Mort Garson - Zoos of the World (Official Visualizer)

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From the album "Journey to the Moon and Beyond", out now on Sacred Bones Records.

Artwork by Robert Beatty @robertbeattyart
Animated by Mickey Miles @mickey4miles

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), some previously unreleased and newly unearthed music for advertising. Just as regal is “Zoos of the World,” where Garson soundtracks the wild, preening, slumbering 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.

The crown jewel of the set is no doubt Garson’s soundtrack to the live broadcast of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, as first heard on CBS News. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for Moogkind. But for decades, this audio was presumed lost, the only trace of it appearing to be from an old YouTube clip. Thankfully, diligent audio archivist Andy Zax came across a copy of the master tape while going through the massive Rod McKuen archive. So now we get to hear it in all its glory. Across six minutes, Garson conjures broad fantasias, whirring mooncraft sounds, zero-gravity squelches, and twinkling études. It showcases Mort’s many moods: sweet, exploratory, whimsical, a little bit corny, weaving it all together in a glorious whole.

Maybe at the time it scanned as crass and opportunistic for Garson to apply his keyboards to subjects like astrological signs, the occult, hippiedom, houseplants, or the moon landing. But more than most other electronic music pioneers of his ilk, Garson foresaw the integration of such electronics into our daily lives, how they would allow us to engage with the world –in small daily things, popular trends, and big historical events– with our tweets, posts, reaction videos, and the like. In that way, Garson lived such history and then added his own little spin on things.
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This makes me feel I'm watching the overture of an old movie.

ZaidValRoa
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at 2:27, a string line very similar to the motif from MCR's Welcome To The Black Parade is heard

benjaminternets
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Loving the Mort Garson love!! Crossing my fingers of a Wozard of Iz rerelease some day...

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Mort Garson - Zoos of the World (Official Visualizer) 1711pm 28.6.23 sounds like a delve into the retro muzakikal world of that bloke from the band they deem osees or thee o sees...

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ZOOZ!
you're son as returned..
Iv'e comed seking the DESTRUCTION OF OLYMPUS!

Darkgubz
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One can only hope that we can save our Planet from overpowering overpopulation.

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