Leyland James Kirby, "Sadly, the Future Is No Longer What It Was" caretaker — Piper Haywood The first stage follows the template laid down by The Caretaker's breakthrough . The concept seems simple: Kirby would make loops out of pre-war ballroom jazz 78s and wax cylinders, and then manipulate them - gently at first, with . The Caretaker (real name Leyland James Kirby) began releasing the track in "stages" in 2016, and finished the piece in 2019, with each stage slowly becoming more degraded and warped. Why Are TikTok Teens Listening to an Album About Dementia? Saturn calling: the sounds of Leyland James Kirby Leyland Kirby on The Caretaker's New Project: Six Albums Exploring ... The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time James Leyland Kirby's kaleidoscopic soundscape shines brilliantly in his newest four-part EP. The Caretaker's Music Is Weird and Wonderful | Vogue In the same way we recognize something of ourselves in Leyland Kirby's [The Caretaker] appropriations of Stanley Kubrick or William Basinski's tape disintegrations. We reserve a special soft spot, though, for Kirby's work as The Caretaker. Leyland James Kirby has been chopping things up for decades. I wanted to be a bumblebee when I was a child. #ThrowbackThursday rare Interview with Leyland Kirby aka The Caretaker- who over the last two decades has been one of the singular figures in UK electronic music. Created Mar 20, 2019. The album carries an aura of invigorating positive energy which creates totally dreamlike descending into unreal and amalgamation with nature's deepest principles.