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Mother Earth's Plantasia
1976 studio album by Mort Garson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mother Earth's Plantasia is an electronic album by Mort Garson released in 1976.
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Background
The "Mother Earth" in the album's title refers to Lynn and Joel Rapp, a couple of fern correspondents who had authored plant care books and were friends of composer Mort Garson.[6] The music on this album was composed specifically for plants to listen to.[7] Garson was inspired by his wife, who grew many plants in their home.[8] Garson used a Moog synthesizer to compose the album, the first album on the West Coast of the United States composed entirely on the Moog synthesizer.[8]
The album had a very limited distribution upon release, only being available to people who bought a houseplant from a store called Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles or those who purchased a Simmons mattress from a Sears outlet, both of which came with the record.[7] As a result, the album failed to attain widespread popularity around the time of its release. However, it has since gained a cult following as an early work of electronic music.[9]
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Legacy
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.[10]
A cover of "Plantasia" was produced by Griffin McElroy for use in a 2017 episode of The Adventure Zone.[11]
In March 2019, Sacred Bones Records announced that they were officially reissuing Mother Earth's Plantasia.[9] The reissue is available on music streaming services and was released on vinyl, CD and cassette on June 21, 2019.[7] Angie Martoccio, writing for Rolling Stone in 2019, described Mother Earth's Plantasia as Garson's magnum opus.[12] Stephen M. Deusner, writing for Pitchfork, described it as perhaps Garson's "most beloved album, at least among crate-diggers and record collectors."[4]
For the 2023 tax season, Intuit used the opening track "Plantasia" on a TurboTax advertisement.[13]
In France from 2023, supermarket chain giant Intermarche used the same track in a long-running TV advert for their '10 per cent' sales campaign.
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Track listing
Personnel
- Mort Garson – score, electronics
- Eugene L. Hamblin III – electronic engineering
- Sam Nicholson – art direction
- Marvin Rubin – illustrations
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References
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