
James Leyland Kirby is the real name of The Caretaker, an artist formerly known as V/Vm. In recent years his tireless trawl through obsolete 78rpm discovered in a Stockport record shop have provided the source material for a ghostly new sound centred around that school of Hauntology identified by Simon Reynolds. Since moving to Berlin over two years ago, Kirby has been exploring a sound beyond the mottled loops of his 'Persistant Repetition Of Phrases', seeking to encapsulate a deep feeling of loss and alienation.
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Polaroid
The Sound of Music Vanishing
The Beauty of the Impending Tragedy of My Existence
Tonight Is the Last Night of the World
And as I Sat Beside You I Felt the Great Sadness That Day
The Arrow Of Time
This Is the Story of Paradise Lost
Ready To Go Down Together
To Reject The World
They Are All Dead, There Are No Skip At All
No Longer Distance Than Death
Not Even Nostalgia Is as Good as It Used to Be
Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was
My Dream Contained A Star
Memories Live Longer Than Dreams
When We Parted, My Heart Wanted to Die (Friedrichshain Memory)
Breaks My Heart Each Time
And Nothing Comes Between the Sadness and the Scream
Stay Light, There Is a Rainbow a Coming
Diminishing Emotion
Not as She Is Now But as She Appears in My Dreams
I've Hummed This Tune to All the Girls I've Known
To the Place Between the Twilight and the Dawn
Days in the Wilderness
Departure
We All Won That Day, Sunshine
Stralauer Peninsula
And at Dawn Armed With Glowing Patience, We Will Enter the Cities of Glory (stripped)
A Longing to Be Absorbed for a While Into a Different and Beautiful World
Last Ditch Legacy
When Did Our Dreams and Futures Drift So Far Apart?
When We Parted, My Heart Wanted To Die (Friedrichshain Memories)
Don't Sleep I'm Not What I Seem, I'm A Very Quiet Storm
Staring Down The Sun
Wdtftcs - One
Wdtftcs - Two
Wdtftcs - Three
Wdtftcs - Four
Watching and Waiting for You to Begin
Wdtftcs - Five
Wdtftcs - Six
Ruined visions
Don't Sleep I Am Not What I Seem, I'm a Very Quiet Storm
Neon lit atoms
Wdtftcs - Seven
Live for the future, long for the past
Wdtftcs - Eight
Video 2000
Wdtftcs - Nine
A1 - Consolation
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