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Leyland Kirby
12+ albums
ambientdroneexperimentalinstrumentalelectronica
about
James Leyland Kirby is the real name of The Caretaker, an artist formerly known as V/Vm. In recent years his tireless trawl through obsolete 78rpm discovered in a Stockport record shop have provided the source material for a ghostly new sound centred around that school of Hauntology identified by Simon Reynolds. Since moving to Berlin over two years ago, Kirby has been exploring a sound beyond the mottled loops of his 'Persistant Repetition Of Phrases', seeking to encapsulate a deep feeling of loss and alienation. What started out as a concept for a single album, soon blossomed into a triple double-vinyl series, and triple CD pack as the material proliferated. To give some background to the feelings exposed in this music Kirby himself says "Here we stand, twenty years on from the first CD, and our optimism has been gradually eroded away collectively. 'Tomorrows World' never came. We are lost and isolated, many of us living our lives through social networks as we try to make sense of it all, becoming voyeurs not active participants. Documenting everything. No Mystery. Everything laid bare for all to see". User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Polaroid
12,2592The Sound of Music Vanishing
4,7213The Beauty of the Impending Tragedy of My Existence
4,4604Tonight Is the Last Night of the World
4,3025And as I Sat Beside You I Felt the Great Sadness That Day
4,2566The Arrow Of Time
3,8097This Is the Story of Paradise Lost
3,4738Ready To Go Down Together
3,4169To Reject The World
3,38210They Are All Dead, There Are No Skip At All
3,376albums
SMM: Context
Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was
Eager To Tear Apart The Stars
Breaks My Heart Each Time
We drink to forget the coming storm
We, so tired of all the darkness in our lives
Intrigue & Stuff (Vol. 1)
John Cale: Extra Playful Transitions
Untitled 10 (The Black Album)
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Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (Disc 1)
When We Parted My Heart Wanted to Die Vinyl
Bleep: 100 Tracks 2011