Night Owls

Wanting An Absolute Beyond

The original ‘The Death Of Rave’ project releases in 2006 was vast, over two-hundred flashbacks, using all of the dance floor hits from the time and stripping them of energy and spirit, turning them into shadows and ghosts. The material pre-dates the recent obsession younger musicians have for re-creating remembered rave textures and memories. This was not nostalgia, It was an inverted paean to a time when the music was about bringing people together for a shared experience. A time when only the music, advancement of sound and getting on one mattered. 

01 - Monroes Stockport

02 - Moggy & Wearden

03 - Machete's At The Banshee

04 - Acid Alan, Haggis & Scott

The original ‘The Death Of Rave’ project releases in 2006 was vast, over two-hundred flashbacks, using all of the dance floor hits from the time and stripping them of energy and spirit, turning them into shadows and ghosts. The material pre-dates the recent obsession younger musicians have for re-creating remembered rave textures and memories. This was not nostalgia, It was an inverted paean to a time when the music was about bringing people together for a shared experience. A time when only the music, advancement of sound and getting on one mattered. 


05 - Marple Libradome '91

06 - Smithy & Dave The Rave

07 - Big Eddie's Van - Bowlers Car Park

08 - XR2 Mk1 Sale Waterpark

Taken from The Caretaker album 'Persistent repetition of phrases'

THE CARETAKER - false memory syndrome

Taken from The Caretaker album 'Persistent repetition of phrases'.

THE CARETAKER - rosy retrospection

THE CARETAKER - von restorff effect

The Caretaker conjures a quieter, more introspective spirit, lost in his own mind amidst a low-lit labyrinth of ever-decaying and antediluvian shellac phrases. Sourced from a mysterious collection of 78s, these vague snippets of archaic sonics reflect the ability of Alzheimers patients to recall the songs of their past, and with them recollections of places, people, moods and sensations.

01 - All you are going to want to do is get back there

02 - Moments of sufficient lucidity

03 - The great hidden sea of the unconscious

04 - Libet's delay

05 - I feel as if I might be vanishing

06 - An empty bliss beyond this World

07 - Bedded deep in longterm memory

08 - A relationship with the sublime

09 - 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

The Caretaker returns with a long-in-the-making soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. 'Patience (After Sebald)' is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss - an exploration of the work and influence of German writer WG Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book 'The Rings Of Saturn'. The source material for 'Patience' was sourced from Franz Schubert's 1827 piece 'Winterreise' and subjected to his perplexing processes, smudging and rubbing isolated fragments into a dust-caked haze of plangent keys, strangely resolved loops and de-pitched vocals which recede from view as eerily as they appear.

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