Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia

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. Described as "warm earth music for plants and the people who love 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.

Mort Garson's interest in the moog was almost as profound as his love for his wife, who loved plants. 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.

This vinyl edition was produced by Emanay Music / Sacred Bones Records in 2019. Includes real seed paper download card that you can plant. Also includes Mother Earth's Indoor Plant Care booklet.

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