![]() ![]() The six albums were released during a three year period, from 2016 to 2019. The Caretaker wanted to convey, using music and later, degenerated music that can only be called noise, what it’s like to experience dementia from inside the deteriorating mind of a sufferer.Įverywhere at the End of Time is divided into six entire albums, each one roughly corresponding to the 7 medically recognized stages of Alzheimers Disease (or dementia due to other neurodegenerative diseases such as Lewy Body Dementia, a form of Parkinson’s that affects the brain rather than the body). For now I’m just going to focus on the music (if it can be called that) and its immediate effects on me.Įverywhere At the End of Time is an experimental/ambient musical art project (technically, “dark ambient”) by British musician and composer James Leyland Kirby (he bills himself as “The Caretaker,” after the Jack Nicholson character in the horror movie The Shining, which was also the inspiration for the haunting 1930s ballroom music that opens this album and reappears in more distorted versions at intervals throughout). I’m not exaggerating when I tell you this was the most profoundly emotional musical experience I’ve ever had. ![]() Life is weird, what can I say?Īctually, I have a lot to say. But here I am and that’s what I’m going to write about (the album, not the bored Gen Zers). I didn’t think the first post I’d write in more than two months would be about a six and a half hour long ambient album I stumbled across on Youtube because some Gen Z kids decided to challenge themselves to cry on Youtube after listening to it and thus made the original video (not their reactions, as interesting as they were) go nearly viral. Cover art for each of the 6 albums (each representing a different stage in the progression of Alzheimers/dementia) by artist Ivan Seal. ![]()
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