Mother Earth’s Plantasia (50th Anniversary Edition Spruce Coloured Vinyl Dinked Edition #INT.05) Mort Garson
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Description
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. Now, 50 years after its original release, Mother Earth's Plantasia marks a major anniversary
moment. Half a century on, it continues to resonate - an enduring reminder of Mort Garson's ability to make the synthetic feel strangely alive and
the whimsical feel oddly profound.
In the mid-1970s, a force of nature swept across the continental United States, cutting across all strata of race and class, rooting in our minds, our
homes, our culture. It wasn’t The Exorcist, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, or even bell-bottoms, but instead a book called The Secret Life of Plants.
The work of occultist/former OSS agent Peter Tompkins and former CIA agent/dowsing enthusiast Christopher Bird, the book shot up the
bestseller charts and spread like kudzu across the landscape, becoming a phenomenon.
Seemingly overnight, the indoor plant business was in full bloom and photosynthetic eukaryotes of every genus were hanging off walls, lording
over bookshelves, and basking on sunny window ledges. The science behind Secret Life was specious: plants can hear our prayers, they’re lie
detectors, they’re telepathic, able to predict natural disasters and receive signals from distant galaxies. But that didn’t stop millions from buying
and nurturing their new plants.
Perhaps the craziest claim of the book was that plants also dug music. And whether 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 Plantasia,
an album recorded especially for them. 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.
The album gained an enormous cult following decades after its release. Sacred Bones' 2019 reissue helped introduce Plantasia to a wider global
audience, sparking a remarkable second life for Garson's unlikely masterpiece. What was once a strange artifact of 1970s plant-mania has
become a beloved evergreen, rediscovered and re-embraced by a new generation of listeners and
● Spruce coloured vinyl *
● 4.5" x 7" Plant Journal *
● 11” x 11” liner notes
● Limited pressing of 1500* (700 UK)
*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
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