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The Caretaker

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The Caretaker project began in late 1996 in Stockport, England by Leyland Kirby, undoubtedly inspired from the ballroom scene in Stanley Kubrick's "Shining". The first release played and extended this theme of altering 1920s and 1930s ballroom music creating an eerie and haunted soundworld. Subsequently the sound has become darker and often more abstract over time, moving away from the initial idea of a haunted ballroom into territories involving the mind and its abilities to recall memories.

Top songs

  1. A1 - It's just a burning memory
  2. Libet's delay
  3. A2 - We don't have many days
  4. All you are going to want to do is get back there
  5. A4 - Childishly fresh eyes
  6. A3 - Late afternoon drifting
  7. B1 - All that follows is true
  8. A6 - Things that are beautiful and transient
  9. The great hidden sea of the unconscious
  10. A5 - Slightly bewildered
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  1. B2 - An autumnal equinox
  2. B6 - My heart will stop in joy
  3. Moments of sufficient lucidity
  4. I feel as if I might be vanishing
  5. B4 - The loves of my entire life
  6. An empty bliss beyond this World
  7. B3 - Quiet internal rebellions
  8. Camaraderie at arms length
  9. B5 - Into each others eyes
  10. The sublime is disappointingly elusive
  11. A relationship with the sublime
  12. Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
  13. C2 - Misplaced in time
  14. Pared back to the minimal
  15. Tiny gradiations of loss
  16. F2 - Drifting time misplaced
  17. Bedded deep in long term memory
  18. C3 - What does it matter how my heart breaks
  19. F6 - An empty bliss beyond this World
  20. C1 - A losing battle is raging
  21. D2 - Quiet dusk coming early
  22. E1 - Back there Benjamin
  23. C5 - Surrendering to despair
  24. C4 - Glimpses of hope in trying times
  25. D5 - The way ahead feels lonely
  26. F7 - Libet delay
  27. D3 - Last moments of pure recall
  28. D1 - I still feel as though I am me
  29. E2 - And heart breaks
  30. E8 - Long term dusk glimpses
  31. D4 - Denial unravelling
  32. E3 - Hidden sea buried deep
  33. E5 - To the minimal great hidden
  34. E4 - Libet's all joyful camaraderie
  35. F1 - Gradations of arms length
  36. E6 - Sublime beyond loss
  37. E7 - Bewildered in other eyes
  38. False Memory Syndrome
  39. It's just a burning memory
  40. F5 - Aching cavern without lucidity
  41. F8 - Mournful cameraderie
  42. F4 - Burning despair does ache
  43. F3 - Internal bewildered World
  44. Mystery
  45. R1 - Stage 6 Place in the World fades away
  46. G1 - Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions
  47. As if one were sinking into sand
  48. When the Dog Days Were Drawing to an End
  49. Everything is on the Point of Decline
  50. I Have Become Almost Invisible, to Some Extent Like a Dead Man
  51. H1 - Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions
  52. Lacunar Amnesia
  53. A Last Glimpse of the Land Being Lost Forever
  54. Mental caverns without Sunshine - reprise
  55. O1 - Stage 6 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting
  56. I1 - Stage 4 Temporary Bliss State
  57. An empty bliss beyond this World - reprise
  58. Approaching the Outer Limits of Our Solar System
  59. Past Life Regression
  60. Persistent Repetition of Phrases
  61. Increasingly Absorbed in His Own World
  62. J1 - Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions
  63. We don't have many days
  64. Long Term (Remote)
  65. Rosy Retrospection
  66. The Homesickness that was Corroding Her Soul
  67. K1 - Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements
  68. In the Deep and Dark Hours of the Night
  69. Late afternoon drifting
  70. Childishly fresh eyes
  71. P1 - Stage 6 A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat
  72. Cloudy, Since You Went Away
  73. Von Restorff Effect
  74. Q1 - Stage 6 Long decline is over
  75. Poor Enunciation
  76. No One Knows What Shadowy Memories Haunt Them to this Day
  77. L1 - Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements
  78. Slightly bewildered
  79. M1 - Stage 5 Synapse retrogenesis
  80. Things that are beautiful and transient
  81. N1 - Stage 5 Sudden time regression into isolation
  82. Isolated lights on the abyss of ignorance
  83. All that follows is true
  84. Now the Night is Over and the Dawn is About to Break
  85. I Feel As If Might Be Vanishing
  86. An autumnal equinox
  87. We Cannot Escape the Past
  88. Loss of want back there
  89. Quiet internal rebellions
  90. And bliss everywhere bliss

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