Bridging the ultrasynthetic and hyperorganic, Mort Garson’s album Mother Earth’s Plantasia is a Moog-powered salve “for plants . . . and the people who love them,” as the cover art notes. Since its ...
In 1976, Mother Earth’s Boutique, a small plant shop on Melrose Ave., handed out free copies of a record called “Plantasia” to customers buying houseplants. The record, which was mostly electronic ...
Alex Zhang is one of many artists participating in this year's Plantasia at Garfield Park Conservatory. Credit: courtesy the artist Time has only deepened the music community’s affection for Mort ...
It was made by an easy-listening songwriter and given away free with mattresses. Now thanks to YouTube’s algorithm, Mort Garson’s Plantasia has become an underground hit In the early noughties, Caleb ...
At the dawn of the 1970s, Mort Garson installed a Moog synthesizer in his Laurel Canyon home studio. In those early days of Moogs, the modular synthesizer was a massive piece of equipment — a dizzying ...
In 2019, it seems almost inconceivable that a book could heavily influence pop culture, but that’s exactly what 1973’s The Secret Life of Plants did. Written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, ...