Mort Garson

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i didnt like the emil richards that much, it was ok, i prefer tom dissevelt.

i should check out more subotnick

not enough electronicy stuff is hippyish.

i dream of big sur, though, i think i dont like california so much, after all.

*@*.* (gareth), Friday, 5 November 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

i wish my name was Kid Baltan.

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 5 November 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"not enough electronicy stuff is hippyish."

Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies were! They even said so. I consider both U.S.A. & White Noise pretty hippyish.

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 5 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

OOOOH WHITE NOISE!!1

i just heard a few mp3s and tried to buy it on ebay for 10$ (GOT FUCKING SWIPED 5 SECONDS TILL THE END!!) but that record is fucking great. weird, hippy, pop songs over synth noise.

JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 5 November 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

jaXoN, are you on slsk. i think, i like your taste, most of all, on ilx at the moment

i was in jaXoNs house recently, i saw gal costa records, but not mort garson, were you hiding them?

*@*.* (gareth), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

though scott seward has great taste. i havent been in his house though, is it as plush as jaXoNs?

*@*.* (gareth), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

My house is small. But cozy. Lots of records everywhere. I do live somewhere pretty though, so the scenery is nice.

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

And I don't have Mort Garson's Wizard Of Oz record. But I DO have Meco's Wizard Of Oz record and the great twee/fairytale psych record by The World Of Oz. And I might have a copy of The Wiz.

scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

gal costa is rad.

doomie x, Friday, 5 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

gareth, check out walter sear - the copper plated intergrated circuit. its ace. if my 'second missing' copy of the circuit arrives in post do you want to do a swap?

i got into walter through cherrystones. he's in a band called PREY with barry 7 ... check out what he said about walter sear

It was madnesss recording an album in New York. We did it down at Walter Seer's studio and he is like an American version of Joe Meek. He recorded the Copper Plated Intergrated Circuit album. Walter is an absolute nut. He would tell us all these mad stories about the studio. He used to do the soundtracks from horror or mondo films from the 70s. The soundtracks were so demented. Very weird people. Walter and his secretary Roberta Finchley. Roberta used to direct all the porn films. She had these shoulders hunched up to her ears and always would greet me as Mr Godsey. Before we left they let us take all these porn movie posters with John Holmes on them and what not. It was great.

They said that the studio was haunted as well, that was one of the reasons we went there. It was the last studio that John Lennon was in before he was shot. And he told us some stories about Mobb Deep and D'Angelo that I really can't relate for legal reasons but they are amazing. Very weird and amazing experience.

doomie x, Friday, 5 November 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm bugging cherrystones to make cdr copies of walter sears horror and porn soundtracks at the moment.

doomie x, Friday, 5 November 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

the legend walter sear. would love to hear more of the music, have never heard 'copper integrated circuit'

http://members.aol.com/searsound/articles2.html

http://www.basichip.com/digitalgold/mp3002b/sear.jpg

http://www.basichip.com/digitalgold/mp3002b/mp3002b.htm

(Jon L), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link

copper plated intergrated circuit is the bomb of moog albums. they go for outrageous prices but somehow i lucked out with this one - three quid. the first one i bought was going for 30 american. but that's never arrived. THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE WE DAMN EBAY. DAMN YOU EBAY TO HELL. etc etc.

doomie x, Friday, 5 November 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

american version of joe meek sounds fantastic. i am playing a lot of joe meek at the moment, mainly the geoff goddard and glenda collins tracks

i'd like to hear this sears/circuit stuff, and i wont say no to any copies of anything!

there is a church in reno that has the most amazing church bells, i think i want a record of that more than anything. it was like a fake version of russian bells, but maybe it wasnt, it was its own thing. its the best sound ive heard since the train station tannoy in calais. have you been to reno?

i need to give costa a go. last time i played a lot of gal costa, i was all into marcos valle, and preferrred him, maybe i wont this time out

*@*.* (gareth), Friday, 5 November 2004 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link

the record i have is more brazilian psych with alot of eastern influences - hold on i'll check my record collection...TUAREG. that's the one that's been recommended to me and i bought it blind and was not disappointed.

doomie x, Friday, 5 November 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i have a cherrystones 12" somewhere, from a long time ago, 98? 99? looking back thinking forward, i think its called. its ok, but, if you dont have it, and want it, its yours, doomie

*@*.* (gareth), Saturday, 6 November 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

though its only a promo, picked up in vinyl exhange on oldham st, for a pound

*@*.* (gareth), Saturday, 6 November 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

cool, gareth - email me when you've got the terry durham album. cherrystones, its weird, he was getting in a good spot - the one ep - remedies and symptoms was a good hip hop take of the taking of pelham 123 soundtrack. but i wonder if the early stuff is any good. prey is pretty good and i must say - he is an impeccable dj.

doomie x, Saturday, 6 November 2004 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link


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doomie x, Saturday, 6 November 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

what about nik pascal?

*@*.* (gareth), Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:52 (nineteen years ago) link

inform me?

i spent the day yesterday interviewing joey stec. i felt bad because i was really interested in curt boettcher.

doomie x, Thursday, 11 November 2004 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i dont know, ive never heard nik pascal, i just hear his name mentioned, in proximity to garson, a lot. if hes similar, then i think i would like it a lot

*@*.* (gareth), Thursday, 11 November 2004 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link

How much of this are you sharing on slsk right now Gareth? I haven't plundered your hard drive in a while so I don't know.

Of the three tracks I've heard, I think Over The Rainbow is my favourite. Who is that singing?

Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 November 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

'suzy jane hokum', ha. it is rumoured to be nancy sinatra, in some quarters. but i think its just that, a rumour.

*@*.* (gareth), Thursday, 11 November 2004 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

hey gareth, i musta missed this thread last week. the only garson record i have is the Electronic Hair Pieces, which as i said upthread i've only listened to a few times.

i'm unfortunately not on soulseek (DAMN MACS). maybe when i get a new computer with more hardrive space i'll get off my lazy ass and try to figure out how to install it (doesn't it take days?)

and one more annoying ebay story. i just won the John Phillips Wolfking record and i paid by paypal. right after i submitted my payment i realized they had my old address. so i corrected it, contacted paypal and contacted the seller. and it still goes to the wrong address. luckily my old building had a front desk that held onto it and i was able to pick it up, but FUCK YOU EBAY

JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone heard that s/t 1970 Head album on Buddah? (Head is some guy named Nik Raicevic.)
Titles: "Cannabis Sativa" "Methedrine" "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"

As you can imagine, it's trippy as fuck and recommended for anyone into Subotnick, Tonto's Expanding Head Band, or Garson.

Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, i thought that was nik pascal?

*@*.* (gareth), Friday, 12 November 2004 10:08 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
has anyone heard the madagascar/shoo bird 7?

Stringent Stepper (Stringent), Thursday, 10 February 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

http://i1.ebayimg.com/03/i/03/5b/4d/93_1_b.JPG

what is it like? when is it from?

charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link

there is a mort garson record scheduled to come out this year?!?! some kind of musical about the life of greta garbo?

charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I listened to Mort Garson and Francois De Roubaix all morning!

adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Saturday, 26 February 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

:)

i put other stuff on slsk today

chartonlido (gareth), Saturday, 26 February 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

gareth, have you ever listened to Bo Hansson? he's a swedish synth/prog type guy. i have three of his records, "Attic Thoughts", "Music Inspired By Watership Down", and "Music Inspired By Lord of the Rings". they're all really cool, moody, almost funky synth shit. i really dig them. Lord of the Rings is probably the best, sounds like it's been sampled by DJ Shadow or something, but i don't know fer shure. i think the aquarius site has some clips of it.

LaToya JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 27 February 2005 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i have the lord of the rings record, and its pretty good, im playing it right now

charlton lido (gareth), Saturday, 12 March 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link

have you guys heard that?

charleston charge (chaki), Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

oops mentioned already on this thread sowwy

charleston charge (chaki), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
has anyone heard the soundtrack to Didn't You Hear? it appears to be from 1970, but the film never got released until 83??? i wonder what the soundtrack is like. i wonder, what the film is like

charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Based on the MGM catalogue no. of that Madagascar single, I'd say it's from 1959 - is that possible?

Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

yea, he was doing stuff way earlier than that (examine one doris day career!)

charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah - well there you are then (K 12899 is a 1959 Connie Francis single)

Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...
i picked up Love Sounds - The Love Strings of Mort Garson (1968), but i havent played it yet. looks to be 12 original tracks, post cosmic sounds, but pre wozard of iz. i wonder what it is like

charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

gareth, have you ever listened to Bo Hansson? he's a swedish synth/prog type guy. i have three of his records, "Attic Thoughts", "Music Inspired By Watership Down", and "Music Inspired By Lord of the Rings". they're all really cool, moody, almost funky synth shit. i really dig them. Lord of the Rings is probably the best, sounds like it's been sampled by DJ Shadow or something, but i don't know fer shure. i think the aquarius site has some clips of it.

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 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...
gareth, have you heard Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo's "Moon Gas"? it's a pretty great record. real bubbly and nice wordless vocals. i got a copy for 6$, but i've seen it for $100-150.

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

one month passes...
can anyone explain the Ataraxia album (misspelled a bunch upthread)

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

"Stones" is silly but I also find it demented & the moog leads are Residents-level strange, & catchy in a way that goes beyond kitsch for me (though there's a bit of that too)

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

suite!

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

i've also never been able to get into the Residents, although probably because i haven't tried that hard and it's for another thread

plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Garson is Canadian; according to the liner notes of the Cosmic Sounds CD, he currently lives in San Francisco - but he's got to be in his 80's by now. before Cosmic Sounds, he did arrangements for The Lettermen, Hollyridge Strings, Soulful Strings etc. - and most notably another album for Elektra called "Dusk 'Till Dawn Orchestra" (it's the catalogue number between The Doors 1st album and Cosmic Sounds. He also did a synth porno record! Black Mass Lucifer, Ataraxia, Plantasia...great albums. I second (or third) the Beaver & Krause recommendation. Fifty Foot Hose is good too.

SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Friday, 29 July 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...
hi, i stumbled upon this thread while searching for info on the great mort garson. i'm really curious as to why he's so largely overlooked, his career spanning all those years and music being as great as it is. btw: is nic(pascal)raicevic one of garson's aliases, like ataraxia or z?

trond berg, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 07:38 (eighteen years ago) link


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