2012, History Always Favours the Winners
VINYL FORMAT. Limited edition of 700 copies. 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, and will be available as a limited edition vinyl pressing and, later on, a digipak CD.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Everything is On the Point of Decline |
| 2 | As If One Was Sinking Into Sand |
| 3 | Approaching the Outer Limits of Our Solar System |
| 4 | When the Dog Days Were Drawing To an End |
| 5 | Last Glimpse of the Land Being Lost Forever |
| 6 | Homesickness That Was Corroding Her Soul |
| 7 | I Have Become Almost Invisible, To Some Extent Like a Dead Man |
| 8 | In the Deep and Dark Hours of the Night |
| 9 | No One Knows What Shadowy Memories Haunt Them To This Day |
| 10 | Increasingly Absorbed In His Own World |
| 11 | Isolated Lights In the Abyss of Ignorance |
| 12 | Now the Night is Over and the Dawn is About To Break |
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