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The Caretaker

Patience (After Sebald)

Label: History Always Favours The Winners

Format: LP

Genre: Library/Soundtracks

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Now over a decade old, this 2012 album is the soundtrack to acclaimed filmmaker Grant Gee's documentary about German writer WG Sebald. It’s been out of print since 2013 and remains a lesser known gem in The Caretaker catalogue.

James Leyland Kirby returns in 2012 with his long-in-the-making soundtrack to Grant Gee's film about W.G. Sebald. Patience (After Sebald) is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee. It is an exploration of the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book The Rings Of Saturn (1995). The book mixes history, travelogue, memoir, meditation, fiction and images to explore the personal, public and often overlooked histories of Suffolk. In 2009, Grant approached The Caretaker to work on a soundtrack for this work and he sourced out-of-copyright Franz Schubert works from 1927 including the famous work "Winterreise." The soundtrack has been pieced together using snippets and fragments of this source material. The album artwork features another specially-commissioned painting by Ivan Seal. Mastered and cut at Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering. 

"Kirby isn't just making nostalgic music, he's making music that mimics the fragmented and inconclusive ways our memories work." --Pitchfork (8.2)


- "Kirby invented this whole 'haunted ballroom' thing, taking the Gold Room from The Shining as its point of departure. How could he be anything other than the best at it? Not many other artists share the same goals, which I suppose is one good reason to invent such a focused concept. He is outstanding in a field of one." --Dusted Magazine

Details
Cat. number: HAFTW013-LP
Year: 2023
Notes:

Soundtrack to the Grant Gee film.