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Mother Earth's Plantasia LP Mort Garson (Artist) Format: Vinyl
Product Details
Product Dimensions : 12.44 x 12.36 x 0.12 inches; 10.51 Ounces
Manufacturer : Sacred Bones
Original Release Date : 2019
Date First Available : April 13, 2019
Label : Sacred Bones
Country of Origin : USA
Number of discs : 1
If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you
from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons
mattress from Sears) in 1976, you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded
especially for plants. Subtitled "warm earth music for plants... and the
people that love them," it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly,
decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the
Moog. Before Brian Eno did it, Mort Garson was making discreet music.
Julliard-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, Garson
wrote lounge hits, scored the 1969 moon-landing and plush arrangements for
Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell's
"By the Time I Get to Phoenix." But as his daughter Day Darmet recalls: "When
my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn't want to do pop music
anymore." Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio
Engineering Society's West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began
tinkering with the device. "My mom had a lot of plants," Darmet says. "She
didn't believe in organized religion, she believed the earth was the best
thing in the whole world. Whatever created us was incredible." And she also
knew when her husband had a good song. Novel as it might seem, Plantasia is
simply full of good tunes. This release marks the first official re-issue of
the long sought-a er cult classic. Hearing Plantasia in the 21st century, it
seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by Garson and more an
homage to his wife, the one with the green thumb that made everything flower
around him."My dad would be totally pleased to know that people are really
interested in this music that had no popularity at the time," Darmet says of
Plantasia's new renaissance. "He would be fascinated by the fact that people
are finally understanding and appreciating this part of his musical career
that he got no admiration for back then." Garson seems to be everywhere again,
even if he's not really noticed, just like a houseplant.
ASIN : B07PWJXXJ4
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