Ahh, could you try again? My ilxmail (old address) was full, but it's good to receive again now!
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 17 December 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
Sent again!
― toby, Sunday, 17 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
Got it! :)
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 17 December 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
did you all get the email about the free download?
THE CARETAKER - 'TAKE CARE. IT'S A DESERT OUT THERE...'(FREE DOWNLOAD)
Today as The Caretaker I arrive in your inbox bearing a digital gift.Please find below some download links to a free Caretaker release.This long form piece was created in collaboration with my Friend Ivan Seal.Created in memory of and for the late great Mark Fisher with proceeds raisedfrom all CD sales being donated in full to MIND. It is music for reflection.
Copies of the CD were given away to the audience for free at The CaretakerBarbican performance in London last December with last remaining copies being sold today via Boomkat.
There will be no future repress.
100% of the sales money donated to MIND.
Feel free to download the audio for free viathe WeTransfer links below. MP3: http://ymlp41.com/wewalaebqmualaywataubmsh/click.phpWAV: http://ymlp41.com/weqaoaebqmuaxaywakaubmsh/click.phpFLAC: http://ymlp41.com/weyavaebqmuavaywalaubmsh/click.php
(i got this last week and haven't checked the links...)
― koogs, Friday, 13 April 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
Would anyone have the tracks from his 365 project (where he posted a track or two a day for a year)? Most were pretty average, but would love to hear 'pancake day' again. No longer online and the HDD I had my music on at the time is long gone. Soulseek alerts haven't delivered.
― S-, Sunday, 3 March 2019 23:54 (five years ago) link
oddly, i was looking at the disks that my copy of this was on only yesterday...
http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/vvmt365_0228_pancakeday.mp3
― koogs, Monday, 4 March 2019 08:33 (five years ago) link
You wouldn't happen to have the full 365-project in mp3 would you? It's something of a holy grail for me!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 March 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
i do, but i don't have the space or the bandwidth to upload about a gig of data.
― koogs, Monday, 4 March 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link
Ah man! Not even via wetransfer? Been searching for it for absolute ages.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 March 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
the bandwidth for wetransfer is still a gig.
i can do a dvd in the post (he says, wondering if he has any blank dvds)
― koogs, Monday, 4 March 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
That would be fantastic! I'll reimburse any costs obv. Can I ilxmail you?
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 March 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link
(my ilxmail doesn't work, apparently, if you give me an email addy i'll be in touch)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 March 2019 09:51 (five years ago) link
have just checked and i can send ilx mail to myself, so feel free.
it's not very good, mind.
― koogs, Monday, 4 March 2019 09:54 (five years ago) link
So he did this a full 7 years before Dominique Leone, lol
I compiled a 28-track best-of for Leone - would be fun to see if either of you fancies doing the same for this
― imago, Monday, 4 March 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
― koogs, Monday, March 4, 2019 10:54 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm aware, but that's not really the point :) Will be in touch.
Lj I'd def make a 28-track best of V/vm's 365!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 March 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
The Caretaker 1999-2019
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
Very curious to hear how he sees this through to the end.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
I tried Part V but it really didn't work for me. Hopefully this last chapter is up to a little more.
― Simon H., Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
Same, V was one of the weaker ones of the series for me too. Stoked for this one though.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:38 (five years ago) link
I quite 'liked' its utter apathy. Granted, it requires a more conceptually-minded ear, which I'm generally not willing to lend (I prefer reading to hearing about concepts).
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 March 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
It's a fiver for the entire 50 track digital version (lossless even) from bandcamp. Which is too much of a bargain.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
and there's a pay-what-you-want bonus download here:
https://thecaretaker.bandcamp.com/album/everywhere-an-empty-bliss
EVERYWHERE, AN EMPTY BLISS
*AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ONLY UNTIL JUNE 16th, 2019.
Work on 'Everywhere, at the end of time' was all consumingas you can imagine. All work and no play, all work and no play.
In celebration of its completion and only for a limited time*here is a surprise golden farewell.
Compliments of the house.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
Part IV was the one that didn't really work for me -- abrasive for the sake of being abrasive. V was less heavy, but more devastating. VI seems to continue down that path, I'm loving it so far.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 14 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
https://boomkat.com/products/everywhere-an-empty-bliss
― djh, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
hows this bloke made a living out of playing old 78s through a reverb pedal, proper dont get it
― meaulnes, Saturday, 6 April 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
I am enjoying it but did think similar things the other day - is he creating these things from scratch or curating them? And if the latter, where from, because I'd be interested in hearing the originals.
(Archive.org has a bunch of 78s available to listen to. British library site might also have some)
― koogs, Saturday, 6 April 2019 05:24 (five years ago) link
Doesn't he break them all down into tiny bits and reassemble them, though? Like the Avalanches with a very specific pool of records.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Sunday, 7 April 2019 07:15 (five years ago) link
Go and listen to some of the records he samples and you'll hear how he isn't "playing them through a reverb pedal" ffs
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 April 2019 08:18 (five years ago) link
That sounds plausible, yes. They are mostly devoid of vocals for one thing and I think they've been spooked up a bit. I like them, I bought the first Haunted Ballroom thing back in the day, but I can see why people wouldn't.
― koogs, Sunday, 7 April 2019 08:20 (five years ago) link
meaulnes comment reminds me of all the frustrated cliches loud tourists spout in the abstract expressionism sections in any given museum, among the paintings by Newman, Rothko, Pollock etc.
― Evan, Sunday, 7 April 2019 11:51 (five years ago) link
Obvious comparisonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCdTvwMusshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l236v7FfNBs
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 7 April 2019 12:25 (five years ago) link
fianlly getting around to some of the later cds in the series (well, sides E and F. mp3 player only had space for the first couple) and they seem like they are edited badly - the tracks all finish suddenly, like they are truncated. wonder if it's the (unfamiliar) player?
― koogs, Friday, 21 June 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3543ctrl+f for Caretaker, since there's sadly no index
the live show was truly a caretaker affair, very weird, troll-like, and a challenge to the stage performance format
I caught all the antics but, when the true-to-album music was accompanied by more serene visuals, caught a short nap in the middle due to jet lag
he's still got it
― mh, Monday, 21 October 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
That sounds like classic Caretaker :) Did he croon his way through 'I write the songs'?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link
no crooning this time, although there was an entire segment where he sat in a comfy chair next to another dude drinking whiskey
once the pig mask/boxing match/battle of ambient intro was over, there was a very noisy part where the animation was a walk-through of a mansion where album art for his different releases were on the walls. my impression, which my friend thought seemed correct, was that as we were walking closer to the art, tracks would increase in volume. so it was a bunch of material all playing at the same time, until it kind of evened out (and I passed out from travel lag)
― mh, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
when I saw him in 2010 (wow, time flies) he sang The Way We Were
― mh, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
I stand corrected, he crooned along to a distorted Mick Hucknall music video
― mh, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 13:42 (four years ago) link
Whole days of stuff, now pay what you wanthttps://leylandkirby.bandcamp.com/album/we-drink-to-forget-the-coming-stormhttps://vvmtest.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-of-rave-the-sourcehttps://vvmtest.bandcamp.com/album/the-death-of-rave-additional
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
I can only listen to bits of Everywhere at the End of Time, it's so emotionally overwhelming that I either have to tune out or force myself to listen. I can't imagine what it must've been like making this and having to listen to each section dozens of times. anyway, probably the single most profound album that I never want to hear again
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bm06ml
James Acaster's Perfect SoundsThe Caretaker's Everywhere At The End of Time is a 6-hour project exploring the descent into dementia. It had a profound effect on James, but what effect will it have on Jen Ives?
― koogs, Friday, 21 October 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
I flew ten hours to a festival, ate a small amount of food and had one beer before falling asleep at a Caretaker show (not my first!) right after he did a stage bit in a mask in 2019 ama
the video bits of wandering through The Shining-esque halls were good for sleep
― mh, Saturday, 22 October 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
I can only listen to bits of Everywhere at the End of Time, it's so emotionally overwhelming that I either have to tune out or force myself to listen.
I bought this on Bandcamp some time ago (after buying and liking Patience (After Sebald), but I haven't listened to the whole thing until today. I've spent a good part of the day listening straight through. It's . . . quite something. I think it's put me in an alternate state of consciousness.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 21:58 (four months ago) link
He just posted a big update on FB announcing he's forced to put his stuff on streaming services due to so many people stealing his music and trying to monetize it themselves.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:45 (four months ago) link
IIRC, I originally found out about his work as the Caretaker because I liked his work as the Stranger. No recollection where I found out about that work. Watching Dead Empires in Decay was in pretty regular rotation for me for a while.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 22:48 (four months ago) link
Was not familiar with him, but my friend had an extra ticket to his show at Lincoln Center (https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/the-caretaker-moor-mother-673)
Really enjoyed his music, was just surprised that the show also included lip-synching and pretending to play an inflatable guitar to Heroes by David Bowie.
At other times he read an upside down book, drank whiskey, and stood staring and nodding at the audience.
― mizzell, Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:11 (four months ago) link
what, no pig mask or boxing match?
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:26 (four months ago) link
a pig mask was on his table of gear, but i don't think he put it on (i didn't have my eyes open the whole time).
― mizzell, Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:32 (four months ago) link
Whaaaatts oh fuck fuck fuck I was in New York that day
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 14 December 2023 16:33 (four months ago) link