Mort Garson – Mother Earth's Plantasia LP (green) garage as if by magic

as if by magic

Of course there were significant amounts of mushrooms involved too and several UFO sightings

As the Decline of Western Civilization comes into full focus

Chilling vocal harmonies resonate atop melodic guitar leads and a razor-sharp rhythm section as the album stretches to just under twenty-five minutes

Coil mined further into the recesses of surrealist eldritch electronica Balance termed “moon music” – post-industrial spellcasting at the axis of narcotic and nocturnal energies

Mort Garson – Mother Earth's Plantasia LP (green) garage as if by magicIf 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 "warm earth music for plantsand 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. Few