the caretaker

the caretaker ~ patience (after sebald) (history always favours the winners, 2012)

"... James Leyland Kirby returns with a long-in-the-making soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. 'Patience (After Sebald)' is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss - an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book 'The Rings Of Saturn'. Much like The Caretaker's oeuvre, Sebald's works are particularly focused on themes of memory, both personal and collective, making Kirby the ideal candidate for this score. Grant tasked him with soundtracking responsibilities, but rather than thrift shop shellac, the source material for 'Patience' was sourced from Franz Schubert's 1927 piece 'Winterreise' and subjected to his perplexing processes, smudging and rubbing isolated fragments into a dust-caked haze of plangent keys, strangely resolved loops and de-pitched vocals which recede from view as eerily as they appear. Mastered and cut by Lupo at D&M, the album is adorned with another specially commissioned painting by Ivan Seal..." boomkat

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the caretaker

the caretaker ~ an empty bliss beyond this world (history always favours the winners 2011)

"...Leading medical research explains how Alzheimer's patients who endure increasing memory loss can still recall songs from their distant past. The prefrontal cortex is among the last brain regions to atrophy. With this in mind, The Caretaker once again recalls fifteen occasions where memories were locked in a timeless and haunting loop. The Caretaker is the work of James Leyland Kirby, also sometimes known as Leyland Kirby and The Stranger" experimedia
"...His new material is marvellous. Timeless. A collision of Past and Future Tense. The metaphysical Clock of History has began ticking again. We can now re-embrace the Future." kid shirt

'all you are going to want to do is get back there' es lo más bonito y atemporal que he escuchado desde if i never touch you de cap n' jack...'todo lo que querrás hacer es volver allí una y otra vez'. 'libet's delay' es la elegancia absoluta, fragmentos que nos trasladan al hotel overlook de kubrik y nos llena de nostalgia entre crujidos de vinilo y viejas canciones de los años veinte.

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