05 December 2025

Kirby Sounds

 

I've shared The Caretaker & his various projects here in the past, several under his birth name Leyland James Kirby. This is just to show that Ambient can be dark, creating a shadowy claustrophobic sonic environment, an eerily haunting mood. Here's a trilogy from LJK (not to be confused with LKJ)...

 

Leyland Kirby - When We Parted My Heart Wanted to Die 2xLP,
History Always Favours the Winners HAFTW001LP, 2009.
all decryption codes in comments

Side A -
When We Parted, My Heart Wanted to Die (Friedrichshain Memory)
Side B -
The Sound of Music Vanishing
The Beauty of the Impending Tragedy of My Existence
Side C -
And as I Sat Beside You I Felt the Great Sadness That Day
Tonight is the Last Night of the World
Side D -
To the Place Between the Twilight & the Dawn
 
 
 
 
Leyland Kirby - Sadly, the Future is No Longer What it Was 2xLP,
History Always Favours the Winners HAFTW006COL 2009.

Side A -        
When Did Our Dreams & Futures Drift so Far Apart ?    
Not Even Nostalgia is as Good as it Used to Be
Side B -
Sadly, the Future is No Longer What it Was
Side C -
Stay Light, There is a Rainbow a Coming    
And Nothing Comes Between the Sadness & the Scream    
Side D -
I’ve Hummed This Tune to All The Girls I’ve Known
Not as She is Now But as She Appears in My Dreams
 
 
 
 
 
Leyland Kirby - Memories Live Longer than Dreams 2xLP,
History Always Favours the Winner HAFTW007LP, 2009.

Side A -
Memories Live Longer than Dreams
Don’t Sleep, I am Not What I Seem, I’m a Very Quiet Storm    
Side B -
A Longing to be Absorbed for a While into a Different & Beautiful World
Days in the Wilderness    
Side C-
Stralauer Peninsula    
Side D -
We All Won that Day, Sunshine    
And at Dawn Armed with Glowing Patience, We Will Enter the Cities of Glory (stripped)
 
 
 

At one with my surroundings,
NØ
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9 comments:

  1. NØ12/5/25, 12:05 AM

    When We Parted
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    Sadly, the Future
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    Memories Live Longer
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  2. Richie Muster12/5/25, 1:27 AM

    Leyland Kirby has been a firm favourite here at Leafy Glades ever since his earlier career as a noise merchant under the Vvm rubrik. I absolutely loved his massive 'Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia' set and there'll always be a place for his haunted, haunting melodies in my heart. Somehow, i didn't have 'When We Parted...' or 'Memories Live Longer...' so it'll be a treat to listen to these. Gracias, amigo.

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    1. NØ12/5/25, 12:22 PM

      The perfect book-ends to Sadly. Should make for some sweetly haunted listening. Glad I could provide these. A Decambier X-ambias gift to you.

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  3. Mooz12/5/25, 9:25 AM

    A most excellent post! Thank you for highlighting his works under his name. I've been a rabid fan since his days posting as the noisy prankster V/VM. I remember his 365 project on Brainwashed.com where he composed and posted a track every day for a full year, most were quite good and well developed.

    If anyone is interested in more of his works, this link still has dozens of active links, despite the last update from the author in 2016.

    https://musicisdyingnow.blogspot.com/2012/08/james-leyland-kirby.html

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    1. NØ12/5/25, 12:19 PM

      Thanks for the kind words, but mainly for the link. I'll be checking it out as soon as I finish here. Happy holly daze, my friend.

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    2. Richie Muster12/6/25, 2:00 AM

      What a great link! I found a lot of Leyland Kirby i didn't have, plus quite a few other intriguing releases. Thanks very much, Mooz.

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    3. Mooz12/6/25, 9:33 AM

      You're welcome. That's one site I keep going back to as I get introduced to new dark ambient artists. I'm impressed that most of the links are still active, plus great write ups on each post. Glad you are enjoying it too.

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  4. Anonymous12/5/25, 9:39 AM

    Thanks NØ. My father-in-law is visiting tomorrow. He has dementia and I was wondering what I could play in the background! These are perfect (along with the new Gazelle Twin OST). Conversations with those who suffer from this terrible disease are usually repetitive and dreary. You've given me the antidote!
    MarkyD

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    1. NØ12/5/25, 12:17 PM

      Hey, MarkyD. Glad I could provide a bit of atmospheric sound for your time with your father-in-law. Ambient is perfect for those with attention issues as it is fantastic background soundtrack to life. Take care & best of luck with your visit. You're doing a good thing, my friend.

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