{"product_id":"mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-50th-anniversary-lp-spruce","title":"Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (50th Anniversary Dinked Edition) [LP - Spruce]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #db2424;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Release Date: September 04, 2026. Release dates are subject to change. We are not responsible for pressing delays.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel: Sacred Bones\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #db2424;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDinked Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e+ Spruce coloured vinyl* \u003cbr\u003e+ 4.5\" x 7\" Plant Journal* \u003cbr\u003e+ 11” x 11” liner notes \u003cbr\u003e+ Limited pressing of 1500* (800 US) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\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 By the Time I Get to Phoenix.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. It wasn’t The Exorcist, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, or even bellbottoms, but instead 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeemingly overnight, the indoor plant business was in full bloom and photosynthetic eukaryotes of every genus were hanging off walls, lording over bookshelves, and basking on sunny window ledges. 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\u003cbr\u003etheir new plants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the craziest claim of the book was that plants also dug music. And whether you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home Plantasia, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album gained an enormous cult following decades after its release. Sacred Bones’ 2019 reissue helped introduce Plantasia to a wider global audience, sparking a remarkable second life for Garson’s unlikely masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, 50 years after its original release, Mother Earth’s Plantasia 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 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACK LISTING:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide A\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlantasia (3:23)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSymphony for a Spider Plant (2:41)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBaby’s Tears Blues (3:03)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOde to an African Violet (4:04)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConcerto For Philodendron And Pothos (3:09)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSide B\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRhapsody In Green (3:28)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSwingin’ Spathiphyllums (2:59)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou Don’t Have To Walk A Begonia (2:31)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Mellow Mood For Maidenhair (2:17)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMusic To Soothe The Savage Snake Plant (3:23)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44530706874419,"sku":"840526511846","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/5935\/9283\/files\/CopyofINT5_MAIN_SQ.jpg?v=1783973847","url":"https:\/\/seasickbham.com\/products\/mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia-50th-anniversary-lp-spruce","provider":"Seasick Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}