The Caretaker - A Stairway To The Stars FLAC

Caretaker Vm Test Records Experimental Ambient 2002

Genre:	Electronic
Performer:	The Caretaker
Title:	A Stairway To The Stars
Style:	Experimental, Ambient
Date of release:	May 2002
Label:	V/Vm Test Records
Catalog Number:	OFFALP07
Country:	UK
FLAC album size:	2897 mb
MP3 album size:	1308 mb

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Tracklist

1	We Cannot Escape The Past	2:03
2	A Stairway To The Stars	7:13
3	Home	2:06
4	Masquerade Ball	4:02
5	It's All Forgotten Now	3:03
6	Emptiness	3:49
7	Consigned To A Yesterday	5:13
8	Each Today Doesn't Lead To A Tomorrow	1:50
9	Robins And Roses	3:02
10	On The Edge Of Breakdown	2:06
11	Cloudy, Since You Went Away	4:12
12	Friends Past Re-United	4:47
13	Date With An Angel	3:10
14	Malign Forces Of The Occult	3:20

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
OFFAL07	The Caretaker	A Stairway To The Stars ‎(CD, Album)	V/Vm Test Records	OFFAL07	UK	2002
none	The Caretaker	A Stairway To The Stars ‎(14xFile, MP3, 320)	V/Vm Test Records, History Always Favours The Winners	none	UK	2011
none	The Caretaker	A Stairway To The Stars ‎(14xFile, FLAC)	V/Vm Test Records, History Always Favours The Winners	none	UK	2011

Credits

Cover [Cover Images] – Andrew Cliff
Recorded By, Producer [Reproduced By] – The Caretaker

Notes

All tracks recorded and reproduced for V/VM Test Records.
Made in Northern England

"A Stairway To The Stars" is derived from reprocessed 1930s ballroom music and memories collated by "The Caretaker" from the haunted ballroom.

Issued in a resealable plastic sleeve.

Barcodes

Matrix / Runout (Side A, stamped): AE 32831/A
Matrix / Runout (Side B, stamped): AE 32832/A
Matrix / Runout (Side C, stamped): AE 32833/A
Matrix / Runout (Side D, stamped): AE 32834/A

Companies

Pressed By – GZ Digital Media – AE 32831
Pressed By – GZ Digital Media – AE 32832
Pressed By – GZ Digital Media – AE 32833
Pressed By – GZ Digital Media – AE 32834

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Valawye

An outstanding album. You really do get a feel for a modern ambient interpretation on 1920-30s ballroom and seaside fanfare music. The last track almost has an additional flavour of John Barry's Raise the Titanic Soundtrack. Also the first track, We Cannot Escape the Past, is the very first track used for Room 237. In regards to those critiquing the covers look and feel. This is an edgy album with an edgy feel to it. If anything, the album cover plays to that spectrum...

Vudojar

I agree with BABYDIDDY's review. This is endlessly layered, arcane and mysterious music. But the imagery associated with V/Vm and the Caretaker is obnoxious and horridly disconnected from *most* of the music. A shame ... and I wonder why they choose to present themselves in this way. I feel that they would have more people purchasing their records if folks weren't repelled by this initial encounter. With such an abundance of music available these days, it's easy to write-off a label if one doesn't find it attractive ... and can just move on to the next.

Skiletus

absolutely beautiful and amazingly eerie ambient ballroom soundscapes make this THE definitive ambient album I have ever heard. Strikingly original and captivating from start to finish. Not what you'd expect from the V/VM camp at all and this should be a part of any decerning electronica fan's collection. 100%

Vit

Just as V/VM seem to have got to a point where only they haven't started to think putting Russ Abbot through the blender is funny and makes great music, they come out with this! This ranks with the KLF's "Space" LP as one of the best ambient records of all time, using as source material an old box of ballroom dance records they somehow obtained from somewhere.

Its a shame that such a great work has been sadly neglected due to a couple of pig masks and some charity shop vinyl.