• Stairway To The Stars Maywood

Stairway To The Stars Maywood

• Jun 28, 2011 - James Kirby (The Caretaker) “There is a reverence with much of The. We'll All Go Riding On A Rainbow or A Stairway to the Stars on vinyl.
• My introduction to the Caretaker was Stairway to the Stars, specifically the release on lovely blue vinyl - a true fetishistic object of desire.The music appeared to be hanging in the air at an.

Sims 4 installing mods. 80'Everything Is on the Point of Decline' opens Patience (After Sebald) and sets the tone for the rest of the album, its darkly regal melody and aged hiss evoking a descent into a midnight blizzard. Throughout the rest of the score, Kirby crafts a remarkably varied amount of nuanced moods with his samples and processing. From track to track, the hiss ranges from assaulting to soothing, sounding like blasting winds or water under ice; on 'Approaching the Outer Limits of Our Solar System,' it suggests a vast swath of space separating the listener from the melody. 80Leyland Kirby has been making music as the Caretaker since 1999, but 2011 proved to be the project's breakthrough year.

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World was the right record at the right time, a meditation on decay and loss that was beautiful on the surface but also had layers to peel. It reached listeners with only a passing interest in music from the experimental sphere, much in the manner of William Basinski's early-millennium series Disintegration Loops, because it brought together ideas about archives, appropriation, memory, and the accretion and disappearance of cultural objects. 72The CaretakerPatience (After Sebald)History Always Favors The Winners; 2012By Will Ryan; February 14, 2012Purchase at: Insound (Vinyl) Amazon (MP3 & CD) iTunes MOGTweetLeyland Kirby's The Caretaker moniker was named after Jack Nicholson's character in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and takes its atmospheric cues from the haunted ballroom at that film's center. It's a theme that has remained with the project since its inception with 1999's Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom and 2001's masterful A Stairway to the Stars. It makes sense that The Caretaker's handful of releases have remained so consistent. Leyland Kirby's most recent effort, much like, but unique from, those released previously, exists as a faded daguerreotype of passing time and time passed. Commissioned as the score for Grant Gee's most recent film, Patience (After Sebald), it's an amorphous miasma of echoing antiquity, evoking a time prior to the advent of colour film as a crackling grey scale roll.

All tracks recorded and reproduced for V/VM Test Records. Made in Northern England 'A Stairway To The Stars' is derived from reprocessed 1930s ballroom music and memories collated by 'The Caretaker' from the haunted ballroom.

This record collects the works of Austrian composer Franz Schubert and morphs them into a gloomy meditation on the sure, comforting absurdity of existence.