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Music Direct reserves the right to change the terms of this promotion or discontinue this offer at any time. In March 2019, Sacred Bones Records announced that they were officially reissuing Mother Earth's Plantasia. [8] The reissue is available on music streaming services and was released on vinyl, CD and cassette as well on June 21, 2019. [6] Angie Martoccio, writing for Rolling Stone in 2019, described Mother Earth's Plantasia as Garson's magnum opus. [10] Stephen M. Deusner, writing for Pitchfork, described it as perhaps Garson's "most beloved album, at least among crate-diggers and record collectors." [4]

Few characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: “How was Garson’s music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?” 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 wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” He could render the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel alike into easy listening and also dreamed up his own ditties. “An idear” as Garson himself would drawl it out. “I live with it, I walk it, I sing it.” The music on it was composed specifically for plants to listen to. [6] Garson was inspired by his wife, who grew many plants in their home. [7] Garson used a Moog synthesizer to compose the album, the first album on the West Coast composed entirely on the Moog synthesizer. [7] Music Direct reserves the right to select the carrier and ship method within the terms of this offer. Few characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: “How was Garson’s music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?” 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 wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” He could render the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel alike into easy listening and also dreamed up his own ditties. “An ide ar” as Garson himself would drawl it out. “I live with it, I walk it, I sing it.” THE FIRST AUTHORIZED REISSUE OF MORT GARSON'S LEGENDARY 1976 ALBUM OF MOOG MUSIC FOR PLANTS. INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL MOTHER EARTH'S INDOOR PLANT CARE BOOKLET

Not long after “Our Day Will Come” topped the charts, the Garson family headed west. In Los Angeles, Garson spent the mid-60s working with a who’s who of easy-listening pop stars from the era, including Doris Day and Glen Campbell, until one fateful day in 1967, he attended the Audio Engineering Society's West Coast convention. There, he met the man who invented the Moog modular synthesiser, Robert Moog. Darmet compares her father’s encounter with Moog to the moment French Nouveau Réalisme painter and performance artist Yves Klein made the colour that would become known as ‘ International Klein Blue’ the singular focus of his Blue Epoch. It was an instrument that he totally resonated with. “He got to a certain point and was like, ‘Screw it, I’m going to do what I want’,” says Darmet. “Once he got the Moog and put it in his studio at home, he was there all the time. He was 100 per cent stimulated, and he needed to keep going with this until he couldn’t.” The album also gained popularity on YouTube, with the full album (uploaded without permission) gaining millions of views and thousands of comments spread over multiple different bootleg uploads. [9]

Earlier this week, Brooklyn-based DJ Max Ravitz, performing under his best-known alias Patricia, performed an intimate set to a poncho-clad crowd in a small pavilion in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Steady rain merged hypnotically with the logarithmic wailing and white noise emanating from Ravitz’s Moog System 55, the hulking analog maze bathed in the soft spotlight of a plant lamp. It felt a bit like a cult gathering; graphic designers and wizened hippies on a journey towards spiritual enlightenment, or at least sharing a moment of quiet ecstasy before going their separate ways. Such is the power of Mort Garson’s 1976 album Mother Earth’s Plantasia, “warm earth music for plants and the people who love them,” which was celebrated at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden by Atlas Obscura and Sacred Bones—along with Patricia, an interactive installation of “Sonic Succulents,” and a Plantasia listening experience of “Phytophillic Technology in the Psychedelic Era.” Few characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: "How was Garson's music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?" 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 wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." He could render the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel alike into easy listening and also dreamed up his own ditties. "An idear" as Garson himself would drawl it out. "I live with it, I walk it, I sing it."

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Over time, most of the experiments referenced in The Secret Life of Plants book were discredited. They weren't designed to rule out other explanations that were equally plausible and their results couldn't be replicated by other researchers. Nowadays, most academics regard the book as pseudoscience. "We know that [plants] have all the same kind of senses we do, but they don't have specialized organs for them," explains Heidi Appel, a plant biologist and professor at the University of Toledo. "People always underestimate plants at one level, because they aren't like us, and yet our propensity to anthropomorphize everything — to project the way we see the world, we view the world, we think about the world — on other things that are not human means that we also have this ability to overestimate what plants can do." But as his daughter Day Darmet recalls: “When my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn’t want to do pop music anymore.” Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society’s West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. With the Moog, those idears could be transformed. “He constantly had a song he was humming,” Darmet says. “At the table he was constantly tapping.” Which is to say that Mort pulled his melodies out of thin air, just like any household plant would. Before 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. By the late 50s, Garson had worked his way into writing or co-writing hits for pop artists like Brenda Lee and Cliff Richard. Then, in 1962, Garson composed “ Our Day Will Come” with lyricist Bob Hilliard for American R&B group Ruby & the Romantics. When it was released the following year, it topped the Hot 100 Billboard chart and sold well over a million copies. “It was his biggest moneymaker, and he did some silly things with the royalty rights, but I think it was a learning curve for him,” Darmet says. “You know that saying, is the glass half full or half empty? My dad’s glass was always full, so full that it was overflowing with positiveness. If you lost it, the glass would fill up again. He didn’t have that fear of not being able to create something great again and generate what’s needed. If there are any qualities I’ve gotten from him, that’s one of them.” Appel recognizes and appreciates the creativity of plant-based music. While she notes that all the emotional work is one-sided, that doesn't mean the plants won't be rewarded from this attention. "Forming connections with plants or any other kind of living thing is very beneficial to humans. Creating that atmosphere that makes the human more relaxed, creative, productive — all the things that we know music can do for us — is great," she says. "[And] if we connect with other organisms, we take care of them better. So they may even grow better — not because of music, but because of our sense of connection to them."

But as his daughter Day Darmet recalls: "When my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn't want to do pop music anymore." Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society's West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. With the Moog, those idears could be transformed. "My mom had a lot of plants," Darmet says. "She didn't believe in organized religion, she believed the earth was the best thing in the whole world. Whatever created us was incredible." And she also knew when her husband had a good song, shouting from another room when she heard him humming a good idear. Novel as it might seem, Plantasia is simply full of good tunes. Electronic music is not normally a genre that hugely peaks my interest, but when I read that this album was made specifically for plants to listen to? Now THAT interested me. What do plants like to listen to? What did Mort Garson think classified as ‘music for plants’? As it turns out, the result is rather beautiful. Among the numerous off-the-wall claims Tompkins and Bird made in The Secret Life of Plants, their suggestion that plants loved music proved surprisingly enduring. Music, they wrote, had the capacity to help plants grow rapidly and beautifully, if administered correctly. But before their owners were playing them Stevie Wonder’s new age meditations on plants and their secrets, there was another record that was hip with West Hollywood’s leaf lovers. Data Garden's MIDI Sprout device is designed to translate electrical impulses from plants into musical notes. Petridis, Alexis (2019-07-09). "Mother Earth's Plantasia: the cult album you should play to your plants". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-10-16.

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a b "Mother Earth's Plantasia Gets First Official Vinyl Reissue". Pitchfork. Condé Nast. 22 March 2019 . Retrieved 19 April 2019. Mother Earth's Plantasia (subtitled " warm earth music for plants and the people who love them"), commonly referred to as simply Plantasia, is an electronic album by Mort Garson first released in 1976. Plantasia Audiophile Edition is a 2xLP pressed at 45rpm from a deluxe remastering of the original master tapes.** But as his daughter Day Darmet recalls: “When my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn’t want to do pop music anymore.” Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society’s West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. With the Moog, those idears could be transformed.

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