Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon and Beyond - on MARS colored vinyl

Mort Garson 
Journey to the Moon and Beyond
Sacred Bones 3042 - on "Mars" colored 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 Garsonarchives 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.

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.

      Tracks are;
Zoos of the World 
See the Cheetah (as The Big Game Hunters)
Western Dragon Pt 3
Western Dragon Pt 2
Moon Journey 
Music for Advertising #6
Black Eye (Main Theme) 
Western Dragon Pt 1
Music for Advertising #7
Disco UFO Pt II (as Captain DJ)
Three TV Ids 
Music for Advertising #8
Love is a Garden 
Cat Boogie (as The D-Bee's )
Black Eye (end credits) 

NEW SEALED LP on super limited MARS colored vinyl packaged in a die-cut jacket