{"product_id":"mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-50th-anniversary-edition","title":"Mother Earth's Plantasia (50th Anniversary Edition)","description":"\u003cp\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 \u003cem\u003eBy the Time I Get to Phoenix.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\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: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeemingly overnight, the indoor plant business was in full bloom. 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. Perhaps the craziest claim of the book was that plants also dug music. And when you purchased a house plant, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased: September 2026\u003cbr\u003eCat: SBR3030LP-C18\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Sacred Bones Records\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eListen\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01. Plantasia (3:23)\u003cbr\u003e02. Symphony for a Spider Plant (2:41)\u003cbr\u003e03. Baby’s Tears Blues (3:03)\u003cbr\u003e04. Ode to an African Violet (4:04)\u003cbr\u003e05. Concerto For Philodendron And Pothos (3:09)\u003cbr\u003e06. Rhapsody In Green (3:28)\u003cbr\u003e07. Swingin’ Spathiphyllums (2:59)\u003cbr\u003e08. You Don’t Have To Walk A Begonia (2:31)\u003cbr\u003e09. A Mellow Mood For Maidenhair (2:17)\u003cbr\u003e10. Music To Soothe The Savage Snake Plant (3:23)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mort Garson","offers":[{"title":"LP-Multicolour Eco Mix","offer_id":56768428310914,"sku":"04\/09\/26-DISCAR","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1795\/4365\/files\/MortGarson-Plantasia.jpg?v=1784120993","url":"https:\/\/recordculture.com\/products\/mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-50th-anniversary-edition","provider":"Record Culture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}