{"product_id":"garson-mort-mother-earth-s-plantasia-50th-anniversary-edition","title":"Garson, Mort - Mother Earth’s Plantasia (50th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynthesizer odes to Philodendrons, Pothos, Spathiphyllums, Begonias and the Spider Plant! Mort Garson’s truly evergreen ‘\u003cem\u003eMother Earth’s Plantasia\u003c\/em\u003e’ celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with a custom and very handsome Dinked International Edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlants dig music and this is the undisputed soundtrack! Subtitled, “warm earth music for plants… and the people that love them,” it is full of bucolic and utterly charming Moog instrumentals. The album would go on to gain an enormous cult following, with Sacred Bones’ 2019 reissue sparking a remarkable second life for Garson’s unlikely masterpiece. Now, to mark the significant new ring in its trunk, we have The Definitive Edition!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable on a stunning-looking ‘Spruce’ vinyl pressing, the Dinked Edition also includes an exclusive plant journal, so you can now log your green-fingered exploits!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor Fans Of: PLANTS! \/ Brian Eno \/ Suzanne Ciani \/ Wendy Carlos \/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith \/ Tangerine Dream\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore 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, \u003cem\u003eMother Earth's Plantasia\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeemingly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps 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 \u003cem\u003ePlantasia\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album gained an enormous cult following decades after its release. Sacred Bones' 2019 reissue helped introduce \u003cem\u003ePlantasia \u003c\/em\u003eto 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 flourishing far beyond its original moment, evolving from obscure novelty into a beloved cult classic and streaming-era touchstone.\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sacred Bones Records","offers":[{"title":"Dinked International Edition - Spruce Colour LP + Plant Journal","offer_id":51552731300118,"sku":"RMX-71082","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Eco Green Mix LP","offer_id":51552731332886,"sku":"RMX-71083","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/Album-packshot.png?v=1783933491","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/garson-mort-mother-earth-s-plantasia-50th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}