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Blooming with New Life
Why Mother Earth’s Plantasia Is the Soothing Synth Album We Need Right Now
🌿 Growing with Sound: The Cult Bloom of Mother Earth’s Plantasia
Why Mort Garson’s synth symphony for plants still resonates—and why its revival feels just right, right now.
It began as a botanical oddity. In 1976, Canadian composer Mort Garson, a master of the Moog synthesizer, quietly released an album unlike any other:
🌱 Mother Earth’s Plantasia—“warm earth music for plants… and the people who love them.”
But you couldn’t find it in record stores. This lush, whimsical collection of synth compositions was distributed exclusively through Los Angeles’ Mother Earth plant store and Sears’ mattress sales. Buy a houseplant or a Simmons mattress, and you’d get the vinyl. That was it.
The album vanished.
Then, like the houseplants it was meant to serenade, it came quietly back.
🌼 Sound for the Soil, Songs for the Soul
Each track on Plantasia is a love letter—wordless, electronic, and full of playful wonder. From the gentle pulse of “Symphony for a Spider Plant” to the blooming swells of “Rhapsody in Green,” Garson used his Moog not for cosmic abstraction, but for grounded affection. He imagined that plants, like people, might respond to kindness, vibration, and beauty.
But Garson was ahead of his time. Science hadn’t caught up with the idea that plants could respond to music—or that humans might need new sonic rituals for care, calm, and connection.
Now, nearly fifty years later, that vision feels less like a novelty and more like prophecy.
🌎 The Age of Rewilding—Inside and Out
The comeback of Plantasia is more than a retro vinyl trend. It mirrors a cultural shift:
🪴 Houseplants are booming, especially among millennials and Gen Z, who cite plants as companions, mood boosters, and reminders to slow down.
🔌 Analog soundscapes have re-entered the mainstream, with lo-fi synth, ambient compositions, and field recordings grounding listeners in increasingly digital lives.
🌱 Care-based living—from home gardening to meditation and minimalism—is flourishing. And with it, a hunger for tools that soften the noise of modern life.
Garson’s album, long a lost gem, returned in 2019 via Sacred Bones Records. Since then, Plantasia has found a new audience on streaming platforms, ASMR playlists, YouTube deep-listening channels, and the turntables of collectors who see it as both sonic art and soul balm.
📻 Why It Feels So Timely Now
We’re living in an era of what scholar Bayo Akomolafe calls “cracks in the asphalt.” Places where the wild, the strange, and the old-new truths are seeping back into public consciousness. Plantasia sits in that crack—a product of technological optimism and deep, floral tenderness.
It’s not just music for plants.
It’s music about care.
About attention.
About the quiet alchemy that happens when we believe beauty matters, even when no one is watching—or listening.
In the digital landscape of today, that’s radical.
✨ Replanting the Future, One Synth at a Time
There’s something bold about choosing softness. Something revolutionary about making room for gentleness, for play, for growth.
Mother Earth’s Plantasia might’ve started as a niche curiosity. But its rebloom is telling us something:
We’re ready to listen again.
To ourselves. To nature.
To frequencies that don’t shout—but shimmer.
So dust off the record player. Or press play on Spotify. Set your pothos nearby.
And let the Moog hum its tender ode to life, leaf by leaf.
Mother Earth’s Plantasia Full Album
Dig Deeper
The Work of “Plantasia” Composer Mort Garson is Explored in a New Reissue Series – When you hear Plantasia for the first time, it’s very warm and comforting. You feel like it’s something you’ve lived with for your whole life.”
The Secrets of Mort Garson’s Plantasia – In a 2024 video, composer and synthesist Anthony Marinelli offers a unique look at recreating the sound of Mort Garson‘s Plantasia – one of the greatest ‘Moogsploitation’ albums of the ’70s.
Plantasia: Sonic Fertilizer & Novelty Record – The album is filled with Moog synthesizer symphonies and space age tunes that were advertised as a way to help your plants grow.
More to Explore
The Listening Field: Earth’s Music in Real Time – There’s music that you play, and then there’s music that plays itself. This Earth Day, ambient pioneers Brian Eno and Tarun Nayar invite us to listen not just to melodies—but to the planet itself.
Houseplant Appreciation Day – January 10 marks National Houseplant Appreciation Day, when we can appreciate the greenery and life of our houseplants during the deep of winter
World Music Therapy Day – World Music Therapy Day on March 1 every year is a day for people all around the world to celebrate the healing power of music.
International Day of Forests – The United Nations proclaimed March 21 to celebrate and raise awareness of our planet’s forests.
National Garden Week – National Garden Week takes place annually in the first full week of June.
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“Plantasia at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden” was an evening of multi-sensory experiences inspired by Mort Garson’s 1976 album ‘Mother Earth’s Plantasia.’ Attendees enjoyed ambient modular explorations performed live by electronic artist Patricia throughout the duration of the June 2019 event.
🪞 Reflection Prompt: What’s one gentle ritual that helps you grow—no matter who’s watching?
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