{"id":18087,"date":"2022-07-31T11:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T10:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&p=18087"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:52:11","slug":"mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-lp-dracula-celosia-red-grey-splatter","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-lp-dracula-celosia-red-grey-splatter\/","title":{"rendered":"Mort Garson – Mother Earth’s Plantasia – LP (Green)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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), you also took home \u201cPlantasia<\/strong>\u201d, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled \u201cwarm earth music for plants\u2026and the people that love them,\u201d 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<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Few characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson<\/strong> embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: \u201cHow was Garson<\/strong>\u2019s music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?\u201d 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<\/strong> wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell\u2019s \u201cBy the Time I Get to Phoenix.\u201d He could render the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel alike into easy listening and also dreamed up his own ditties. \u201cAn idear<\/em>\u201d as Garson<\/strong> himself would drawl it out. \u201cI live with it, I walk it, I sing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as his daughter Day Darmet recalls: \u201cWhen my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn\u2019t want to do pop music anymore.\u201d Garson<\/strong> encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society\u2019s West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. With the Moog, those ideas <\/em>could be transformed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom had a lot of plants,\u201d Darmet says. \u201cShe didn\u2019t believe in organized religion, she believed the earth was the best thing in the whole world. Whatever created us was incredible.\u201d And she also knew when her husband had a good song, shouting from another room when she heard him humming a good idea<\/em>. Novel as it might seem, \u201cPlantasia<\/strong>\u201d \u00a0is simply full of good tunes.<\/p>\n

Hearing \u201cPlantasia<\/strong>\u201d in the 21st<\/sup> century, now reissued by Sacred Bones Records<\/strong>, it seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by Garson<\/strong> and more an homage to his wife, the one with the green thumb that made everything flower around him. \u201cMy dad would be totally<\/em> pleased to know that people are really interested in this music that had no popularity at the time,\u201d Darmet says of \u201cPlantasia<\/strong>\u201d‘s<\/em> new renaissance. \u201cHe 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.\u201d Garson<\/strong> seems to be everywhere again, even if he\u2019s not really noticed, just like a houseplant.<\/p>\n

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Hearing \u201cPlantasia<\/strong>\u201d in the 21st<\/sup> century, now reissued by Sacred Bones Records<\/strong>, it seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by Garson<\/strong> and more an homage to his wife, the one with the green thumb that made everything flower around him. \u201cMy dad would be totally<\/em> pleased to know that people are really interested in this music that had no popularity at the time,\u201d Darmet says of \u201cPlantasia<\/strong>\u201d‘s<\/em> new renaissance. \u201cHe 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.\u201d Garson<\/strong> seems to be everywhere again, even if he\u2019s not really noticed, just like a houseplant.<\/p>\n

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