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Recommended by us on 18th January 2012
...according to our Ant on Thu 09 Feb, 2012.
Finally the eagerly anticipated soundtrack work from Mister James Leyland Kirby's Caretaker pseudonym had landed. Apparently this was recorded prior to his last album 'An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. This is the score to film-maker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. Having not seen the film I can only imagine it complements the visuals really well as it evokes all kinds of wonderful images. Source materials for the audio come from snippets and parts of Franz Schubert works from 1927. These sounds, when in the hands of the Caretaker evoke distant lost memories and dream states. The additional production, and walls of hiss and fuzz create a sad sounding, rich sonic landscape of deep listening that ticks all the right boxes. The electronics often sound like synthesized rain and then there is the occasional pitched down vocal as on 'When The Dog Days Were Drawing To An End' add a welcome strange dynamic to proceedings. I must admit I'm unfamiliar with the source material so am unsure how much it has been chopped up and rearranged but it is the special Caretaker magic machine which re-contextualizes these recordings to make something altogether new, with an additional dose of melancholy. Each track subtly works its way into the subconscious with nods to both the past and the future. Comes housed in Ivan seals lush and mysterious artwork. Another bold statement from History Always Favours The Winners on limited edition vinyl and CD. Highly recommended.
- Long-in-the-making soundtrack to film-maker Grant Gee’s documentary about German writer WG Sebald
- Mastered and cut at Berlin’s Dubplates & Mastering
- Artwork features another commissioned painting
by Ivan Seal.
- Vinyl edition limited to 700 copies only.
- A Digipak CD edition will follow in early 2012
James Leyland Kirby returns in 2012 with his long-in- the-making soundtrack to Grant Gee's film about WG Sebald.
Patience (After Sebald) is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee. It is 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. The book mixed history, travelogue, memoir, meditation, fiction and images to explore the personal, public and often overlooked histories of Suffolk.
In 2009 Grant approached The Caretaker to work on a soundtrack for this work and he sourced out-of- copyright Franz Schubert works from 1927 including the famous work Winterreise. The soundtrack has been pieced together using snippets and fragments of this source material.
The album artwork features another specially commissioned painting by Ivan Seal, and will be available as a limited edition vinyl pressing and, later on, a Digipak CD.
01. Everything is on the point of decline 02. As if one was sinking into sand 03. Approaching the outer limits of our solar system
04. When the dog days were drawing to an end 05. A last glimpse of the land being lost forever
06. The homesickness that was corroding her soul 07. I have become almost invisible, to some extent like a dead man
08. In the deep and dark hours of the night 09. No one knows what shadowy memories haunt them to this day 10. Increasingly absorbed in his own World 11. Isolated lights in the abyss of ignorance 12. Now the night is over and the dawn is about to break
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