Jon Fletcher describes the release as "the labyrinthian set is a k-hole for the mind. Doran also sees the album as "a change in direction for the project conceptually, as it started to explore different aspects of memory loss as the music itself became more texturally and structurally complex." Reynolds identifies it as a shift in the sound, "disorienting in its scale and abstraction", with his period 2005-2008 "exploring similar zones of queasy amorphousness". Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia was released in 2005 as a series of 72 free MP3 downloads. Never less than beautiful, it was just hard to conceive of actually needing any more of it." 2005–2008: Amnesia period By the time of the third release though, it was hard to imagine what more could be done with the project. These early forays have the allure you find in childhood ghost stories. Kubrick’s film, like the best horror, still injects a thrill and there a remnant of comfort in being haunted, a strange warmth. Despite the uncanny affect and despite the eeriness, there is something warmly seductive about this debut triptych. These first releases flitted from bursts of noise (September 1939) to gaseous ambience (We Cannot Escape The Past) to subtly-soaked moments of outright beauty (Stardust). The mannered romantic swing of a bygone era is rendered beguilingly uncanny. It's a stranger’s past relocated within your own memories, a re-imagined history from an alien past. "instantly recognisable musical identity of British tea-room pop (dance-band and swing music from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s) plugged into a multitude of effects to create a Proustian Replicant inverse. Simon Reynolds refers to the Caretaker's first three releases as "the haunted ballroom trilogy", spanning 1999-2003: Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom, A Stairway to the Stars, We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow.
History 1999–2003: Haunted Ballroom trilogy The Caretaker's works have received critical acclaim in publications such as The Wire, The New York Times, and BBC Music. His first several releases comprised treated and manipulated samples of 1930s ballroom pop recordings. The project was inspired by the haunted ballroom scene in the 1980 film The Shining. His work as the Caretaker is characterized as exploring memory and its gradual deterioration, nostalgia, and melancholia.
The Caretaker was a long-running project by English ambient musician Leyland James Kirby (born ).
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