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The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stages 1-6 (Complete)

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The complete six-stage album series Everywhere at the End of Time by The Caretaker, about 6.5 hours of music that depicts the progression of dementia through distorted, decaying old ballroom recordings.

HN recommends it, often emotionally, as an auditory depiction of memory loss, in threads about dementia and aging.

Music performance & songs#thecaretaker#darkambient#dementia#ballroom#memoryloss

6 comments from Hacker News

@rglover2025 · in “The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind”

Semi-related: not delirium, but if you haven't come across it, check out the "Everywhere at the end of time" series of albums. The music is written to track the timeline of dementia progressing [1]. [1] ▶ this video

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@saulpw2024 · in “Memory for music doesn't diminish with age”

Thematically related is the music of The Caretaker. It's haunting and beautiful and quite memorable. Check out An Empty Bliss Beyond This World[0], which is kind of a nice album for some melancholy reflection on age and the experience of dementia. His final 6-album sequence, Everywhere At The End Of Time[1], is less accessible, particularly the final 3 albums which are mostly noise (the whole 6-hour work was a terrifying listening challenge on TikTok a few years ago). [0] link [0] link [1] ▶ this video

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@fallinditch2024 · in “Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]”

Check out the 6 album cycle that depicts the gradual degradation of dementia: Everywhere at the end of time by The Caretaker. A brilliantly imaginative work. ▶ this video Chatgpt: This ambitious project was released in stages (or "stages") from 2016 to 2019, across six albums, each representing a different phase of dementia. Through his distinctive use of manipulated pre-World War II ballroom music, The Caretaker, aka Leyland Kirby, explores the progression of the disease, from subtle early signs to the total disintegration of memory and understanding. The work is both an artistic exploration and an empathetic representation of the condition's impact on the human mind and memory.

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@datameta2021 · in “Organ transplant patients may not get dementia”

The statistical prevalence of dementia is absolutely shocking to me... It is bar none one of the worst experiences one can go through. This [0] is an album that is an auditory approximation of it. I sincerely hope for more discourse and research dedicated to understanding, preventing, and treating it. [0] ▶ this video

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@Red_Tarsius2020 · in “'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (2018)”

I've recently discovered Everywhere at the End of Time by the Caretaker (James Kirby). It's a series of six music albums exploring and depicting memory loss, Alzheimer's disease and dementia. I wish I had the writing skills necessary to convey the emotional turmoil I went through by listening to the six stages in one sleepless night. ▶ this video I also appreciated the attention to the details from the track titles to the choice of album covers. The last image – a broken canvas seen from behind – is especially haunting. It's the kind of experience that makes you re-evaluate many life choices.

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@pantelisk2020 · in “I created an alternative to the YouTube algorithm to stop me wasting time”

(Please see the reply I left to Krasnol). So, if you just gave me a search-bar and have me play music, it would be post-rock or metal. And what I get on spotify is a bunch of post rock and black/death metal. Which is fine, but predictable and kinda boring. But youtube manages to recommend to me things that aren't in my alley, but I somehow end up loving. (just a random sample from music) "Heilung - Lifa" - link "The caretaker at the end of time" - ▶ this video "Babe Rainbow - Secret Enchanted Broccoli Forest" - link A whole new genre called DungeonSynth - link And one called Witchhouse - link And Sovietwave goth - link Uhh, drum n bass n sax?? - link And the latest weird recommendation a San Jose band called Sunami. Oh And This! - link ---- I wouldn't be searching for any of that on my own. But I love all of it (ended buying merch from quite a few "youtube recommended" artists). To me that is as successful a recommendation system as it can be. It shows me things I didn't even know I 'd love! From Jazz, to Funk, to Ambient, to SovietWave goth, to psychedelic rock, the list is always expanding.... I was never that open minded, but now I am. Maybe this is more on me and how my personality evolved through the years than on youtube's recommendations... --- But you can see that many people had the same happen to them by how popular comments like this are -> "You didnt find this video. It found you." Or "I would love to know what I did to make this come up in my suggested v

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