Artist: Leyland Kirby
Leyland Kirby's lyrics & chords
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. What started out as a concept ...read more
Tiny gradiations of loss A relationship with the sublime I knew this was the end An empty bliss beyond this world Mental caverns without sunshine Moments of sufficient lucidity Pared back to the minimal The sublime is disappointingly elusive Bedded deep in long term memory I feel as if i might be vanishing A longing to be absorbed for a And at dawn armed with glowing Emptiness Lacunar amnesia Persistent repetition of phrases False memory syndrome On top of some world or another We are enemies but not here
