Orlando Weekly

Orlando synthesists pay tribute to Mort Garson at this weekend’s ‘Modern Moog’ event

Synth magus Mort Garson may no longer be with us, but the bleep-bloop trailblazer left an outsized musical legacy that is spurring on musicians young and old to this day. Garson was one of the first ...
The Portland Mercury

Finally, the Music of Mort Garson Presented as It Should Be: WITH LASERS

"Oh hi, I didn't see you standing there. I'm Mort Garson, and this is my Moog." Credit: courtesy of Night Howl Productions Aside from Pink Floyd, few artists’ catalogs seem more tailored to score a ...
Pitchfork

Sacred Bones Announces Mort Garson Reissues, Shares New Song: Listen

Sacred Bones is reissuing four albums by Canadian-born composer, arranger, and electronic music pioneer Mort Garson. Didn’t You Hear OST (1970), Lucifer’s Black Mass (1971), Ataraxia’s the Unexplained ...
BroadwayWorld

Sacred Bones to Release Mort Garson's 'Journey to the Moon and Beyond' This Friday

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Nearly in tandem with the release date, July 20th will mark Garson's 99th birthday ...
The Stranger

Mort Garson’s NASAmbient and Garek Druss’s Healing Drones

New York label Sacred Bones has been undertaking the important job of reintroducing Canadian composer/synthesist Mort Garson‘s variegated recordings into the marketplace. Garson (1924-2008) was at ...
Chicago Reader

Plantasia puts down roots at the Garfield Park Conservatory for its third installment

Bridging the ultrasynthetic and hyperorganic, Mort Garson’s album Mother Earth’s Plantasia is a Moog-powered salve “for plants . . . and the people who love them,” as the cover art notes. Since its ...
Willamette Week

Show Review: Laser Mort Garson at OMSI

If you’re a regular reader of this column, you know that seeing live music is an unbeatable experience (and according to one recently released study, it may help prolong your life!). But when you go ...
NPR

Music For Plants Is Real (Even If The Science Isn't)

At the dawn of the 1970s, Mort Garson installed a Moog synthesizer in his Laurel Canyon home studio. In those early days of Moogs, the modular synthesizer was a massive piece of equipment — a dizzying ...
The Stranger

Sacred Bones to Reissue Mort Garson’s Evergreen 1976 Moog LP, Mother Earth’s Plantasia

This is my kind of roots music. Credit: Sacred Bones Records Now that an official re-release is happening (in conjunction with Discogs, oddly enough), the mystique and allure of their film seem ...
Rolling Stone

Hear Mort Garson’s Unreleased Disco Funk Song ‘Dragonfly’

Sacred Bones Records, which recently announced plans to reissue four Seventies albums by Mort Garson, has shared the electronic pioneer’s unreleased song “Dragonfly.” “We chose this song to really ...
Rolling Stone

Hear Mort Garson’s Alternative Take of ‘Ode to an African Violet’ From ‘Plantasia’

As Sacred Bones Records gears up to reissue four Mort Garson albums this fall, the label has shared “Ode to an African Violet,” an alternative take from 1976’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Plantasia was ...