Mother Earth's PlantasiaMort Garson · 1975

loudandquiet

8.0

“In Los Angeles in 1976, if you bought a houseplant from Mother Earth Plant Boutique on Melrose Ave, a heap of bumf came with it: a plantcare booklet, a “remedy chart” to diagnose disease, and, most curiously, an LP, specially commissioned by Mother Earth themselves and designed to be played in proximity to your new photosynthesising friend to encourage it to grow. That record, ‘Plantasia’, was onl”

pitchfork

7.2

“This Moog synth album from 1976 was meant to help houseplants grow. Jurys out on that, but it became a cult classic nonetheless.”