{"product_id":"mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-limited-edition-green-lp","title":"Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia [Limited Edition Green LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf 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), you also took home\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. Plants date back to the dawn of time, but apparently, they loved the Moog, never mind that the synthesizer had been on the market for just a few years. Most of all, the plants loved the ditties made by composer Mort Garson.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eFew characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: “How was Garson’s music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?” the answer was simple. Well before Brian Eno did it, Garson was making discreet music, both the man and his music as inconspicuous as a Chlorophytum comosum. Julliard-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, Garson wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” He could render the Beatles and Simon \u0026amp; Garfunkel alike into easy listening and also dreamed up his own ditties. “An ide\u003cem\u003ear\u003c\/em\u003e” as Garson himself would drawl it out. “I live with it, I walk it, I sing it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBut 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. With the Moog, those\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eidears\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecould be transformed. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e“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, shouting from another room when she heard him humming a good\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eidear\u003c\/em\u003e. Novel as it might seem,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis simply full of good tunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHearing\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecentury, 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003etotally\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epleased to know that people are really interested in this music that had no popularity at the time,” Darmet says of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlantasia's\u003c\/em\u003enew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e**Comes with fully restored original booklet with new liner notes by Andy Beta (Pitchfork). All vinyl copies come with seed paper download card – plant it and watch it sprout!**\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSymphony for a Spider Plant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBaby's Tears Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOde to an African Violet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcerto for Philodendron \u0026amp;amp; Pothos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRhapsody in Green\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSwingin' Spathiphyllums\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Don't Have to Walk a Begonia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Mellow Mood for Maidenhair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 843563116043\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacred Bones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.21.19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Revival Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53234630197408,"sku":"843563116043","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/5899\/5360\/files\/3917400.jpg?v=1770366597","url":"https:\/\/vinylrevivalrecordstore.com\/products\/mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-limited-edition-green-lp","provider":"Vinyl Revival Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}