Martin Garside, aka Garsa, is sporadically releasing some very interesting and well seasoned songs. By day bass player with Celestial North and one time bass player with The Maitland, by night he’s carving himself a new career as a folk-psych protest singer for 2020+.
Blending a folk-tronic style with washed out shoegaze vocals, clipped drums beats closer to dance, some Morricone style guitar interludes; this song manages to be all over the place, but focused in intent. The result is like he’s taken a rainbow and turned the contrast down to make the elements blend together. He even adds vocals from his son Lachlan to the mix, without over-egging the pudding. Nope, wrong course at the dinner table, this is more like fusion food.
Note how the acoustic guitar starts like ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ (no, really) then the drum beats are like hand claps, with a buzzing drone in the background, then the spaghetti western guitar, then the breathless, maybe Inspiral Carpets-ish chorus, then back to the acoustic guitar, this song never settles down, this is a song that won’t sit still in it’s chair…
The song itself is an environmental parable, rather Peggy Suicide-ish with the voice of the next generation ending the song.
We suffer do you suffer more
The next generations will pay for these wars
Cold murder corruption and pain
Hatred and hunger are all day to day scenes
As divided as the world itself, but prettier.
You don’t know whether to dance or cry.
‘Ghosts’ is available for £1 at:
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