Mother Earth's Plantasia - Mort Garson (1976)

ideated from: the oddest stuff I could find from a random album list generator

I try not to just regurgitate what I learn from wikipedia in this space, but the opening of this record’s wiki is too good not to share:

Mother Earth’s Plantasia (commonly referred to as simply Plantasia) is an electronic album by Mort Garson first released in 1976. The music on it was composed specifically for plants to listen to. The album had a very limited distribution upon release, only being available to people who bought a houseplant from a store called Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles or those who purchased a Simmons mattress from a Sears outlet, both of which came with the record.

There was a school of thought in the 70s that you could achieve anything with a Moog synth, and this is, honestly, a pretty good effort. I always say that I like electronic music for the miniature worlds it summons, and this is definitely one of those. The limited palate of the Moog makes that world sound a little cartoonish, but it’s no less good for all that.