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Mike Garson - Mike Garson's Jazz Hat (2008) Music

Posted by Designol at Sept. 24, 2023

What do Freddie Hubbard, Stan Getz, Elvin Jones, Lee Konitz, Stanley Clarke, Eddie Daniels, Joe Farrell, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, Gwen Stefani, Seal, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Martha Reeves (to name a few) have in common? The answer is, Mike Garson has played with them all!. These have been called “The fastest fingers in jazz.” David Bowie, for whom Garson has long been music director, says, “He’s the best rock & roll pianist I know.” Recording group Free Flight took advantage of his classical training, and Hollywood calls when it needs a virtuoso assoluto. In short, Mike Garson is a phenomenon, able to mimic Bill Evans or Liberace on command, or to soothe an audience with New Age hypnotics. But he’s at his very best wearing his “jazz hat.” Supported by a stellar cast of Brian Bromberg (acoustic bass), Ralph Humphries (drums) and Eric Marienthal (alto saxophone), Garson turns in a memorable set of originals and imaginative arrangements of standards.

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Benjamin Garson - Biome (2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 17, 2024

The Paris Conservatoire’s Initiale label supports young artists at the beginning of their journeys. Their latest releases include this beautiful mosaic of solo music for guitar from Benjamin Garson which moves from classical to jazz and from lively to serene.

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Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976) [Reissue 2019] Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 24, 2024

In 1976, early electronic composer Mort Garson released an album called Mother Earth’s Plantasia, subtitled "warm earth music for plants… and the people that love them." In the decades following its release, the album went out of print while amassing a cult following among record collectors and plant enthusiasts alike. Sacred Bones has now announced the CD's first official reissue. Mort Garson was a pioneer of electronic music in the 1960s and an early user of Robert Moog's synthesizer. 'Plantasia' released in 1976 added warmth to the previously darker and colder melodies of earlier electronic releases. By turn playful, surreal or sinister, this is a diverse collection of sounds from a true innovator.

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Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976) [Reissue 2019] Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 24, 2024

In 1976, early electronic composer Mort Garson released an album called Mother Earth’s Plantasia, subtitled "warm earth music for plants… and the people that love them." In the decades following its release, the album went out of print while amassing a cult following among record collectors and plant enthusiasts alike. Sacred Bones has now announced the CD's first official reissue. Mort Garson was a pioneer of electronic music in the 1960s and an early user of Robert Moog's synthesizer. 'Plantasia' released in 1976 added warmth to the previously darker and colder melodies of earlier electronic releases. By turn playful, surreal or sinister, this is a diverse collection of sounds from a true innovator.

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Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976/2019/2021) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 7, 2021

Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976/2019/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 30:51 minutes | 314 MB
Progressive Electronic | Label: Sacred Bones Records, Official Digital Download

If you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears), you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled “warm earth music for plants…and the people that love them,” it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner-friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new-fangled device called the Moog.

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Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon and Beyond (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 20, 2023

Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon and Beyond (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 33:57 minutes | 655 MB
Progressive Electronic | Label: Sacred Bones Records, Official Digital Download

When Sacred Bones first began their Mort Garson reissue project in 2019 with a proper reissue of Plantasia, the Garson-naissance began in earnest. Soon after, you could hear Mort Garson and his Moogs bubbling up on TV shows, documentaries, podcasts, hip-hop tracks, or anywhere else, the man a cultural phenomenon once more. Like a perennial that returns with each new spring, the Mort Garson archives have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom.

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Mort Garson - Music From Patch Cord Productions (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 21, 2021

Mort Garson - Music From Patch Cord Productions (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 279 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 112 Mb | 00:47:08
Electronic | Label: Sacred Bones Records

A collection of rare and unreleased recordings from the archives of electronic music pioneer Mort Garson, composer of Mother Earth's Plantasia. The compilation plays like an ultimate Mort Garson playlist, and includes alternate takes of Plantasia tracks, music for never-aired radio advertisements, themes for science fiction films, erotic oddities, and much more from the prolific composer's '60s and '70s synthesizer oeuvre. This deluxe edition includes art by Robert Beatty and new liner notes by Andy Beta

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Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon and Beyond (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at July 20, 2023

Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon and Beyond (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 202 MB| MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 88 MB
33:50 | Electronic | Label: Sacred Bones Records

Like a perennial that returns with each new spring, the Mort Garson archives have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom. Journey to the Moon and Beyond finds even more new facets to the man’s sound. There’s the soundtrack to the 1974 blaxploitation film Black Eye (starring Fred Williamson) alongside some newly unearthed music for advertising. Just as regal is “Zoos of the World,” where Garson soundtracks the wild, preening, slum- bering animals from a 1970 National Geographic special of the same name. The mind reels at just what project would have yielded a scintillating title like “Western Dragon,” but these three selections were found on tapes in the archive with no further information.

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Bowie's Piano Man: The Life of Mike Garson eBooks & eLearning

Posted by IrGens at Dec. 22, 2020

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Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations For Piano (2011) {Reference Recordings} Music

Posted by TestTickles at Jan. 29, 2019

Mike Garson - The Bowie Variations For Piano (2011) {Reference Recordings}
EAC Rip | FLAC with auCDtect | scans | 220 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 117 mb
Genre: jazz

The Bowie Variations For Piano is a wonderful way to hear the music of David Bowie but done in solo piano form, this time by pianist Mike Garson. A wonderful tribute album, courtesy of Reference Recordings, which means it could be the best. No, it is the best.

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