released 4-10-2024
wait no go back
go all the way back
length: 1h48m11s
average song length: 3:36.366
amount of swear words: 0
At the beginning of 2021, when I was 16, I started listening to The Caretaker's work. In April of 2021, i began a Caretaker-derivative fan project.
I worked on it diligently throughout the spring, but when summer came and it was time for me to do the hard part of recreating Caretaker music (the post-awareness crud), I hit a wall. This was too hard! I decided to change the narrative of my project so that the person experiencing the progression of dementia gets an aneurysm and dies.
I knew this was a cheap cop-out, but I decided to still make myself do one post-awareness track, but I never did. My interest in the project slowly fizzled out, and by 2022 I was barely even making Caretaker fan songs anymore.
I still have some respect for The Caretaker's work (when he's actually mashing up the songs with a potato masher), but I have no respect for "Pour Sombre"'s efforts. I cannot speak on the intentions of The Caretaker himself, but I know that I personally was not treating this real neurodegenerative condition with the courtesy it deserves. I was using it for spectacle.
I had cover art for each stage, but I lost them when I switched to a new laptop.
I'm uploading this album as a goodbye to this somewhat embarrassing phase I went through.
tracks
samples "It's All Forgotten Now" by Al Bowlly (backed by Ray Noble and his Orchestra)
samples samples "Sing You Sinners" by Smith Ballew
samples "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by Russ Morgan and his Orchestra
samples "Home" by Layton & Johnstone
samples "Something to Remember You By" by Tommy Christian & his Orchestra
samples "You Try Somebody Else" by Ted Black and his Orchestra
samples "Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail" by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
samples "Happy-Go-Lucky You and Broken Hearted Me" by the Casa Loma Orchestra
samples "Sweet and Lovely" by Guy Lombaro and his Royal Canadians
samples "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" by the Victor Salon Orchestra
samples "Pale Moon" by Fritz Kreisler
samples "Love (Your Spell Is Everywhere)" by Gloria Swanson
samples "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" by Al Bowlly (backed by Ray Noble and his Orchestra)
samples "Fancy little Nancy." by Wheeler Wadsworth
doesn't sample anything (i recorded this one quickly in audacity because i couldn't find B6)
samples "Indian Love Call" by the Victor Salon Orchestra
samples "A broken heart." by the National String Quartet
samples "Drink to me only with thine eyes." by Albert Spalding
samples "Happy-Go-Lucky You and Broken Hearted Me" by the Jack Hylton Orchestra
samples "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by Russ Morgan and his Orchestra
samples "Lying in the Hay" by Layton & Johnstone
samples "What Will I Tell My Heart" by Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol
samples "Heartaches" by Geraldo & his Orchestra
samples "It Can't Be Wrong" by Geraldo and his Orchestra
might sample "Ko Maka Palupanu (Soft Eyes)" by the Toots Paka Hawaiian Troupe
samples "Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail" by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
samples "It's All Forgotten Now" by Al Bowlly (backed by Ray Noble and his Orchestra)
samples "Pale Moon" by Fritz Kreisler and "Only a Northern Song" by The Beatles
samples multiple things, all of which are smashed up beyond recognition
samples "As once in happier days." by Vladimir Dubinsky
samples "Was It a Dream?" by Layton and Johnstone
samples "Caprice viennois." by George Hamilton Green
samples "Happy days." by Elizabeth Spenceer
samples "Ave Maria" by Marie Rappold and Albert Spalding
samples "What Is Life Without Love? (Que Es La Vida Sin Amor)" by The Columbia Photo Players
samples "You Better Change Your Ways" by Ted Daffan and his Texans
A1 - Our troubles are gone beyond recall (3:25)
A2 - Just you and me (2:52)
A3 - I'll never forget you (2:41)
A4 - Our heaven for two (3:33)
A5 - A smoke to calm the mind (2:55)
A6 - Ignorance is bliss (3:03)
A7 - The fog begins (3:18)
A8 - Something gone here and there (3:21)
A9 - Final moments of happiness (3:33)
B1 - The abandoned consciousness (2:52)
B2 - A creeping loneliness (3:30)
B3 - Strangers on the walls (3:30)
B4 - The last of the granted (2:45)
B5 - Grey skies never blue (3:24)
B6 - Torn white flag in the wind (0:31)
B7 - Timeless becomes timed (4:33)
B8 - Too tired to fight (5:14)
B9 - A gut-strangling fear of what is to come (4:33)
C1 - Something here and gone (3:05)
C2 - Never I'll get for you (3:13)
C3 - Fitful dreams becoming a harrowing reality (1:33)
C4 - Strangers becomes timed (3:49)
C5 - Feigned lucidity as the madness progresses (3:34)
C6 - A creeping troubles (4:35)
C7 - Infinite tunnels of doleful despair (2:48)
C8 - Yearning no more (3:08)
C9 - Gone beyond recall (4:16)
C0 - Final moments (3:37)
The Rupture, Pt. 1 (8:06)
The Rupture, Pt. 2 (8:00)
the warm flicker beckons (bonus) (1:12)
infinite missing of doleful there (bonus) (1:12)
days long gone (bonus) (3:07)
the song we fell in love to (bonus) (1:31)
too far gone (bonus) (3:07)
and my view leaves my body as the credits roll (bonus) (3:07)