Sacred Bones announces major Mort Garson reissue campaign

Three key Mort Garson albums from the ’70s, as well as a compilation of rare and unreleased material, are out this fall on Sacred Bones Records.

The major reissue campaign follows the success of the RA-recommended reissue of Garson’s 1976 private-press LP, Mother Earth’s Plantasia. The newly remastered titles include Music From Patch Cord Productions, a collection of rare and unreleased recordings from Garson including “never-aired radio advertisements, themes for science fiction films, erotic oddities and much more from the prolific composer’s ’60s and ’70s synthesizer oeuvre.”

The dive into Mort Garson’s ’70s discography also includes a newly remastered vinyl reissue of Garson’s OST for Didn’t You Hear. Garson’s Moog-heavy soundtrack for Skip Sherwood’s 1970 movie was one of the first all-electronic film scores and was originally available only in the theater lobby after screenings of the movie in Seattle. Sacred Bones will also reissue Garson’s album as Lucifer, Black Mass, an occult-themed 1971 LP, as well as his 1975 full-length as Ataraxia, The Unexplained, on which he explored supernatural tropes like tarot, astral projection and seances via the synthesizer.

Listen to Mort Garson’s “This Is My Beloved,” off the Music From Patch Cord Productions compilation.

Tracklist
Mort Garson – Music From Patch Cord Productions
01. Is He Trying To Tell Us Something?

02. Rhapsody In Green

03. Baroque No. 2

04. This Is My Beloved

05. Music For Advertising #1

06. Music For Advertising #2

07. Music For Advertising #3

08. Killers Of The Wild

09. Realizations Of An Aeropolis

10. Music For Advertising #4

11. Music For Advertising #5

12. Theme From Music For Sensuous Lovers Part I

13. Son Of Blob Theme

14. Cathedral Of Pleasure

15. Ode To An African Violet

16. Space Walker

17. Dragonfly

18. Geisha Girl

19. Our Day Will Come

Mort Garson – Didn’t You Hear
01. Didn’t You Hear?
02. No Smoking

03. Dream Sequence 1

04. Dream Sequence 2

05. Kevin’s Theme

06. Sail! Sail!

07. Kevin And Paige

08. Bamboo City

09. Walk To Grange Hall

10. Virgil’s Theme

11. Walk To The Other Side Of The Island

12. Death Talk And Jeep Approach

13. Jeep Ride

14. Dead Tree

15. Didn’t You Hear? (End Title)

Lucifer – Black Mass
01. Solomon’s Ring
02. The Ride Of Aida (Voodoo)
03. Incubus
04. Black Mass

05. The Evil Eye
06. Exorcism
07. The Philosopher’s Stone

08. Voices Of The Dead (The Medium)
09. Witch Trial Esp

Ataraxia – The Unexplained
01. Tarot
02. Sorcerer
03. Deja Vu
04. Astral Projection
05. Seance
06. I Ching
07. Cabala
08. The Unexplained
09. Wind Dance

Sacred Bones will release Music From Patch Cord Productions, Didn’t You Hear, Black Mass and The Unexplained on November 6th, 2020.