The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time

[holyzombiejesus]

I got the 2nd part of this yesterday and it's so so brilliant. Here's the bumpf...

A series of Six albums by The Caretaker to be released over the next 3 years, slowly cataloguing the stages of early onset dementia. Each album will reveal new points of progression, loss and disintegration, progressively falling further and further towards the abyss of complete memory loss and nothingness...

Embarking on the Caretaker's final journey with his first release in four years, Everywhere At The End of Time sets off with the familiar vernacular of abraded shellac 78s and their ghostly waltzes to emulate the entropic effect of a mind becoming detached from everyone else's sense of reality and coming to terms with their own, altered, and ever more elusive sense of ontology.

The series aims to enlighten our understanding of dementia by breaking it down into a series of stages that provide a haunting guide to its progression, deterioration and disintegration and the way that people experience it according to a range of impending factors. In other words, Everywhere At The End of Time probes some of the most important questions about modern music's place in a world that's increasingly haunted or even choked by the tightening noose of feedback loops of influence; perceptibly questioning the value of old memories as opposed to the creation of new ones, and, likewise the fidelity of those musical memories which remain, and whether we can properly recollect them from the mire of our faulty memory banks without the luxury of choice

As the first in the series, and despite its typically frayed loop construction, this volume is the most lucid, as subsequent instalments will continue to move into faded obscurity and material erosion. We've only ingested this first volume so far, so we cannot predict whether the ensuing journey and results will be lush, tortuous or, perhaps more likely, an ambiguous weaving and unpicking of the two and all interstices between.

We encourage you to join The Caretaker on this, his final journey thru the endless haunted ballrooms and mazy corridors of his wasting mind...

I'm quite anxious about how these will unfold. Even the sleeves are beautifully unsettling.



Sound clips at Boomkat.

https://boomkat.com/artists/the-caretaker

[Serge]

Leyland Kirby is one of those guys whose work should be right up my street, but somehow I just don't get. Friends would rave about his stuff (usually the Caretaker albums), and I'd give them a listen and hear......nothing. I can't give a description of it because it hasn't stayed with me at all. See also: Andy Stott.

[Twed]

Was interested his disruption noise releases in the early-mid 00s, so might take a look at this.