The Caretaker: “Friends Past, Reunited” (A Stairway to the Stars, V/VM 2001)

Leland Kirby’s alter ego The Caretaker emerged out of experiments that tipped the balance away from noise and toward repurposed old ballroom recordings, sounding more like the haunted Overlook Hotel in Kubrick’s vision of The Shining than the unpredictable chaos of his main project at the time, V/VM.