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Cat: SBR 3030LPC1. Rel: 24 Jun 19
Experimental/Electronic

Side 1 - Track 1. Plantasia Side 1 - Track 2. Symphony For A Spider Plant Side 1 - Track 3. Baby's Tears Blues Side 1 - Track 4. Ode To An African Violet Side 1 - Track 5. Concerto For Philodendron & Pothos Side 2 - Track 1. Rhapsody In Green Side 2 - Track 2. Swingin' Spathiphyllums Side 2 - Track 3. You Don't Have To Walk A Begonia Side 2 - Track 4. A Mellow Mood For Maidenhair Side 2 - Track 5. Music To Soothe The Savage Snake Plant

Canadian composer Mort Garson enjoyed an eclectic career, though in electronic music circles he's most celebrated for a string of experimental electronic albums he produced using early Moog synthesizers. "Mother Earth's Plantasia" is a bizarre but brilliant beast: a 1976 set that was designed to be played to plants to help them grow (really) and was given away free at a Los Angeles garden store. As this first ever reissue proves it remains a dizzyingly far-sighted set. Sometimes symphonic, occasionally spacey and always intoxicating, much of the material is far quirkier than contemporaneous synthesizer-fired sets. Highlights include the pulsing ambient spaciousness of "Ode To An African Violet", the twinkling, cascading beauty of "Rhapsody In Green" and the jaunty cheeriness of "You Don't Have To Walk a Begonia".