The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

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1 - All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There
2 - Moments Of Sufficient Lucidity
3 - The Great Hidden Sea Of The Unconscious
4 - Libet's Delay
5 - I Feel As If Might Be Vanishing
6 - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
7 - Bedded Deep In Long Term Memory
8 - A Relationship With The Sublime
9 - Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
10 - Pared Back To The Minimal
11 - Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
12 - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
13 - Tiny Gradiations Of Loss
14 - Camaraderie At Arms Length
15 - The Sublime Is Disappointingly Elusive

Note: videos may not match the album...

4...according to our Ant on Tue 07 Jun, 2011.

This one of James Leyland Kirby's many projects needs little introduction since the last album 'Persistent Repetition Of Phrases' cemented it in the hearts and minds of global music lovers. And so the theme of the project essentially remains the same, that is of memories which are embedded deep within ones subconscious yet can be recalled. Alzheimer's patients are still able to recall songs from the past and so this could be a glimpse into their minds. With the previous record these memories were barely tangible and blurred but here the clarity increases. Armed with a selection of obscure ballroom 78s Kirby samples and manipulates the original source material, complete with crackle and the decay of time. At various points within these memories they are clear and at others blurred and distorted. I like to think that if I ever suffer from memory loss I'll still be able recall KLF's pure trance mix of 'What Time Is Love'.

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Brand new album from James Leyland Kirby’s The
Caretaker following on from the 2008 album
“Persistent Repetition Of Phrases”

Mastered and cut at Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering

Artwork features another specially commissioned
painting by Ivan Seal.

Available on a Digipak CD edition, as well as a
limited vinyl pressing.

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, The Stranger and
V/VM.

Tracklisting:

01 All you're going to want to do is get back there

02 Moments of sufficient lucidity
03 The great hidden sea of the unconscious
04 Libet's delay
05 I feel as if I might be vanishing
06 An empty bliss beyond this World
07 Bedded deep in long term memory
08 A relationship with the sublime
09 Mental caverns without Sunshine
10 Pared back to the minimal
11 Mental caverns without Sunshine
12 An empty bliss beyond this World
13 Tiny gradiations of loss
14 Camaraderie at arms length
15 The sublime is disappointingly elusive