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The Caretaker
electronic artist James Kirby
Since 1974
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James Leyland Kirby (born 9 May 1974), known professionally as the Caretaker, is an English ambient musician. His work as the Caretaker is characterized by exploring memory and its gradual deterioration, nostalgia, and melancholy. The project was initially inspired by the haunted ballroom scene in the 1980 film The Shining, the 1978 TV show Pennies from Heaven, and the 1962 film Carnival of Souls. His first several releases comprised treated and manipulated samples of 1930s ballroom pop recordings. Most of his album covers were painted by his friend, Ivan Seal.
The Caretaker's works have received critical acclaim in publications such as The Wire, The New York Times, and BBC Music.
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James Leyland Kirby (né le 9 mai 1974 à Stockport, en Angleterre), mieux connu sous le nom de The Caretaker, est un compositeur britannique de musique électronique. Depuis 1996, il publie des albums sous le nom de V/Vm, The Caretaker ou encore Leyland Kirby. Ses premiers albums sortent sur le label Fat Cat. Il est également à la tête du label V/Vm Test Records où sont maintenant publiés la majorité de ses disques.
Il vit actuellement à Berlin et est l’un des artistes phares du mouvement hantologie.
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Discography
Albums
- 1999 Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom
- 2001 A Stairway to the Stars
- 2003 We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow
- 2006 Additional Amnesiac Memories
- 2006 Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia
- 2007 Deleted Scenes / Forgotten Dreams
- 2008 Recollected Memories From the Museum of Garden History
- 2008 Persistent Repetition of Phrases
- 2011 An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
- 2012 Patience (After Sebald)
- 2014 We drink to forget the coming storm
- 2016 Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 1)
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- 2017 Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 2)
- 2017 Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 3)
- 2017 Take Care, It’s a Desert Out There…
- 2018 Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 4)
- 2018 Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 5)
- 2019 Everywhere, an empty bliss
- 2019 Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 6)
- 2024 Everywhere at the end of an empty bliss
