry: how can art resist easy comprehension while remaining deeply intentional? It's work that trusts the viewer's patience and intellectual curiosity.
