Artist : The Caretaker
Album : Take Care. It's A Desert Out There...
Year : 2018
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 212kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 48m
Size : 77.55mb
Label : History Always Favours The Winners
Catalognr : HAFTW024
Tracklist:
01. Take Care. It's A Desert Out There... 48:33
Releasenotes:
A gratis memento of The Caretaker, Ivan Seal and Weirdcore.tv performance
reimagined at The Barbican in London for Unsound Dislocation on December the
8th, 2017
Second edition of 400 copies.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu.
Cover features the painting "Blame Shines Within The Demise" by Ivan Seal. 100%
of sales from this release will be donated to the mental health charity MIND.
Ever since he wrote the extensive liner notes for The Caretaker's Theoretically
Pure Anterograde Amnesia boxset in 2005, Mark Fisher was instrumental in
contextualising the complex, abstract nature of The Caretaker's music to
beguiled listeners across the world. Along with the music of Burial and
Broadcast, for example, The Caretaker's output fell under what Fisher described
as "Hauntology" - a portmanteau of haunting and ontology which is rooted in
Derrida's study of the failure of Marxism and the left - which Fisher applied to
contemporary culture, distinguishing merely "nostalgic" and revivalist culture
from hauntological art and culture which is typified by its "refusal to give up
on the desire for the future."
The Caretaker's work, including this billowing new longform piece, has always
resonated with and fed into Fisher's ideas, so we could hardly think of a more
fitting send off from Leyland Kirby's cherished vessel. We wholeheartedly
recommend this CD, and also reading all of Fisher's work - from his collected
writings for The Wire and other publications, to his daringly seminal Capitalist
Realism: Is there no alternative?, which proposes a direct link between
increased diagnoses of mental health problems and the incessant trudge of
capitalism, and suggest a way beyond the assertion that "it is easier to imagine
an end to the world than an end to capitalism".
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