Caretaker, The / Patience (After Sebald)
| Album: | Patience (After Sebald) | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Caretaker, The | Added: | Dec 2012 | |
| Label: | History Always Favours The Winners | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2012-12-15 | Pull Date: | 2013-02-17 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
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| Week Ending: | Feb 17 | Feb 10 | Feb 3 | Jan 27 | Jan 20 | Jan 13 | Dec 30 | Dec 23 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 20, 2018: | Music Casserole
No One Knows What Shadowy Memories Haunt Them To This Day |
4. | Feb 25, 2013: | The Sunset Life
A Last Glimpse Of The Land Being Lost Forever, When The Dog Days Were Drawing To An End, Approaching The Outer Limits Of Our Solar System |
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| 2. | Jan 09, 2018: | Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics
Everything Is On The Point Of Decline |
5. | Feb 23, 2013: | Slanford and Sponge
Everything Is On The Point Of Decline |
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| 3. | May 28, 2015: | The Sunset Life
Everything Is On The Point Of Decline |
6. | Feb 21, 2013: | The Sunset Life
Everything Is On The Point Of Decline |
Album Review
Adam Pearson
Reviewed 2012-12-14
Reviewed 2012-12-14
Grainy, hypnotic ambient. Drifting, dreamy, cyclic compositions around pianos, organs, keys and hazy tape effects, loops, and found sounds. This album is the soundtrack to the film, Patience (After Sebald). The Caretaker project was inspired by the haunted ballroom scene in Kubrick’s The Shining -- some appropriate context. This is signature James Leyland Kirby, a longtime noise/experimental/ambient artist known for his work under the V/Vm moniker and his own name. Surreal, consonant, arty, peaceful, creepy, and dream-like at the same time. No FCCS, all instrumental.
*1. Echoing ballroom piano eeriness and tape wash. (2:33)
2. Slight variation on 1, repetition can kind of get to you; beautifully numbing. (2:32)
*3. Tactile, snowed-in feel, isolation; completely engulfing. (5:40)
*4. Sounds like a locked groove on a record found in Laura Palmer’s home. Innocent, fragile, and creepy. (4:50)
5. Reserved, relaxed, almost classical. (2:56)
6. Uneasy, repetitive, simple piano. (3:37)
7. Deeper ringing tones in rhythm, and echoey darkness. (4:00)
8. Dark, dreary; another textural wash of oddly pretty gloom. (4:37)
*9. Dramatic male vocal effects and twirling keys create a macabre dance. (4:05)
*10. Sprightly, almost like springtime ballet music, but with a creepy edge. (4:24)
11. Looped weirdo tapes/percussion, really echoey and nightmarish. (4:33)
12. Operatic male vocals slowed down and gentle organ ebbs. (5:14)
*1. Echoing ballroom piano eeriness and tape wash. (2:33)
2. Slight variation on 1, repetition can kind of get to you; beautifully numbing. (2:32)
*3. Tactile, snowed-in feel, isolation; completely engulfing. (5:40)
*4. Sounds like a locked groove on a record found in Laura Palmer’s home. Innocent, fragile, and creepy. (4:50)
5. Reserved, relaxed, almost classical. (2:56)
6. Uneasy, repetitive, simple piano. (3:37)
7. Deeper ringing tones in rhythm, and echoey darkness. (4:00)
8. Dark, dreary; another textural wash of oddly pretty gloom. (4:37)
*9. Dramatic male vocal effects and twirling keys create a macabre dance. (4:05)
*10. Sprightly, almost like springtime ballet music, but with a creepy edge. (4:24)
11. Looped weirdo tapes/percussion, really echoey and nightmarish. (4:33)
12. Operatic male vocals slowed down and gentle organ ebbs. (5:14)
Track Listing