Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2019 June 28 • Friday

Happy birthday!

We've been tending to a few plants for a while now: an aloe plant, a pepper plant, and what might be an eggplant plant.

The pepper plant has given us many delicious peppers and some lovely flowers. The aloe is growing slowly but steadily after a rough start. And the eggplant or whatever it is that we got because it was being given away? Some nice flowers so far but that's all.

Encouraged, we picked up an echinacea plant and a nasturtium the other day.

And in addition to sunlight and water and soil, we'll be providing them with Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia.

It's on green vinyl, of course!

It's a great record, kind of like a psychedelic, lounge groove Raymond Scott project.

The liner notes suggest that one of these tunes ends up uncredited as a theme in The Legend of Zelda but I wouldn't know about that.

They are great grooves and great melodies, though, with incredibly Moog sounds and textures.

The original notes are fairly extensive and hippyish, and include cartoons.

In addition to the title track there are "Symphony for a Spider Plant", "Baby's Tears Blues", "Ode to an African Violet", "Concerto for Phildendron and Pothos", "Rhapsody in Green", "Swingin' Spathiphyllums", "You Don't Have To Walk a Begonia", "A Mellow Mood for Maidenhair" and "Music To Soothe the Savage Snake Plant".

I expect our plants to like it!