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12/27/2019

Leyland Kirby – We, so tired of all the darkness in our lives (2017)




  • Modern classical 
  • Post-classical 
  • Ambient 
  • Electronic music 
  • Art music 
  • Epic 
  • Contemporary classical 
  • Hauntology

Comment: Leyland Kirby is one of the most enchanting composers today, especially thanks to the project The Caretaker which is a platform to unite oldie ballroom music elements with modern aspects and technology in a haunting manner. We have a loads of the so-called modern classical composers worldwide who either mingle piano music with electronic music and ambient or turn it into ambient music with electronic flavours. However, there is the one and only Leyland Kirby whose solo project has been managed to differentiate between past-driven flashbacks and contemporary classical music though the task is not easy at all to show up. Elements of hauntology are still represented over this course with the windy progressions of ambient music and a loose, rather exhaustive rhythmic backbone. By having visited a graveyard some hours before the experience of mine thereafter places the music to the right place (especially after seeing two graveyards of women who recently are gone being slightly older than Leyland Kirby). It is somehow somber and haggard under its burden of experience of time and space, past and present, upcoming decay and knowledge of having no knowledge at least. The last part may be a person's first explicit premise of living. On the other side, an instance of original music and art in general is certainly something more stately and autarkic in its entirety and independence. That mystical spark is an immersive melancholic flow through an artsy, classy form of music. Great stroke indeed.