{"product_id":"mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-lp-sb-15-year-edition-caladium-pink-green-vinyl","title":"MORT GARSON 'MOTHER EARTH'S PLANTASIA' LP (SB 15 Year Edition, Caladium Pink \u0026 Green Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLABEL: Sacred Bones Records\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: 8\/19\/2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1976\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVARIANT: SB 15 Year Edition, Caladium Pink \u0026amp; Green Vinyl LP\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\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) in 1976, you also took home \u003ci\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/i\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.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eBefore \u003cb\u003eBrian Eno \u003c\/b\u003edid it, \u003cb\u003eMort Garson \u003c\/b\u003ewas making discreet music. Julliard-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, \u003cb\u003eGarson \u003c\/b\u003ewrote lounge hits, scored the 1969 moon-landing and plush arrangements for \u003cb\u003eDoris Day\u003c\/b\u003e, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around \u003cb\u003eGlen Campbell\u003c\/b\u003e’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.”\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eBut as his daughter Day Darmet recalls: “When my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn’t want to do pop music anymore.” \u003cb\u003eGarson \u003c\/b\u003eencountered \u003cb\u003eRobert Moog \u003c\/b\u003eand his new device at the Audio Engineering Society’s West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\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. Novel as it might seem, \u003ci\u003ePlantasia \u003c\/i\u003eis simply full of good tunes.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eThis release marks the first official re-issue of the long sought-after cult classic.Hearing \u003ci\u003ePlantasia \u003c\/i\u003ein the 21st century, it seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by \u003cb\u003eGarson \u003c\/b\u003eand 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 \u003ci\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/i\u003e’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.” \u003cb\u003eGarson \u003c\/b\u003eseems to be everywhere again, even if he’s not really noticed, just like a houseplant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY DISTRO","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67647535874349,"sku":"MORT-GARSON-MOTHER-EARTHS-PLANTASIA-LP-0382","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/2910\/4685\/files\/418466862860.jpg?v=1792014062","url":"https:\/\/shop.altpress.com\/products\/mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-lp-sb-15-year-edition-caladium-pink-green-vinyl","provider":"Alternative Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}