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LEYLAND KIRBY - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (Limited Vinyl Edition, Part 2 in a series of 3)

LEYLAND KIRBY - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (Limited Vinyl Edition, Part 2 in a series of 3)
History Always Favours The Winners
2LP // £14.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Released: Oct 2009
Catalogue Number: HAFTW006-LP

*PART 2 OF 3 INCREDIBLY LIMITED VINYL EDITIONS - 450 COPIES ONLY FOR THE WORLD* While the profound impact of the first edition in this series has now had time to seep into the consciousness of anyone lucky enough to have grabbed one of the few copies made available, the scene is now ripe for James Leyland Kirby to deliver a beautiful second set of transmissions under the deeply pessimistic title 'Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was'. We may be a little biased towards Kirby's work, having rabidly followed his arc for over 10 years now, but in our opinion this is quite possibly his most full-bodied and well-realised body of work to date, featuring the composer in the midst of a deep melancholy. It's a personal issue, one that Kirby has bravely opened himself up to, in order share with a faithful and understanding audience the tangible feelings of nostalgia, or a "sehnsucht" connected to those pieces of music which have shaped our world and ellicited the most visceral but often confusing inner responses. Although it's not stated by the artist, we can largely assume some influence from the neon-etched synthscapes of Vangelis on the title track. It features a sweeping motif reminiscent of the Yamaha CS-80 synthline used to score the Bladerunner 'End Titles', only morphed, submerged and heard through different ears, while attempting to savour that shared experience of dystopian and deeply evocative industrial sci-fi imagery that's been embedded onto the longterm memory of this generation. On 'And Nothing Comes Between The Sadness And The Scream', swells of symphonic strings, piano keys from the very lowest registers and wispy theremins recall classic Harold Budd, or the surreal melodrama of David Lynch and his accompanying soundtracks from Badalamenti, and selected pieces of Penderecki from his 'Inland Empire' enigma. The Lynch influence is omnipresent in Kirby's work, signifying an intuitive, observant and sensitive sense of humour which perceives human nature and emotion in sharp focus on the drama scores of 'When Did Our Dreams And Futures Drift So Far Apart', or the washed-out grain of 'Not Even Nostalgia Is As Good As It Used To Be'. Once again, with the sublime mastering job from D&M, and originally painted artwork from Ivan Seal, this is simply a package of music that we think you'll cherish for a long time to come, something which can't be said about many things in life. A must.

• Tracks on LEYLAND KIRBY - Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (Limited Vinyl Edition, Part 2 in a series of 3):
• LEYLAND KIRBY : 01
• LEYLAND KIRBY : 02
• LEYLAND KIRBY : 03

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