The Caretaker (musician)


The Caretaker is a long-running project by English electronic musician James Leyland Kirby. His work under the Caretaker moniker has been characterised as exploring memory and the gradual deterioration 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.
His works have received critical acclaim in publications such as The Wire and BBC Music, and the project was a favourite of BBC Radio DJ John Peel. Theoretically pure anterograde amnesia was released in 2005 as a series of 72 free MP3 downloads. The release found much critical acclaim. An Empty Bliss Beyond This World found further acclaim in 2011. Starting in 2016, a final project titled Everywhere at the End of Time was released in installments, each portion of the release representing a different stage in dementia, until with the final installment in 2019, the Caretaker character died and the moniker was retired.

Discography

As ''The Caretaker''