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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
