That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all.
April 28, 2019 5:26 AM Subscribe
Everywhere at the End of Time is an "upsetting" and "almost irrationally ambitious" six-part album by The Caretaker AKA Leyland Kirby, musically interpreting the progressive dementia of that character from The Shining. The full album on YouTube, Bandcamp.
From the Fluid Radio review of volume 6: "For The Caretaker, the end is inevitable. Permanent. The ballroom glows. Submerged, decomposing melodies grow in volume." (CW: mental health)
A companion album, Everywhere An Empty Bliss, is available on the house through June 16 via Bandcamp. It's "one last chance to raise a charged glass for those we lost along the way, for all the works, for those ghosts from our past, for our uncertain future and for The Caretaker”. (Factmag)
A generous interview with Kirby at Quietus.
A companion album, Everywhere An Empty Bliss, is available on the house through June 16 via Bandcamp. It's "one last chance to raise a charged glass for those we lost along the way, for all the works, for those ghosts from our past, for our uncertain future and for The Caretaker”. (Factmag)
A generous interview with Kirby at Quietus.
I've been following this project since its initial volume - fascinating idea. I still haven't made it to the sixth volume, as I always wanted to listen to the full project in a maximum of two sittings (which is hard (for me), as it's around 6.5 hours long).
But as luck would have it, this post goes up while I'm listening to volume 5, so I'm confident today'll be the day when I finally get a full picture of the album.
posted by bigendian at 6:50 AM on April 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
But as luck would have it, this post goes up while I'm listening to volume 5, so I'm confident today'll be the day when I finally get a full picture of the album.
posted by bigendian at 6:50 AM on April 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
I've been to all the links in this FPP and I'm completely baffled about how this work might somehow be connected to The Shining other than having the project umbrella The Caretaker lightly inspired by the Haunted Ballroom scene in said film. Nowhere in any of the linked material is there any connection drawn between Charles Grady or Dick Halloran.
The album is the story of progressive dementia told through sound, I get that (based on what I've read) but where is this other assertion coming from?
posted by hippybear at 7:47 AM on April 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
The album is the story of progressive dementia told through sound, I get that (based on what I've read) but where is this other assertion coming from?
posted by hippybear at 7:47 AM on April 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
Those of you attuned to the weirder corners of late 90’s IDM/mashup scene may know Mr. Kirby from his V/Vm project, fyi.
posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear at 10:11 AM on April 28, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by a box and a stick and a string and a bear at 10:11 AM on April 28, 2019 [3 favorites]
Gonna listen to this from 6 to 1, Memento movie style.
posted by otherchaz at 10:35 AM on April 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by otherchaz at 10:35 AM on April 28, 2019 [1 favorite]
where is this other assertion coming from?
The characteristic sound seems to be based on "hauntological" remixing of pre-war dance music like the music from the film. It's obvious that others in this thread are more familiar with this project than I am, but the reading I did this week gave me the impression that this was an essential part of the concept rather than a "light" inspiration.
The Factmag links says that's where the moniker came from. In the Bandcamp link for Everywhere at the End of Time says "may the ballroom remain eternal," and the page for Everywhere An Empty Bliss has a reference to raising a glass to the ghosts of the past with a proper quote from the film.
posted by heatvision at 3:33 AM on April 29, 2019
The characteristic sound seems to be based on "hauntological" remixing of pre-war dance music like the music from the film. It's obvious that others in this thread are more familiar with this project than I am, but the reading I did this week gave me the impression that this was an essential part of the concept rather than a "light" inspiration.
The Factmag links says that's where the moniker came from. In the Bandcamp link for Everywhere at the End of Time says "may the ballroom remain eternal," and the page for Everywhere An Empty Bliss has a reference to raising a glass to the ghosts of the past with a proper quote from the film.
posted by heatvision at 3:33 AM on April 29, 2019
This reads like something i'd like, but I don't know if i'll be able to keep with the theme?
posted by ArgentCorvid at 3:02 PM on April 29, 2019
posted by ArgentCorvid at 3:02 PM on April 29, 2019
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The second time was for another unreleased track for a compilation I was putting together to give away at my record shop and also to purchase records directly from him for the shop as it was cheaper to cut out the multiple distributors that were between him in Europe and myself in Canada. That also fell apart due to mental logistics. (And I never did get a track from him, though the comp had numerous wonderful songs from his contemporaries.)
I found him to be a generous spirit addled by logic (dates; deadlines; concrete concepts) who preferred to feel his way around things without the burden of yeses to others but empowered by yeses to himself.
That's my armchair psychologist filtered through a decade of muddy memory. Regardless of its use or acuracy, I love his music and take delight in his longevity. Those who find The Caretaker too... whatever, may find something in his more traditionally ambient Leyland Kirby output.
posted by dobbs at 5:53 AM on April 28, 2019 [4 favorites]