Simon Woolf LIke tman1015, I am a little scared of this album. It is a deeply shocking and accurate musical portrayal of senile dementia -inasmuch as I've (sadly) observed members of friends and family become gradually subsumed by it. Yet it is captivating, there are many moments of beauty along the way. I cannot stop going back for another listen. STAGE 3 - (E+F) Here we are presented with some of the last coherent memories before confusion fully rolls in and the grey mists form and fade away. Finest moments have been remembered, the musical flow in places is more confused and tangled. As we progress some singular memories become more disturbed, isolated, broken and distant. These are the last embers of awareness before we enter the post awareness stages.
Stage 6 - A Confusion So Thick You Forget Forgetting. 2. Stage 6 - A Brutal Bliss Beyond This Empty Defeat. Files metadata include vinyl track positions in the title field: - O1 - Stage 6 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting - P1 - Stage 6 A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat - Q1 - Stage 6 Long decline is over - R1 - Stage 6 Place in the World fades away. Other Versions (3 of 3) View All. Cat.
After a time, the mood turns ominous. But in subsequent parts Kirby brings The Caretaker into agonizing new realms. These latter volumes attempt to capture the "post-awareness" stages, the point at which the patient no longer realizes they have a problem. The music becomes unstable and patience-testing. Kirby has called Everywhere At The End Of Time's last three stages an attempt at making "listenable chaos. By Stage Six, this approach reaches a harrowing peak. By putting the listener in the place of someone who is losing their mind, Everywhere At The End Of Time translates something unimaginable through a more easily understood medium: the manipulation and decay of recorded sound. The closing track, "Place In The World Fades Away," ends the series with one final drone. Then, 15 minutes in, it stops.
It’s first three albums- Stage 1, Stage 2, and Stage 3 -felt like retreads of sounds and ideas the Caretaker’s earlier masterpiece already perfected. But if Everywhere at the End of Time’s trajectory felt predictable at the halfway point, the dark, disorienting Stage 4 marks a total reconfiguration. It’s the Caretaker’s best record since Empty Bliss while evolving its sound in new and often frightening ways
1. Stage 4: Post Awareness Confusions. 3. Stage 4: Temporary Bliss State. 4. 5. Stage 5: Advanced Plaque Entanglements. 6. 7. Stage 5: Synapse Retrogenesis. 8. Stage 5: Sudden Time Regression Into Isolation. 9. Stage 6: Confusion So Thick You Forget Forgetting. 10. Stage 6: A Brutal Bliss Beyond This Empty Defeat
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The Caretaker despatches the final scene of a 20 year-long act that has uncannily lurked in the shadows of so many of our listening lives. Clad for the last time in Ivan Seal's specially comissioned artwork, this final stage sees The Caretaker mirroring the ultimate descent into dementia and oblivion, again using a patented prism of sound to connote a final, irreversible transition into the haunted ballroom of the mind that he first stepped into in 1999.
The Caretaker is a long-running project by electronic musician James Leyland Kirby, who also records as V/Vm. His work under the Caretaker moniker has been characterised as exploring memory and the gradual deteoriation of it, nostalgia, and melancholia. Initially the project was inspired by the haunted ballroom scene in the 1980 film The Shining, with his first several releases consisting of treated and manipulated samples of '30s ballroom pop recordings.