Taking Care

Before I take care (o b) I have a couple things to mention.

First, need to apologize to anyone whose re-upload request I have shirked or anyone to whose comments I have been vague in replying. 

 

About ten days ago some nefarious cold/flu mutation invaded Casa Nada del Este. First Black Dahlia fell under its grip, then Lao Elanya. Being the stubborn bull-headed Taurus that I am. I refused to give in & so for about five days I walked the quavering tightrope between sick & well. Finally I took a KO punch to the head & tumbled hard. I am just now coming out of the fog. 

 

It is such a weird sickness that we all took COVID tests just to see, but they all registered negative (the only good thing about this whole disease). It's been like the worst imaginable cold with heavy doses of influenza weirdness, chills & aches (but no fever).

So just wanted to say sorry for any vaguery. Should be back to form soon.

Second, for anyone interested in the machinations of the whole Interweb/Blogger bullshit that I have to endure, you might want to go back to Sound Systember. You might notice that Sound Systember 24 is no longer to be found. It suffered the rage of a Blogger take-down...a simple share of Roots Garden Sound System/Manasseh that was deemed by Blogger Cummunity Guidelines to be SPAM.

WTF! 

 

The Spam section of the guidlines seems plenty succinct:
     SPAM - Do not spam. This may include unwanted promotional or commercial content, unwanted content that is created by an automated program, unwanted repetitive content, nonsensical content, or anything that appears to be a mass solicitation.

Well it was none of those (no more nonsensical than usual), but nothing I can do but comply. I added an addendum on Sound Systember 25 to replace some of the missing material & explain what's up. But enough...

On with the show... 

 

Prompted by the previous Burial conversation, I shared several releases from Leyland James Kirby using the moniker The Caretaker. Got a lot of favorable response, so here are some more. The first two are from the Stranger, another nom de musique of Kirby's. 

 

The Stranger - The Stranger, Phthalo Records PHTHALO07, 1997.
all decryption codes in comments

The Wind is Blowing Cold Across the Moor
Over the Moor, I'm on the Moor
The Mists are Rising
Let Me be Void Still
Some People Need the Heroes
Like a Happy Child Lost in a Sudden Dream
I'll be Seeing You

 

 

 

 

The Stranger - Bleaklow, V/Vm Test Records VVMTCD26, 2008.

Something to Do with Death
Exposure
Exhumation
Solemn Dedication
Indefinite Ridge
Kirkbymoorside
Inverted Burial
Bleaklow
Bob Greaves
A Melody Dreags Me Back
Ominous Sunset

 

 

 

 

Then one under the name his birth name Leyland Kirby.

 

Leyland Kirby - Eager to Tear Apart the Stars, 

History Always Favours the Winners HAFTW010, 

2011.

The Arrow of Time
This is the Story of Paradise Lost
To Reject the World
No Longer Distance than Death
They are All Dead, There are no Skip at All
My Dream Contained a Star

 

 

 

 

& one by the Caretaker personae...

 

The Caretaker - Everywhere, an Empty Bliss, 

History Always Favours the Winners HAFTW-DL-010, 

2019.

Loss of Want Back There
I Might Be Vanishing
Empty Beyond Beyond Beyond
Losing Battle of Loss
Advanced Plaque Camaraderie
All Eyes Bewildered
Glimpses of Life Denial
Equinox Eyes Will Stop
Losing Loss of Battle
Plaque Advanced Despair
Benjamin Beyond Bliss
Drifting Sublime Hope
Minimal All You Are
Internal Unravel
Dusk Memory Fraction
Entanglement Synapse Ache
And Bliss Everywhere Bliss

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ

Back to the Drawing Board

This is not what I had planned for the next two months. 

But this is what I do, 

so... 

 

 

While I was working through some damaged sounds in my P folder of Musick that Needs Work, I shared Pye Corner Audio. This touched off a brief dialogue that began with this comment.

MarkyD sez:
     "Thanks NØ. I desperately want to like Pye but couldn't really enjoy Hollow Earth or Let's Emerge. I suppose I want my hauntology to be more James Kirby. I will listen to these with more humility." 

 

 

 

Leyland James Kirby is a cult-favorite English musician otherwise known as The Caretaker. The Caretaker references Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson's slowly unraveling hotel groundskeeper in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The Caretaker debuted with 1999s Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom, glitchy waltzes that echo through your most haunted empty ballroom.

 

 

The Caretaker - Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom, 

V/Vm Test Records OFFAL02, 1999.
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Engagements -
The Haunted Ballroom   
By the Seaside   
One Thousand Memories
Haunting Me   
A Summer Romance   
Den of Iniquity   
Dream Waltz   
A Handful of Stars   
Request Dance   
In the Dark   
Reckless Night   

Interval -   
Thronged with Ghosts   
From Out of Nowhere   
Friends Past Reunited   
You & the Night   
Moonlight Seranade   
Disillusioned   
The Revolving Bandstand   
Garden of Weeds   
"Excuse Me" for Ladies   
In Days of Old   
September 1939   
Thanks   
The Haunted Ballroom   
Untitled

 

 

 

The Caretaker is most known for his breakthrough 2011 release An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. Arranged from edits of Jazz Age ballroom tunes found on forgotten 78s in dollar bins worldwide. Kirby re-worked the dusty samples to crackle, loop, & fade indiscriminately, repeating themselves or abruptly changing course. The record is as dreamy as it is unsettling, trapping the listener into the locked groove of someone else's distant memories.

 

 

The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, History Always Favours The Winners, 2011.

All You are Going to Want to Do is Get Back There   
Moments of Sufficient Lucidity   
The Great Hidden Sea of the Unconscious   
Libet's Delay   
I Feel as if I Might Be Vanishing   
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World   
Bedded Deep in Long Term Memory   
A Relationship with the Sublime   
Mental Caverns Without Sunshine   
Pared Back to the Minimal   
Mental Caverns Without Sunshine   
An Empty Bliss Beyond This World   
Tiny Gradiations of Loss   
Camaraderie at Arms Length   
The Sublime is Disappointingly Elusive

 

 

 

 

 

Over time, the Caretaker has explored the theme of neurodegenerative illness, using his records themselves as metaphors for the progressive failure of the human mind.

Here The Caretaker provides you with a 72 track release offered for free via downloadable MP3s on the official V/Vm website, seventy-two memories in which to lose yourself. It is the aural sound of "Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia", a condition where it's impossible to remember new events. This is a release of audio designed to be forgotten with few reference points appearing from a dense audio fog of an amnesiac condition.

 

 

The Caretaker - Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia, V/Vm Test Records, 2005.

Memory One   
Memory Two   
Memory Three   
Memory Four   
Memory Five   
Memory Six   
Memory Seven   
Memory Eight   
Memory Nine   
Memory Ten   
Memory Eleven   
Memory Twelve   
Memory Thirteen   
Memory Fourteen   
Memory Fifteen   
Memory Sixteen   
Memory Seventeen   
Memory Eighteen   
Memory Nineteen   
Memory Twenty   
Memory Twenty One   
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Memory Twenty Nine   
Memory Thirty   
Memory Thirty One   
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Memory Thirty Five   
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Memory Thirty Seven   
Memory Thirty Eight   
Memory Thirty Nine   
Memory Forty   
Memory Forty One   
Memory Forty Two   
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Memory Fifty   
Memory Fifty One   
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Memory Sixty   
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Memory Seventy   
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Memory Seventy Two

 

 

 

 

Enjoy,
NØ 

 

This is what I had planned for the upcoming month...