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The Caretaker
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Description: | CD on History Always Favours the Winners in new artwork |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Dark Ambient | |
| Label: | History Always Favours the Winners | |
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£9.29
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| Availability: | Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry! |
...according to our Phil on 03 May 2010.
The Caretaker is the alter ego of that lovely James V/Vm fella. As V/Vm he makes a right old (textured) racket as a rule.... but as The Caretaker it's a much more sedate affair. To sum the music up easily you have to go no further than the title of his first album' Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom'. That's exactly what the music sounds like.... old ballroom music with crackles and whizzles, all lopped up in the most eerie way imaginable. It's like the ghosts of yesteryear have taken over the stereo and what you can hear are a load of old folks memories. The only things missing are the bingo wings (or nan flaps...)and the voices. Hey you'll be old soon so don't diss the old folks...... life shoots by and before you know it you'll be zooming your way info your grave like there's no tomorrow. 'Persistent Repetition of Phrases' is the strongest work I've heard so far by The Caretaker. Both haunting and beautiful... I like this lots
Having already been chosen as one of The Wire magazine’s top 10 albums of 2008, as well as featuring on numerous ‘end-of’year’ charts, The Caretaker’s highly acclaimed ‘Persistent Repetition Of Phrases’ is finally made available again on CD, the inaugural release on James Kirby’s very own ‘History Always Favours the Winners’ label. James Kirby's work as The Caretaker has always dealt with the suggestion of haunted memory and the obscuring of temporal motion, and this album makes that more explicit than ever, with titles that reference amnesia, Alzheimer's, past life regression and other such memory misfires and short circuits. Musically, this album might be compared to Philip Jeck's manipulated vinyl tracts, featuring similarly oceanic swells of crackle and dust, with faded pianos or big band sounds wafting wraith-like across the mix. After conjuring the sinister atmospherics of The Shining with his debut album ‘Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom’, The Caretaker has been chasing this idea of sound leaving its indelible mark on a space and time, so consequently these creepy, semi-dissolved musical passages sound no more tangible than shadows, and the album for the most part comes across as some sort of séance held via wax cylinder. Arguably the most accomplished and rewarding Caretaker album to date,
1/. Lacunar Amnesia, 2/. Persistent Repetition Of Phrases 3/. Rosy Retrospection 4/. Long Term (Remote) 5/. Poor Enunciation 6/. Past Life Regression 7/. False Memory Syndrome 8/. Von Restorff Effect 9/. Unmasking Alzhiemer's
