Vvmtest

Leyland James Kirby (born ), known on Youtube as vvmtest, is an English experimental musician best known for his musical project dubbed The Caretaker, which itself is best known for the 6 part album series "Everywhere at the End of Time", which is a representation of dementia. His music is usually sampled from 1920s-30s ballroom music, which is usually then formed into a new song, sometimes distorted into noise. Other well known works of his include a previous album which was also about dementia named "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World", among others.
==Discography==
Releases under "The Caretaker"
Album 	Release
Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom	1999
A Stairway to the Stars 	2001
We'll All Go Riding on a Rainbow 	2003
Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia 	2005
Additional Amnesiac Memories 	2006
Deleted Scenes / Forgotten Dreams 	2007
Persistent Repetition of Phrases 	2008
An Empty Bliss Beyond this World 	2011
Patience (After Sebald) 	2012
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 1) 	2016
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 2) 	2017
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 3) 	2017
Take Care. It's a Desert Out There... 	2017
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 4) 	2018
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 5) 	2018
Everywhere at the End of Time (Stage 6) 	2019
Everywhere, An Empty Bliss 	2019
==Trivia==
*The Caretaker canonically passed away after Stage 6 of Everywhere at the End of Time. This is because it's The Caretaker as a character who is given dementia in the series.
**"Everywhere, An Empty Bliss is" technically released by Kirby, as The Caretaker as a character has died.
*The Caretaker started out as a fan project for the movie "The Shining", in order to recreate music from scenes in the movie (hence the name of the first album).
**The Caretaker didn't start to focus on mental health until the album "Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia", which is supposed to represent distorted and barely remembered memories of a person suffering from said condition.
***The first Caretaker album that acknowledges dementia/Alzheimer's is "Persistent repetition of phrases".
*The Caretaker is not the only alias of Leyland, as he has made many other music under various aliases, which includes V/Vm (also the name of his record label, and the origin of his Youtube channel's name), The Notorious P.I.G, among others.
*His album covers were made by himself in his earlier days, but the covers of his most popular albums are paintings by Ivan Seal, a close friend of Leyland.
*V/Vm was ran by both Kirby and another musician Andy MacGregor. 
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