In the mid-1970s, a force of nature swept across the continental United States, cutting across all strata of race and class, rooting in our minds, our homes, our culture. It wasn’t The Exorcist, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, or even bell-bottoms, but instead a book called The Secret Life of Plants. The work of occultist/former OSS agent Peter Tompkins and former CIA agent/dowsing enthusiast Christopher Bird, the books shot up the bestseller charts and spread like kudzu across the landscape, becoming a phenomenon. Seemingly overnight, the indoor plant business was in full bloom and photosynthetic eukaryotes of every genus were hanging off walls, lording over bookshelves, and basking on sunny window ledges. The science behind Secret Life was specious: plants can hear our prayers, they’re lie detectors, they’re telepathic, able to predict natural disasters and receive signals from distant galaxies. But that didn’t stop millions from buying and nurturing their new plants.

Perhaps the craziest claim of the book was that plants also dug music. And whether 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 them. 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. Plants date back from the dawn of time, but apparently they loved the Moog, never mind that the synthesizer had been on the market for just a few years. Most of all, the plants loved the ditties made by composer Mort Garson.

Few characters in early electronic music can be both fearless pioneers and cheesy trend-chasers, but Garson embraced both extremes, and has been unheralded as a result. When one writer rhetorically asked: “How was Garson’s music so ubiquitous while the man remained so under the radar?” the answer was simple. Well before Brian Eno did it, Garson was making discreet music, both the man and his music as inconspicuous as a Chlorophytum comosum. Julliard-educated and active as a session player in the post-war era, Garson wrote lounge hits, scored plush arrangements for Doris Day, and garlanded weeping countrypolitan strings around Glen Campbell’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” He could render the Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel alike into easy listening and also dreamed up his own ditties. “An idear” as Garson himself would drawl it out. “I live with it, I walk it, I sing it.”

Swingin' Spathiphyllums

(Goblin)
The seven goblins lived by eating the colours from rainbows ;
For that reason, they were known as the Rainbow Goblins
They were always looking for rainbows to suck the colours from them and so to fill their bellies
One day, the Rainbow Goblins heard about the Valley of the Rainbow
It gave them an infinite appetite, just thinking about the great banquet they could enjoy there
Immediately, they gathered their tools and set off in search of the legendary valley
It didn't matter to them, to roam about the steep hills or to climb up the high mountains
Whenever difficulties arose concerning their journey, they just thought of the delicious colours ahead


This is the 3rd song that Masayoshi Takanaka (高中正義) made on the album "The Rainbow Goblins" (1981)

I had to add a minute  of nothing to avoid copyright @~@

Masayoshi Takanaka 高中正義 - Seven Goblins (The Rainbow Goblins 1981)

a cover of a beautiful song from the album Seychelles

Masayoshi Takanaka - 憧れのセーシェル諸島

Original by Masayoshi Takanaka [1981]

Oscilloscope view: https://youtu.be/In3nTKsj-Mk

Speed Of Love [Cas's VRC7 ver.]

Masayoshi Takanaka - Speed Of Love [Cas's VRC7 ver.]

My love for this mans, beautiful excerpt, Feel So Good, is absolute. Good lord.. The memories.

Chuck Mangione Tribute | Feel So Good | @LouisPierreProd

Pot City

Slipper Sleaze

Easy Listening from KPM 1000 Series (1970-76)

Time to Fly - KPM 1000 Series Compilation (1970-76)

Fun in the Sun - Neil Richardson

On the Move

Jun Fukamachi - On the Move

Tropic Birds by Masayoshi Takanaka. Super Studio Live recording. Jazz Rock Fusion.

Fun in the Sun - Neil Richardson

Drugstore Music