The Caretaker - a stairway to the stars

Taken from the album 'a stairway to the stars" on V/Vm Test Records.

[@Laura-wm8lm]

Makes me think of a lonely astronaut. They were detached from their ship, and are now floating aimlessly through space. They have accepted their fate, and spend their last moments alive looking at the stars all around them. Everything will be okay.

[@concept6437]

its such a beautiful day ;)

[@TheJ00000hn]

I Am So Proud of You

[@Jamieconstable]

aw i like that

[@izabela6581]

Awwww :"(((

[@bugboy69]

aMonG uS

[@thetodol6144]

-The stars looks beautiful tonight -Yes, They look beautiful -If you were here... I'd kiss you -Remember what I said? Even before death, I'll... -You'll love me the same...

[@SolsitaLaVerdadera]

:(

[@duckymdear]

This song feels like dying, in the best way possible. Each organ note is a thread of soul tensing and fluttering as it’s gently plucked away, the body watching through glassy eyes as spirit lifts into the twilight. I don’t believe souls exist, but this is a perfect illustration of the serenity that comes with embracing oblivion. A near-spiritual experience. Beautiful.

[@joshdot9244]

The caretaker is the only artist I listen to that has a strong mythical dream like quality. It’s truly strange that I enjoy the world it portrays, normally myths and fairytales feel so heavy with the past that I find it hard to breathe but this doesn’t.

[@cheems0]

same here

[@drakemayer9197]

I dont know what is it, just the feeling it gives me in my stomach. It gives me feelings that i can’t put into words.

[@SunSign]

This one makes me envision old fair grounds and carnivals.

[@anthonychilders6574]

I remember that day at the park. He picked me up and we went to town, spent all day together. We walked around feeding the ducks and looking at the pond. It was kinda cold so I wore his neon yellow jacket while he was all warm and cozy too. We then stood on that old gazebo and just talked. I loved that day

[@lordroy88]

That sounds like a good memory. I wouldn’t let it go anytime soon.

[@perfectlegacy]

@@lordroy88 Sometimes you don't have that choice. That's kind of the meaning behind this project.

[@Meyohimeyoi]

@@perfectlegacy And people over at The Caretaker managed to capture that feeling.

[@Max-hn5tc]

While listening to this, i imagine sitting on a cliff and just staring at the night sky. Admiring the beauty of myriads of stars. This melody is so lovely and peaceful.

[@ForgottenC2890]

I also imagine myself in a cliff/hill watching the stars through a telescope while listening to this song and the wind

[@ZombieLemonz]

for some reason, listening to this made me remember every moment i've ever stared down a long, dark hall and felt complete emptiness. just pointless staring. almost brain dead how beautiful

[@akaiwtf9959]

Я обычно такие истории в школе слушал

[@neonflavoredlights]

if you’re reading this, i love you. i don’t know you and i probably won’t even come across you again but i wish the best for you. i hope someone reads this comment years from now to remember me, this random person who wished the best for you.

[@jacksbackyardbbq4840]

Assorted nuts

[@neonflavoredlights]

@@jacksbackyardbbq4840 indeed

[@Jhonchina89.]

Thanks man i love you too :)

[@neonflavoredlights]

@@Jhonchina89. :)

[@dpsogmbfl]

😂😂😂

[@BigNerdLandon]

This song is beautiful to listen to in the dark at night in a small clearing. I did so earlier and saw a shooting star. It was quite wonderful

[@greatreaper]

Sounds like the character re-creation screen. Like taking a dead soul and making new life out of it. Almost like in the beginning of Coraline.

[@RiceTea25]

This is such a heavenly, peaceful, song.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

This is what it sounds like to hear the last neurons firing in some brain as die peacefully. Also at 4:20 careless whisper sax riff

[@cheems0]

Nice

[@ortherner]

ok

[@alexandrevachon541]

Wow. Lovely and uplifting.

[@sean1767]

This is the greatest piece of music ever composed. Thank you Leyland Kirby, it genuinely changed my life.

[@fbstudios519]

the aurora the caretakers songs give me is unexplainable, i go back to this song every once a while to remember what that aurora feels like. thank you leyland, for me, and for others.

[@silviabenussi4890]

This sound is not of this world.

[@candyoblivion6228]

coming back to this song --- I still love it. I'm a big astronomy fan now, and I study stars a bit. This song feels like just watching the universe go by and stars slowly fading away, until eventually the last red dwarf has faded away. Trillions of years to explore this vast empty void, and now it's time to rest..

[@tdgtwo850]

I used to love astronomy before back in late 2021. This song is how the milky way sounds like.

[@BroAnarchy]

This channel and your music is criminally underrated

[@youtubeisevil]

Very much, love his art.

[@bapewizard]

@@youtubeisevil this isnt his art. its caretakers

[@youtubeisevil]

@@bapewizard Yes, vvmtest is the caretaker

[@bapewizard]

@@youtubeisevil The real caretaker doesnt have socials. hes like 60.

[@sansung4189]

@@bapewizard ok first off he has a Twitter, reddit, and yt as you can see. Also he’s 40 lmao

[@theoliveoilboy]

the organ makes me feel like im at a haunted baseball game

[@theoliveoilboy]

Huge Fan Btw, have a lot of vinyls you put out. Much Love from the United States.

[@Insomnia19101]

This song feels like what would play In the last hours of a peaceful death

[@justanotherschmuck4149]

This sounds like the beginning to synapse retrogenesis EDIT: this is the beginning to synapse retrogenesis

[@Dementia-Gaming938]

Let me guess, you got this information from Context Switch?

[@sergeantswiss2401]

@@Dementia-Gaming938 he probably got it from the wiki

[@tdgtwo850]

It's being played at 1:24

[@RipXIII]

This soundtrack gives me a happy feeling. As if it’s turning the clock back in time for me, to remember my memories in a clearer manner. The jist is hard to explain. I just feel some type of comfort from this track, and I love it! Thank you, Caretaker. As now you may rest within peace.

[@NecroticNightshade]

I need my brain to stop reading this song's name as "Stairway To The Stairs"

[@donnaquixote7538]

This piece is so beautiful.

[@papajhonsreal]

I like how peaceful this is, compared to EATEOT.

[@errorbirdesther]

EATEOT ?

[@CloverSvcks]

@@errorbirdesther it's an abbreviation for: Everywhere At The End Of Time. which if you somehow don't know, is another album made by the caretaker.

[@titanmegalit8428]

Including this was used in the stage 5 of EATEOT (maybe?)...

[@CloverSvcks]

@@titanmegalit8428 was this used in stage 5?

[@titanmegalit8428]

@@CloverSvcks that's it, maybe got used. I just watched original samples by the Dreamcore, marked as outdated soo yes, it can be false.

[@Gearz.Brainstorm917]

*_This type of music has always seemed so strange to me, it's like it will transport me to another place, far from the mundane and everyday life. Sometimes I wonder if all this life and death stuff makes any sense. Living is so complicated, the mind never stops moving from one place to another, it is a perpetual and suffocating chaos. Existence is so frustrating and frivolous at times, how I would like to travel to other worlds, to other possibilities that are beyond my mundane and finite existence, a consciousness that seeks to overcome itself and transcend to the realm of spirits._*

[@NatureLover-zr9iz]

I absolutely love the aura and vibe of this song ;D

[@lordroy88]

God bless you.

[@pogodancer6875]

Its Medication time...

[@madshark0]

It does sound quite similar to that scene from that film, doesn’t it?

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Third best song on kirby's best album. What an epik mash-up and a truly a great way to end an album.

[@doublebunny6257]

Bruh, I thought the same thing lol. Definably has some Kirby sounding ambiances and dream like qualities to it. I loveeeee it!!

[@doublebunny6257]

"Aurora Area Kirby s Return to Dream Land song" is like when you are resurrected from death and you are actively doing the tap dance in comparison to stairway to the stars signifying total death.

[@arandomsupra]

@@doublebunny6257 Kirby is referring to Leyland Kirby, also known as The Caretaker. This song was created by him

[@CrossbredManiac]

This feels like the last few seconds before drowning. The muffled calm finding you and becoming clearer as your consciousness is plucked from your body. It would be interesting to find a song that feels like the shock, sorrow, uncertainty, and confusion that comes with being revived... A compliment to this work.

[@plushiestory]

That song would be Back there Benjamin

[@koalaplays8855]

Drowning is actually a very painful death

[@velvet2213]

so beautiful.

[@Fellhat]

Thank you, Leyland Kirby. This song truly brings a tear to my eye. If I were to be able to select a song to play as I leave this world and pass on, I would choose this one. It is deeply peaceful, so much so that it has the aura of a piece produced by an entity not of the human race. Something not truly of this world. Your work is incredible.

[@Molten546]

the opening to this is very audible in synapse retrogenesis

[@foxdiemmxx]

I just had a special moment where I was listening to a vinyl album by Zamfir called “Tranquility” and the first song is this exact song but with with a pan flute. It’s called ‘Meditation From Thais’. I froze when I recognized the tune and made me appreciate this specific album so much more than I already do.

[@devlinorsomething854]

this makes me think about my life, like in a cinematic way. small snippets of the best moments all while this song is in the background. i am happy.

[@cheems0]

who dares to dislike this masterpiece

[@cheems0]

oh the dislikes disappeared 😔

[@IIRemy]

if you sit still and stare at the image, it starts to move..

[@alvatheiii4185]

This sounds like a track from portal 2 that was supposed to be an alternate ending to chell falling into space

[@g-ray4088]

this is literally the start of M1

[@unknownartist113]

I want this to be played as I die

[@largeeugene3373]

Sounds like an alternate last song in Mother 3.

[@PrincePoo]

hello fellow mother fan

[@slimeslaggagedon794]

@@PrincePoo hello fellow mother fans

[@normanclatcher]

* It feels like you crept downstairs for a midnight snack and got a sneak peek at what the neighbors were doing. * One of them is watching an old black-and-white movie.

[@MarcosLobatosdelafuente]

This song just makes me think that i am slowly dying and i am seeing my past memories while i am looking down at the mountain while i die... slowly.

[@bensfractals43]

Used in Synapse Retrogenisis

[@cheems0]

also this gives me instant chills

[@semtux8615]

so awesome

[@dweezildee]

I’d really, really, really like for this to play at my funeral. Even if that’s decades away. I want this to play at the very end of the service. Especially if I end up attending my own funeral as a ghost.

[@rickdeckard1075]

Meditation at the skating rink lol

[@candyoblivion6228]

I listen to this when I happen to feel guilty and down, it just takes me to a void, in space, far from these problems and issues.

[@cheems0]

YOU'RE THE REAL CARETAKER OMGGGGGG

[@memekinganimations6048]

This is the caretaker? The original

[@Ghaztling.]

Yep​@@memekinganimations6048

[@user-idjw8qpd2je]

Estou no espaço, vagando e pensando, cada detalhe importa já que não me resta mais além de recordações. Lembranças no futuro é inevitável, sempre esteja preparado para isso.

[@Delta-07999]

This song felt like the last day of 2022, the last of the great days

[@FeRcHoM130]

2019*

[@plushiestory]

​@@FeRcHoM1302016*

[@data.overload]

Is it normal crying when this song starts playing?

[@data.overload]

i noticed that when i wrote this i was in a bad emotional state

[@ForgottenC2890]

Nah it’s okay, it feels melancholic and beautiful

[@JackOpulski]

Meditation, from Jules Massenet's opera "Thais"

[@juliocruz8193]

M1SA❤❤❤❤❤ and O1SC❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@plushiestory]

I1SA❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@allahmayhem9682]

Yes

[@theoliveoilboy]

i swear i hear this song when i first wake up

[@adamc.sieracki4145]

Remembering going up to somewhere not far, and not too long ago...

[@xr_asura]

GOD TIER TRACK!!!!!!!

[@stasiuwosilius5480]

2:00

[@insomniacaughtme4057]

haven't i seen you somewhere before ?

[@Max-hn5tc]

@@insomniacaughtme4057 in the ballroom ! He's always there! :)

[@madshark0]

You seem so familiar...

[@daxyboyfuck]

i like

[@Dementia-Gaming938]

OG comment

[@The_Fancy_Duck]

Sounds like a more lucid version of store and elevator music.

[@paecar21]

I like the title.

[@luisvelarde930]

no lo entiendo, osea has estado en esto por más de 15 años? No lo puedo creer en absoluto man, es increíble y fascinante, y demasiado raro. Osea sigues en la música undergroud yet estás en esta red social pasando piola... es muy extraño amigo. Me da cosa.

[@Lecotatuta]

ganger

[@levraidunoob]

For people who want the original piece it's meditation from thais

[@AVC9]

We aint here we are there

[@chloewalker214]

This sounds a lot like a song that would be in OMORI

[@tdgtwo850]

Imagine if The Caretaker worked with the OMORI soundtrack producers

[@tungsten9727]

so this is what was used in m1. thats calm

[@dementedgamer0810]

1:23 is the part for the beginning (It's also a Stage 3 alt of this song. It means it's a rendition of this song that sounds like a track from Stage 3 EATEOT.)

[@Wowyourhere.]

something had to click in my brain to remember this song

[@ForgottenC2890]

The og song is called meditation from thais

[@theoliveoilboy]

M1

[@vibrantgleam]

the caretaker is basically a vaporwave artist expect he samples old songs during the earlier 20th century.

[@dweezildee]

There’s a name for that - “hauntology”

[@gustavo_paganelli]

It sounds like a distorted religious song which I don't know the name of

[@tdgtwo850]

Meditation from "Thais" by Jesse Crawford

[@blueshiftuk]

Please anyone what is this sampled from?

[@blueshiftuk]

discovered it to be thais' mediation

[@Frip36]

+James King "the entire LP is built from old 78s and 1920s dance records narcotized and bathed in hiss and gloom until they feel like a scene from The Shining (the one where Jack meets bartender Lloyd). It also carries a Weimar melancholia - a record of haunted, European ballrooms."

[@blueshiftuk]

Captain Sunday yeah I know. I want specific samples

[@Frip36]

+James King Mice want wings. Just accept the mystery of it. What, are you doing a homework assignment on it?

[@MichaelDembinski]

Many thanks. There I was looking through Debussy's better-known works.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

is this a mash-up?

[@assgoblin9937]

No, this is the last song from A Stairway to the Stars

[@jalapenoandbanana]

where?

[@noose-db8li]

Yeah

[@jacksbackyardbbq4840]

Ham

[@arandomsupra]

The stars

[@jessewright3790]

This is Meditation by Jules Massenet

[@JackOpulski]

Oh... of course... The Medication of Thaïs, hehehe

[@maxspencer6763]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@thunor3656]

In the woods at midnight drunk and this album yeah. Join me?

[@tails183]

Nah.

[@thunor3656]

@@tails183 Fair enough 🙃 I'll go on my own then 🤗

[@insertnamehere7090]

I swear I've heard this song before

[@dishwater._]

i could lowkey just disinagrate to this, or like go through the water cycle, anyone know what i mean?

[@seanwilliamd1268]

lmao i thought the title says the starway to stairs

[@user-lt4mi5ef9l]

Why does this sound like mincraft music

[@csypeszlol]

i am looking for others attention.

[@EmilianoBENJAX]

It's like deep sleep from poppy playtime

[@plushiestory]

Oh no the gen alpha kids are gonna ruin this

[@EmilianoBENJAX]

@@plushiestory im not a kid

[@plushiestory]

@@EmilianoBENJAX your videos say otherwise but ok

[@EmilianoBENJAX]

@@plushiestory I just said that it sounds somewhat similar to that song from Poppy Playtime, don't be mad and you liked your own comment XD

[@plushiestory]

@@EmilianoBENJAX i mean, theres nothing wrong with liking ur own comment lmao