MORT GARSON 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: Canadian composer Mort Garson enjoyed an eclectic career, though in electronic music circles he's most celebrated for a string of experimental electronic albums he produced using early Moog synthesizers. "Mother Earth's Plantasia" is a bizarre but brilliant beast: a 1976 set that was designed to be played to plants to help them grow (really) and was given away free at a Los Angeles garden store. As this first ever reissue proves it remains a dizzyingly far-sighted set. Sometimes symphonic, occasionally spacey and always intoxicating, much of the material is far quirkier than contemporaneous synthesizer-fired sets. Highlights include the pulsing ambient spaciousness of "Ode To An African Violet", the twinkling, cascading beauty of "Rhapsody In Green" and the jaunty cheeriness of "You Don't Have To Walk a Begonia".

Review: Canadian composer, arranger, and songwriter Mort Garson was born in 1924 in New Brunswick, Canada. After graduating from the prestigious Juilliard School of music in the late 60's, Garson started his deep exploration and mastery of Moog synthesizers. Following his meeting with Robert Moog, Garson began creating soundscapes with the now legendary analog synth on his third album Electronic Hair Pieces LP in 1969. This LP: Mother's Earth Plantasia had arrived years later in 1976 demonstrating further explorations. The album is dedicated to the gestation of plants, with the liner notes mentioning "warm earth music for plants and the people who love them". This opus was apparently created to make your plants grow faster! Whether its the lush analogue symphony of "Plantasia" or the psychedelic 8-bit business of "Ode To An African Violet" or the deep and immersive ambience of "Rhapsody In Green" this album is a real gem.