Mort Garson - Journey To The Moon & Beyond - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Archive from the Canadian-born electronic music pioneer. Garson is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s that were among the first to feature Moog synthesizers. Album Tracks 1. Is He Trying to Tell Us Something? (Instrumental) 2. Rhapsody in Green (Alternate Take) 3. Baroque No.2 4. This Is My Beloved 5. Music for Advertising #1 6. Music for Advertising #2 7. Music for Advertising #3 8. Killers of the Wild 9. Realizations of An Aeropolis 10. Music for Advertising #4 11. Music for Advertising #5 12. Theme from Music for Sensuous Lovers Part I (Instrumental) 13. Son of Blob Theme 14. Cathedral of Pleasure 15. Ode to An Africa Violet (Alternate Take) 16. Space Walker 17. Dragonfly 18. Geisha Girl 19. Oue Day Will Come

The Mort Garson (Plantasia, Ataraxia, Lucifer) archives have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom. Journey to the Moon and Beyond is a colourful synthetic dream world consisting of a collection of largely unreleased and unheard material from the Patch Cord Productions archives. Highlights include music from a soundtrack to the 1970 National Geographic special and the live broadcast of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, as first heard on CBS News. Album Tracks 1. Zoos of the World 2. The Big Game Hunters See the Cheetah 3. Western Dragon (PT 3) 4. Western Dragon (PT 2) 5. Moon Journey 6. Music for Advertising #6 7. Black Eye (Main Theme) 8. Western Dragon (PT 1) 9. Music for Advertising #7 10. Captain DJ Disco Ufo (PT II) 11. Three TV Ids 12. Music for Advertising #8 13. Love Is a Garden 14. The D-Bee's Cat Boogie 15. Black Eye (End Credits)

If 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) in 1976, you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled Inchwarm earth music for plants... and the people that love them,Inch it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the Moog. 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 InchBy the Time I Get to Phoenix.Inch But as his daughter Day Darmet recalls InchWhen my dad found the synthesizer, he realized he didn't want to do pop music anymore.Inch Garson encountered Robert Moog and his new device at the Audio Engineering Society's West Coast convention in 1967 and immediately began tinkering with the device. InchMy mom had a lot of plants,Inch Darmet says. InchShe didn't believe in organized religion, she believed the earth was the best thing in the whole world. Whatever created us was incredible.Inch And she also knew when her husband had a good song. Novel as it might seem, Plantasia is simply full of good tunes. This marks the first official re-issue of the long sought-a er cult classic. Hearing Plantasia in the 21st century, it seems less an ode to our photosynthesizing friends by Garson and more an homage to his wife, the one with the green thumb that made everything flower around him.InchMy dad would be totally pleased to know that people are really interested in this music that had no popularity at the time,Inch Darmet says of Plantasia's new renaissance. InchHe would be fascinated by the fa