The Caretaker

The Caretaker is the recording alias of Leyland Kirby, an English electronic musician whose work uses sampled early 20th-century ballroom recordings and processing to explore memory, nostalgia and decay.

The Caretaker is an alias of Leyland Kirby. Notable releases include An Empty Bliss Beyond This World and the multi-stage project Everywhere At The End Of Time, which thematically engages with memory loss and dementia.

A highly positive, poetic review of Selected Memories From the Haunted Ballroom. The Caretaker's work is described as a hallucinatory reworking of 1920s dance music, evoking decay, memory and melancholic elegance. The review awards the album 5/5.

For:Listeners of experimental ambient, hauntology and plunderphonics; readers interested in musical explorations of memory, decay and nostalgia.