In A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat, The Caretaker uses sounds originated from what appear to be engines, as well as a de-tuned trombone, eerie voices and an old piano, which add a very dark and introspective feeling of loneliness and unavoidable despair. The four songs released on this 6th part (you gotta have them all to really understand the artist's philosophy!) are longer than 21 minutes and the titles are functioning as explanations of the whole concept: "Confusion so thick you forget forgetting" (my favourite) or the closing track: "Place in the world fades away". You can hear lots of cracklings and rustles in this record and almost all the samples used are slightly off-beat and with reverbs and delays added. The Caretaker's huge and impressive project deals with themes like social angst, isolation and mental health issues, illustrated sonically by dark ambient atmospheres and bits originated from long-forgotten songs that were released for gramophone playback, in a way that preserves the original sounds and their signs of degradation. Enough said about the novel or movie, let's focus on the peculiar textures of this music. This 6th part, released by the History always favours the winners label is the final one.Īs the cultural critic Mark Fisher puts it, this music is "preoccupied with ideas about memory and nostalgia" and finds creativity in observing haunted places, places that were once drowned in people, dancing in ballrooms or just living in (now empty) places like hotels, just like the one Stephen King wrote about in his novel "The Shining". The series aims to enlighten our understanding of dementia by breaking it down into a series of stages that provide a haunting guide to its progression. The Caretaker says goodbye with Everywhere at the end of time Įxclusively inspired by "The Shining", Stanley Kubrick's cult movie starring Jack Nicholson as the lead character, The Caretaker uses lots of dark atmospheres and drones that haunt you since 1999, when the series of "Everywhere at the end of time" started.
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