― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I bought a copy of the Lord of the ringts record for three bucks last year. Weird fun meandering psych. It totally isn't funky tho, it is more like proggy synth folk than anything really propulsive. I saw the cover, checked the copyright date, and read the words "moogs and organs" and I was sold. It turned out to be a decent record.
It is really odd that this thread came up today. I have a huge clutch of cassette tapes in the console of my car. I have not touched any of them in more than 18 months. I went through them last night and found a tape with nothing on it. I had no idea what it was, so I threw it in on the way home from the club for the hell of it. It was a copy of Lucifer Black Mass that a friend had made for me about two years ago that I had completely forgotten about. It was a pleasant suprise to hear that album coming out of the speakers after a really good night at the club.
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Friday, 13 May 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/h/hyman_dick~_moongasja_101b.jpg
i listened to the Mort Garson track you posted to the soft pop thread and it wasn't really what i was expecting. way more harmonized vocals than i expected. really nice
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
i saw it on a wall yesterday for 25$. i have garson's Electric Hair Pieces and one of the Zodiac records, but don't really care for either of them. too much kitchy, googly moog.
milton, i know you said you liked it, but you also said you liked the Emil Richards "Stones" record which i also felt was too silly (the wife asks, "why the fuck are you listening to this Disneyland Electric Light Parade music?")
― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
and I uh also kinda _like_ “Main Street Electrical Parade” especially the original pre-Disney version -- don't you like Perrey & Kingsley?
"Ataraxia" is definitely kitsch for me, lots of googly silly jazzy fills & straightforward moog sounds. don't pay $25, I've got a cdr you can rip
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
you know, maybe i just don't like pre-psychedelic moogy synthy stuff?
pulled out my Lothar & The Hand People cd the other day and giggled a bunch. some great tracks on there, but tons of crap.
― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Friday, 29 July 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― trond berg, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I doubt it, though I can see why you'd speculate.
That self-titled Head LP by Raicevic on Buddah is crucial.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Sunday, 27 August 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i have this 7-inch picture disc! the electric light parade music. it's awesome. great moog action. and the picture disc itself is heavenly looking. one of my favorite disney records.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 27 August 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Storefront Church (688), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Composer Mort Garson dies at 83 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117978685.html?categoryid=16&cs=1
― jaxon, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Love his records. RIP.
― chaki, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't know he'd gone. His records are pieces of wonder
I still haven't heard 'Didn't You Hear' ,or Madagascar though
― Hello Everyone!, Sunday, 27 April 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PzjP4wgWs
Didn't You Hear?
― Hello Everyone!, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't know either. RIP.
It might not be cool or suitably appreciative of the man's diverse talent to single out the big weepy song, but Big Sur from the Wozard of Iz turns my nervous system inside out every time.
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 11:02 (fifteen years ago) link
This is some great post-Exorcist shit right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ur4JFH-rJM
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 17 June 2010 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
That self-titled Head LP by Raicevic on Buddah is crucial.― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal)
Yes it is, and we have a reissue now.https://www.discogs.com/107-34-8933-Numbers/master/544949
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umiE2B8ODYI
― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/plantasiajust came from this; was fun to listen to the album nice and crisp while walking inside a massive greenhouse.Sacred Bones is aiming to release the complete Garson catalogue over the next few years; they're working with his family so it sounds like it might even happen!https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/sbr3030-mort-garson-mother-earths-plantasia
BK Botanic Garden had Garson's original moog on displayhttp://i.imgur.com/rSlyPJl.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
Ugggghhhh wish I knew about this
― Evan, Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
Been thinking his stuff badly needs re-issuing.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 June 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
Imminent Plantasia reissue here: https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/mother-earths-plantasia
― screator, Friday, 21 June 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
I didn't really know much about this guy until hearing a few albums of his at work in the last year. We got the reissue of Plantasia in and I ended up picking it up. I can feel this album is going to be my new obsession.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 23 June 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Your wish is Sacred Bones's command:
https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/didnt-you-hear
https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-patch-cord-productions
This second one appears to be unreleased/little hard 70s recordings, the first is a straight up reissue of an obscure soundtrack "originally available only in the lobby of the theater at screenings of the movie in Seattle" per the liners.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
Little heard not little hard but maybe both.
Also, apparently vinyl-only (maybe?) runs of Lucifer's Black Mass and Ataraxia's The Unexplained, though maybe other services/labels are handling digital.
https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr3033-lucifer-black-mass
https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr3034-ataraxia-the-unexplained
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
looks like these will be on spotify too!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
oh man, this alternate take of "African Violet" - always one of my fave Garson tracks - is really everythinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLrnfsbpTH4
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
btw, this is prob worth buyinghttps://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/music-from-patch-cord-productions-t-shirt
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
Hadn't seen this thread before---speaking of Bernie Krause, he dispenses just enough shadowy particles all around ill wind guitar on The Link Wray Rumble, US issue Polydor – PD 6025: one of my all-time faves, never on legit CD, although some of it was reissued on the Link comp Guitar Preacher, and maybe all of it could be a YouTube playlist from time to time (found some in his remarkable archive.org stash too). Krause's moments def. quality over quantity.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
Oh my god, this track is *incredible*. Breaking my heart at the moment, in the best way. Feels almost like if Mort Garson had collaborated with Paul Williams (if Paul Williams were a better singer).
https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/track/didnt-you-hear
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 09:06 (three years ago) link
brewdog advert
― conrad, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
New archival release!
https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-moon-and-beyond
And get this!
The crown jewel of the set is no doubt Garson’s soundtrack to the live broadcast of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, as first heard on CBS News. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for Moogkind. But for decades, this audio was presumed lost, the only trace of it appearing to be from an old YouTube clip. Thankfully, diligent audio archivist Andy Zax came across a copy of the master tape while going through the massive Rod McKuen archive. So now we get to hear it in all its glory. Across six minutes, Garson conjures broad fantasias, whirring mooncraft sounds, zero-gravity squelches, and twinkling études. It showcases Mort’s many moods: sweet, exploratory, whimsical, a little bit corny, weaving it all together in a glorious whole.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 16:22 (eleven months ago) link
I...did not expect this:
https://mortgarson.bandcamp.com/album/disco-ufo
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 17:08 (six months ago) link