The Caretaker
Patience (After Sebald)
HAFTW013LP
History Always Favours The Win
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- Everything Is On The Point Of Dec
- As If One Were Sinking Into Sand
- Approaching The Outer Limits Of O
- When The Dog Days Were Drawing To
- A Last Glimpse Of The Land Being
- The Homesickness That Was Corrodi
- I Have Become Almost Invisible, T
- In The Deep And Dark Hours Of The
- No One Knows What Shadowy Memorie
- Increasingly Absorbed In His Own
- Isolated Lights On The Abyss Of I
- The Night Is Over And The Dawn Is
Originally released in 2012. 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«. Much like The Caretaker's oeuvre, Sebald's works are particularly focused on themes of memory, both personal and collective, making Kirby the ideal candidate for this score.
Grant tasked him with soundtracking responsibilities, but rather than thrift shop shellac, 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. Mastered by Lupo at D&M, the album is adorned with another specially commissioned painting by Ivan Seal.
