- 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.
