◇ image via WikipediaMort Garson
Mort Garson is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Sacred Bones Records. Those roots explain a lot about how Mort Garson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hiroshi Yoshimura, Susumu Yokota, Oneohtrix Point Never, Animal Collective and Stereolab, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Julie London, Nancy Wilson, No Rome, Paul Revere and the Raiders and Brenda Lee, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Mort Garson, reaching back through Sacred Bones Records and forward to Julie London. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Morton Sanford Garson was a Canadian composer, arranger, songwriter, and pioneer of electronic music. He is best known for his albums in the 1960s and 1970s, such as Mother Earth's Plantasia (1976). He also co-wrote several hit songs, including "Our Day Will Come", a hit for Ruby & the Romantics. According to Allmusic, Mort Garson boasts one of the most distinctive and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop.
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Mort Garson connections
Mort Garson grew out of Sacred Bones Records, shares an orbit with Hiroshi Yoshimura, Susumu Yokota, Oneohtrix Point Never and Animal Collective, went on to shape Julie London, Nancy Wilson, No Rome and Paul Revere and the Raiders. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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