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September 4th 2026
Multicolour Eco-mix Anniversary Vinyl
50th anniversary edition of the quintessential album "Mother Earth's Plantasia" by Mort Garson. Before 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". In the mid-1970s, a force of nature swept 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. Seemingly 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. Perhaps 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. The 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, 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.
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