Mother Earth's Plantasia

By: Mort Garson

Origin: Unknown

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Track Listing

10 tracks

Plantasia

Track 1 Side 1 03:21
Symphony for a Spider Plant

Track 2 Side 1 02:41
Baby's Tears Blues

Track 3 Side 1 03:03
Ode to an African Violet

Track 4 Side 1 04:02
Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos

Track 5 Side 1 03:08
Rhapsody in Green

Track 1 Side 2 03:27
Swingin' Spathiphyllums

Track 2 Side 2 02:58
You Don't Have to Walk a Begonia

Track 3 Side 2 02:31
A Mellow Mood for Maidenhair

Track 4 Side 2 02:17
Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant

Track 5 Side 2 03:23

Insight

Copies of ‘Plantasia’ were initially given away with Simmons mattresses (!) in the mid 70’s, the flora friendly record also came with an illustrated booklet on how to let the music speak to your plants, soothing them with soft oscillations and bouncy electro pop. How this music is supposed to relate to plants is beyond me, but it’s all the better for it, since the tunes are so good, many far ahead of their time in the ambient electronic pop idiom. Occasionally dipping into cheeky Perrey-Kingsley territory, these tolerable moments are more than forgiven by some of the other, more esoteric tracks that bounce and bleep their way around your virtual electro-greenhouse (or your headphones).

Mort Garson: score, electronics
Recorded at Patchcord Electronic Studio
Electronic Engineering by Eugene L. Hamblin III

Art Direction by Sam Nicholson
Illustration by Marvin Rubin

Warm earth music for plants...and the people who love them