{"product_id":"mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia","title":"MORT GARSON - Mother Earth's Plantasia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003e1LP - Limited Edition Green Vinyl, Includes The Original Mother Earth's Indoor Plant Care Booklet \u0026amp; Digital Download On Real Seed-paper Card. Plant It And Watch It Sprout!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"349\"\u003eBefore \u003cstrong data-start=\"7\" data-end=\"20\"\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/strong\u003e did it, \u003cstrong data-start=\"29\" data-end=\"44\"\u003eMort Garson\u003c\/strong\u003e was making discreet music. \u003cstrong data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"84\"\u003eJulliard\u003c\/strong\u003e-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, Garson wrote lounge hits, scored the 1969 moon landing with plush arrangements for \u003cstrong data-start=\"229\" data-end=\"242\"\u003eDoris Day\u003c\/strong\u003e, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around \u003cstrong data-start=\"296\" data-end=\"313\"\u003eGlen Campbell\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cem data-start=\"316\" data-end=\"347\"\u003eBy the Time I Get to Phoenix.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"351\" data-end=\"1088\"\u003eIn the mid-1970s, a force of nature swept across the continental United States, cutting across all strata of race and class, rooting itself in our minds, our homes, and our culture. It wasn’t \u003cem data-start=\"543\" data-end=\"557\"\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"559\" data-end=\"586\"\u003eGoodbye Yellow Brick Road\u003c\/em\u003e, or even bell-bottoms, but instead a book called \u003cem data-start=\"636\" data-end=\"663\"\u003eThe Secret Life of Plants\u003c\/em\u003e. Written by occultist\/former OSS agent \u003cstrong data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"721\"\u003ePeter Tompkins\u003c\/strong\u003e and former CIA agent\/dowsing enthusiast \u003cstrong data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"782\"\u003eChristopher Bird\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1090\" data-end=\"1687\"\u003eThe science behind \u003cem data-start=\"1109\" data-end=\"1122\"\u003eSecret Life\u003c\/em\u003e was specious: plants could hear our prayers, act as lie detectors, communicate telepathically, predict natural disasters, and even receive signals from distant galaxies. But that didn’t stop millions from buying and nurturing their new plants. Perhaps the wildest claim of the book was that plants also dug music. And whether you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or whatever from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home \u003cem data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1646\"\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/em\u003e—an album recorded especially for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"2126\"\u003eSubtitled \u003cem data-start=\"1699\" data-end=\"1762\"\u003e“Warm Earth Music for Plants… and the People That Love Them,”\u003c\/em\u003e it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1888\" data-end=\"1896\"\u003eMoog\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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 \u003cstrong data-start=\"2108\" data-end=\"2123\"\u003eMort Garson\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2128\" data-end=\"2322\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eFew characters in early electronic music could be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes—perhaps explaining why he has been so unheralded as a result.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Green Vinyl","offer_id":57794473918809,"sku":"SDZ-24595","price":28.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/817d35cd3b00924b732930e55a47ff71.jpg?v=1776078946","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}