This CD features Michael Garrick's 1971 Argo album Mr Smith's Apocalypse. Recorded under the name of Garrick's Fairground (conducted by Peter Mound), it is a jazz cantata with music by Garrick and words by poet and Garrick collaborator John Smith. Alongside the pianist, this compelling work features the Somerford Junior School Choir conducted by Mary Tickner, and the instrumental prowess of Don Rendell and Art Themen (saxes, reeds), Norma Winstone (voice), Coleridge Goode (double bass) and Henry Lowther (trumpet, flugelhorn). Also included is Garrick Fairground's rare, two-track 1971 Epiphany Argo EP, featuring the same line-up as Mr Smith's Apocalypse, except that Dave Green (double bass) replaces Coleridge Goode.

Contents:
1. Epiphany (Garrick; Green)

Mr Smith's Apocalypse (Garrick; Smith)
2. Blues
3. Invocation
4. In the Silence of God
5. Who Can Endure?
6. Speak, God!
7. For we are Lost
8. I Have Torn Up
9. You are Fools
10. Some Men Live On the Mountain
11. I Saw the Face
12. How May We Understand?
13. Organ Improvisation
14. Blues
15. Invocation
16. Who Will Plead for Us?
17. I Took Myself off to the Doctor
18. What is this Clamour?
19. Who Hath Made Man's Heart?
20. Childrens' Chorus
21. I Will Speak, I Will Say
22. Heart, Like a Dove, Be Still
23. The Waters of Love
24. To the Celebration

25. Blessed are the Peacemakers (Garrick)