Mort Garson - Journey To The Moon And Beyond (Mars Red Vinyl)

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. 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.

1. Zoos of The World

2. The Big Game Hunters See the Cheetah

3. Western Dragon (Pt 3)

4. Western Dragon (Pt 2)

5. Moon Journey

6. Music for Advertising #6

7. Black Eye (Main Theme)

8. Western Dragon (Pt 1)

9. Music for Advertising #7

10. Captain DJ Disco UFO (Pt II)

11. Three TV IDs 12. Music for Advertising #8

13. Love is a Garden

14. The D-Bee's Cat Boogie

15. Black Eye (End Credits)