Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia - green vinyl LP

50th anniversary of the beloved cult classic of moog music for plants by Mort Garson, Mother Earth's Plantasia.

Before Brian Eno did it, Mort Garson was making discreet music. 

Perhaps the craziest claim of the book The Secret Life of Plants 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.

The album gained an enormous cult following decades after its release. 

What 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.