Re: [microsound] [OT] mort garson?

[ndk <ndkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Noticed with previous posts there are some on this list with a good
>knowledge of synths. To you all hereís a history question: maybe you can
>help me with information on Mort Garson? Particularly in regards to his
>electronic albums of the late 60ís ñ early 70ís. Iíve have been unable to
>find any detailed critique of these works, so any info would be greatly
>appreciated.

Cool and Strange Music did a profile of him about a year ago (issue #25)
and described all the albums I've ever heard of (and a few I haven't).
It's not a real detailed critique though. The magazine isn't online
either. Probably well worth picking up a back issue of as there is a
lengthy interview with Jean Jacques Perrey and ...ahem, my interview
with Puffy Amiyumi. 

> Then I think he did separate albums for each sign of the zodiac but I 
> haven't heard any of those.

Yes, "Signs of the Zodiac". Those were done later than the LP "Zodiac
Cosmic Sounds". yes, there are 12 of them  but what makes them a bit of
a letdown is it's pretty much several people take turns talking at
length about the characteristics of your sign over the partly sequenced
synth stuff. You get neither songs nor instrumentals

> My favorite is Plantasia which you're supposed to play to your plants to 
> make them happy. 

Around that time he also did an album based on the book "The Sensuous
Woman" which supposedly has plenty of moaning.

nicholas d. kent

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