An Empty Bliss Beyond This World

by The Caretaker

An Empty Bliss Beyond This World cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 June 2011
  • Label: History Always Favours The Winners
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 45:27
  • Community rating: 4.13/5 from 17 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Leyland Kirby uses looped samples of pre-war ballroom music to explore the concept of Alzheimer's disease and memory loss. The crackling, degrading audio creates a profound sense of decay and forgotten elegance. It is a haunting conceptual work that is both beautiful and terrifying.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, sampling, atmospheric, experimental, ambient, lo-fi, conceptual, minimal, sample-heavy, droning, nostalgia

Tracklist

  1. All you are going to want to do is get back there
  2. Moments of sufficient lucidity
  3. The great hidden sea of the unconscious
  4. Libet's delay
  5. I feel as if I might be vanishing
  6. An empty bliss beyond this World
  7. Bedded deep in longterm memory
  8. A relationship with the sublime
  9. Mental caverns without Sunshine
  10. Pared back to the minimal
  11. Mental caverns without Sunshine
  12. An empty bliss beyond this World
  13. Tiny gradiations of loss
  14. Camaraderie at arms length
  15. The sublime is disappointingly elusive

Credits

  • Ivan Seal - artwork
  • Loop-o - mastered by
  • The Caretaker - recorded by, other [remembered by]

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