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Mort Garson

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Mort Garson on 8 January 2022. Mort Garson has been played on NTS over 140 times, featured on 118 episodes and was first played on 13 April 2014.

Morton S. Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian-born composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s that were among the first to feature Moog synthesizers. He also co-wrote several hit songs, including "Our Day Will Come", a hit for Ruby & the Romantics. According to Allmusic, "Mort Garson boasts one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop."

'Mother Earth's Plantasia', which was released in 1976, was a series of Moog compositions designed to be played for growing plants. According to his daughter, Day Darmet, Garson made the album inspired by her mother's plants. Despite its extremely limited distribution, the album became a cult hit in the late 2010s when it was circulated online.

Mort Garson was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He later moved to New York City where he studied music at the Juilliard School of Music. He worked as a pianist and arranger before being called into the Army near the end of World War Two.

Garson died of renal failure in San Francisco in 2008, at the age of 83.

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Mort Garson

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Mort Garson on 8 January 2022. Mort Garson has been played on NTS over 140 times, featured on 118 episodes and was first played on 13 April 2014.

Morton S. Garson (20 July 1924 – 4 January 2008) was a Canadian-born composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s that were among the first to feature Moog synthesizers. He also co-wrote several hit songs, including "Our Day Will Come", a hit for Ruby & the Romantics. According to Allmusic, "Mort Garson boasts one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop."

'Mother Earth's Plantasia', which was released in 1976, was a series of Moog compositions designed to be played for growing plants. According to his daughter, Day Darmet, Garson made the album inspired by her mother's plants. Despite its extremely limited distribution, the album became a cult hit in the late 2010s when it was circulated online.

Mort Garson was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He later moved to New York City where he studied music at the Juilliard School of Music. He worked as a pianist and arranger before being called into the Army near the end of World War Two.

Garson died of renal failure in San Francisco in 2008, at the age of 83.

Original source: Last.fm

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Plantasia
Mort Garson
Homewood Records1976
Ode To An African Violet
Mort Garson
Homewood Records1976
Music To Soothe The Savage Snake Plant
Mort Garson
Homewood Records1976
Rhapsody In Green
Mort Garson
Homewood Records1976
Cathedral Of Pleasure
Mort Garson
Sacred Bones Records2020
Swingin' Spathiphyllums
Mort Garson
Homewood Records1976
Big Sur
Mort Garson
A&M Records1968
Concerto For Philodendron And Pothos
Mort Garson
Discos Hermanos0
Concerto For Philodendron & Pothos
Mort Garson
Homewood Records1976
Walking In Space
Mort Garson
A&M Records1969