A characteristic Tortoise album is one that traverses an encyclopedia of styles and reference points

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Mort Garson - Mother Earth's Plantasia (Double LP Audiophile Edition, 180 gram) spoon A characteristic Tortoise album isIf you purchased a snake plant, asparagus fern, peace lily, or what have you from Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles (or bought a Simmons mattress from Sears) in 1976, you also took home Plantasia, an album recorded especially for plants. Subtitled "warm earth music for plantsand the people that love them," it was full of bucolic, charming, stoner friendly, decidedly unscientific tunes enacted on the new fangled device called the Moog. Few