Mort Garson Ataraxia The Unexplained Electronic Musical Impressions Of Occult LP

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?Mort Garson : Ataraxia : The Unexplained
Electronic Musical Impressions Of The Occult

Album Description: Besides for a small light scuff on track one, the vinyl record is in glossy clean excellent to near mint condition. The cover has some surface wear, some "waving", some discoloration along top edge of back cover, catalog number sticker near top right corner (please see photos). The pictures in this listing are of the actual record album you will receive. Check out our other listings for more records from this artist along with a wide variety of vinyl, CD's and more. All reasonable "Best Offers" considered. Combined shipping available worldwide. Only $.50 additional shipping for each record within the USA; only $3.00 additional shipping for each record outside the USA. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please let us know if you have any questions for a prompt reply. Tracklist and additional album information below.

Tracklist:
1. Tarot
2. Sorcerer
3. Deja Vu
4. Astral Projection
5. Sceance
6. I Ching
7. Cabala
8. The Unexplained
9. Wind Dance

Mort Garson was born July 20, 1924, in the Canadian city of St. John, New Brunswick. He attended the Juilliard School of Music, briefly graduating to the ranks of professional pianist and arranger. Garson cemented a reputation as a top session hand, tackling arranging, conducting, or even composing duties if necessary; a small sampling of his credits includes sessions by Mel Tormé, Doris Day, Ed Ames, the Lettermen, and the Sandpipers. He also arranged and conducted a series of easy listening records in the mold of Les Baxter, among them the Continentals' Bossa Nova for All Ages, the Total Eclipse's Symphony for the Soul, and the Dusk 'Til Dawn Orchestra's Sea Drift. In 1963, Garson teamed with lyricist Bob Hilliard to write the lovely "Our Day Will Come," a number one pop hit for Ruby & the Romantics; with Perry Botkin Jr., he also arranged and conducted a number of easy listening records inspired by the era's biggest pop hits, among them two volumes in the Hollyridge Strings' Play the Beatles Songbook series and also their Play the Hits of Simon & Garfunkel. And in 1968, Garson experienced his crowning moment of commercial glory as the string arranger behind the Glen Campbell blockbuster "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." But the aforementioned accomplishments are all mere prelude to the most fascinating work of Garson's career, specifically, the series of electronic LPs he made with spoken-word artist Jacques Wilson. 1967's Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds, which also featured contributions from electronic pioneer Paul Beaver, was the first record cut on the West Coast to feature Robert Moog's namesake synthesizer, and a year later the principals reunited for the Bernie Krause-produced The Wozard of Iz, An Electronic Odyssey, a hallucinatory psychedelic satire of the L. Frank Baum children's classic featuring Nancy Sinatra (credited as "Suzy Jane Hokum") as Dorothy. For A&M, Garson next recorded Electronic Hair Pieces, electronic renditions of songs from the hit musical Hair, as well as the 12-volume Signs of the Zodiac series, with one record for each astrological sign. His masterpiece, however, is undoubtedly 1971's Black Mass/Lucifer, a seriously freaky and intense concept record drawing upon themes and images central to Satanist mythos. That same year, Garson teamed with performance artist Z for the aural aphrodisiac Music for Sensuous Lovers. He then spent the next several years composing film and television scores, returning to record stores in 1975 with another occult-themed effort, The Unexplained - Ataxaria; subtitled "Electronic Musical Impressions of the Occult", this album by Ataraxia (meaning: A spiritual balance, the synonim of a state of perfection that is not possible to be reached by human beings entirely, Ataraxia becomes a state of tension and we try to open our minds to be receptive and perceptive towards the occurings of life). Each title was named after an occult phenomenon or theme, and this time the titles seemed to suggest that the lighter side of occultism was in focus. Even the cover featuring a mystic but calm "aura" face was very fitting to the album's contense. A year later, Garson issued Plantasia, a collection of Moog pieces designed to boost the growth of indoor plants. Now living in San Francisco and still composing, Mort Garson, ranks as one of the real geniuses of 20th century music. (web bio)


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