Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 1

by The Caretaker

Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 1 cover art

The first installment of Leyland Kirby's harrowing, six-part sonic simulation of early-onset dementia. In this initial stage, the music is still beautiful and largely coherent, utilizing looped, crackling 1920s and 30s ballroom jazz samples that evoke a hazy, dreamlike nostalgia. It lulls the listener into a false sense of security before the terrifying structural decay of the subsequent chapters begins.

Genres

  • Turntable Music
  • Ambient
  • Hauntology

Tracklist

  1. A1 - It's just a burning memory
  2. A2 - We don't have many days
  3. A3 - Late afternoon drifting
  4. A4 - Childishly fresh eyes
  5. A5 - Slightly bewildered
  6. A6 - Things that are beautiful and transient
  7. B1 - All that follows is true
  8. B2 - An autumnal equinox
  9. B3 - Quiet internal rebellions
  10. B4 - The loves of my entire life
  11. B5 - Into each others eyes
  12. B6 - My heart will stop in joy
  13. C1 - A losing battle is raging
  14. C2 - Misplaced in time
  15. C3 - What does it matter how my heart breaks
  16. C4 - Glimpses of hope in trying times
  17. C5 - Surrendering to despair
  18. D1 - I still feel as though I am me
  19. D2 - Quiet dusk coming early
  20. D3 - Last moments of pure recall
  21. D4 - Denial unravelling
  22. D5 - The way ahead feels lonely
  23. E1 - Back there Benjamin
  24. E2 - And heart breaks
  25. E3 - Hidden sea buried deep
  26. E4 - Libet's all joyful camaraderie
  27. E5 - To the minimal great hidden
  28. E6 - Sublime beyond loss
  29. E7 - Bewildered in other eyes
  30. E8 - Long term dusk glimpses
  31. F1 - Gradations of arms length
  32. F2 - Drifting time misplaced
  33. F3 - Internal bewildered World
  34. F4 - Burning despair does ache
  35. F5 - Aching cavern without lucidity
  36. F6 - An empty bliss beyond this World
  37. F7 - Libet delay
  38. F8 - Mournful cameraderie
  39. G1 - Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions
  40. H1 - Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions
  41. I1 - Stage 4 Temporary Bliss State
  42. J1 - Stage 4 Post Awareness Confusions
  43. K1 - Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements
  44. L1 - Stage 5 Advanced plaque entanglements
  45. M1 - Stage 5 Synapse retrogenesis
  46. N1 - Stage 5 Sudden time regression into isolation
  47. O1 - Stage 6 A confusion so thick you forget forgetting
  48. P1 - Stage 6 A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat
  49. Q1 - Stage 6 Long decline is over
  50. R1 - Stage 6 Place in the World fades away