Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia Vinyl LP 2020

1. PLANTASIA
2. SYMPHONY FOR A SPIDER PLANT
3. BABY'S TEARS BLUES
4. ODE TO AN AFRICAN VIOLET
5. CONCERTO FOR PHILODENDRON AND POTHOS
6. RHAPSODY IN GREEN
7. SWINGIN' SPATHIPHYLLUMS
8. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK A BEGONIA
9. A MELLOW MOOD FOR MAIDENHAIR
10. MUSIC TO SOOTHE THE SAVAGE SNAKE PLANT

Deluxe, double LP, 45 rpm audiophile edition of the legendary 1976 album Limited to 4000 copies Includes full reproduction of original booklet plus liner notes by Andy Beta (Pitchfork) 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.

Novel as it might seem, Plantasia is simply full of good tunes. This release marks the first official re-issue of the long sought-after 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.