George Garside - "The Jester" (unreleased cassette) 1985

The original 1985 artwork

Lying casually in a box in Garside sleeve designer Peter Jolly's attic space,was recently found George's abandoned follow up to "Oasis", provisionally entitled "The Jester". Having been asked by George to design a cover for it, he had sent PJ a copy of the work, who then promptly designed the insert above.
Then Garside decided he wasn't happy with the music,and proceeded to dump the project. Leaving this sole copy to gather dust in Peter J's attic.
Peter has kindly digitized it, and reworked/redesigned the artwork, to better represent the theme of the composition.
I'll let Peter explain:

"Inside the folder you'll find the original cover that I made, with a cartoon pinched from Hunt Emerson. All on green card, and a bit boring, but he liked it enough to ask me to design the covers for his subsequent tapes. Bear in mind this was before PCs, so all done on Letraset and photocopier!

When I ripped the tape I thought that I would try to find some titles for the tracks, so I've named them all after famous historical jesters. While I was researching I found a Joker playing card that I though would make a better cover, so I've upgraded.. All ripped in 320, volume corrected and tagged."

The music itself is your usual Garside minimal melodic synthesiser symphonies,with all those georgeous (sic) warm analogue electronics; like a bedroom Edgar Froese.
The best album Integrated Circuit Records NEVER released!

Track Listing:

 Side A:

1 Triboulet
2 Will Somers
3 Touchstone
4 Feste
5 William Kempe

Side B:

1 Puck
2 Thomas Skelton
3 Yorick
4 Herlequin
5 Rigoletto

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George Garside – "Oasis" (Integrated Circuit Records ICR16) 1984

The instructions on how to listen to this cassette use the immortal phrase, “….best listened to on headphones.”Betraying a barely concealed,or controlled ‘prog’ tendency. This is a good thing, because despite all the ‘Punk propaganda’ that has seared itself into the brains of even the most enlightened townies; Prog was the real anti-rock movement of the seventies. It had its rebirth in 1978, and rechristened itself ‘Post-Punk’, and it still perseveres to this day.
This bedroom based one man Tangerine Dream, conjures up an alternative soundtrack to ‘Blade Runner’ for us. If only he had a more exotic name, instead of salt of the earth George Garside from Leeds; if he called himself Dimitrius Dingleberry from the Maldives, for example,he’d have been making horrific albums with Jon Anderson from Yes, instead of these lush analogue soundscapes for Integrated Circuit Records.
all considering, this is a pretty good prog album that would have gone down a storm in 1974. Ten years too late George!

Track Listing:

A1		Journey To Oasis	17:59
A2		Landscapes	13:12
B1		Gates Of Oasis	5:40
B2		Oasis	5:09
B3		The Traveller	4:06
B4		Trapezium	5:57
B5		Riverside Dub	3:22

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George Garside – "New Land" (Self Released Cassette GAR 02) 1986

Flotation tank music verging on the new age. A bit too defined melodically to be called ambient, but very pleasant on the ear. Music for bathing to, or accompanying a testcard.
Check out George’s superior outing for Integrated Circuit records, “Oasis”, earlier in this blog.


Track Listing:

A1		Xingu	5:01
A2		Tides	5:49
A3		Letting Go	5:30
A4		New Land	3:59
A5		Dawn	3:05
A6		Lizard Point	5:04
B1		There And Back	7:40
B2		Tranquil Dominion	6:26
B3		Amnesty	4:21
B4		Red Square	3:19
B5		Duplex	5:51

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George Garside – "Mind Over Matter" (Self Released Cassette GAR 03) 1987

Another one for your Flotation Tank. Let’s all walk towards the light source, dispel your ego, and meet some dead relatives.Discover the inner ‘you’ with George Garside and his dancing synthesizers.
All this and another magisterial sleeve from Peter Jolly.

Track Listing:

		Lemma
A1		Cerebellum Transfer	7:27
A2		The Mind Of Descartes	4:49
A3		Metaphysic 4	5:15
A4		Pulse To Ontology	5:59
A5		I Think, Therefore I Am	6:11
		Acumen
B1		Mind Over Matter	6:26
B2		Echoes In Parallax	3:55
B3		The Levitator	7:25
B4		Nirvana Star	6:02
B5		Zeitgeist	2:38

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