Electronic Hair Pieces
Electronic Music realized and Arranged by Mort Garson
Produced by EmGee Productions
Recorded at EmGee Electronic Studios
Engineer: Michael V. Ragsdale (Associate Sound)
Art Director: Tom Wilkes
Photography: Jim McCary
A&M Records
1969
A&M Records
1969
From the back cover: Hair and electronic music are both innovations that make a break with tradition. Hair is a social and artistic statement of today, and points the way to bow things should be tomorrow. The marriage is dynamic.
Mort Garson, the leading exponent of electronic music, re-created the music of Hair in his own $50,000.00 electronic studio. Using a Moog Synthesizer, with many oscillators, patch cords, filters, various forms of modulation and program sequences, he has given a new dimension and clarity to Galt MacDermot's brilliant musical creation.
Mort Garson's own creative interpretation of this music has, more clearly than ever before, exposed to the listener the brilliant and beautiful melodic structure of this incredible musical. This is an audio experience that could only be captured electronically. It is a pure electronic album in that no traditional instruments were used.
Being familiar with the "Hair" cast album and the show itself, it is amazing how Mort has electronically captured the nuances, phrasing, and color of the actual performance. In particular Be In (Hare Krishna), Easy To Be Hard, and Hair.
Mort Garson's obvious comprehension, love and understanding of what Hair is about, although not in the contemporary "soul" bag, has imparted a crystalline clarity to its music, and has uniquely enhanced the genius of Hair's creators, Galt MacDermot, Jim Rado, and Jerry Ragni. – Tom Smothers
Aquarius
Mort Garson, the leading exponent of electronic music, re-created the music of Hair in his own $50,000.00 electronic studio. Using a Moog Synthesizer, with many oscillators, patch cords, filters, various forms of modulation and program sequences, he has given a new dimension and clarity to Galt MacDermot's brilliant musical creation.
Mort Garson's own creative interpretation of this music has, more clearly than ever before, exposed to the listener the brilliant and beautiful melodic structure of this incredible musical. This is an audio experience that could only be captured electronically. It is a pure electronic album in that no traditional instruments were used.
Being familiar with the "Hair" cast album and the show itself, it is amazing how Mort has electronically captured the nuances, phrasing, and color of the actual performance. In particular Be In (Hare Krishna), Easy To Be Hard, and Hair.
Mort Garson's obvious comprehension, love and understanding of what Hair is about, although not in the contemporary "soul" bag, has imparted a crystalline clarity to its music, and has uniquely enhanced the genius of Hair's creators, Galt MacDermot, Jim Rado, and Jerry Ragni. – Tom Smothers
Aquarius
Frank Mills
Be In
Good Morning Starshine
Three-Five-Zero-Zero
Hair
Easy To Be Hard
Where Do I Go?
Walking In Space
Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)
Oh yes! Space Age. Very fun! I like the music. (this track, anyway)the classic synthesizer sounds. Too bad he had to go and spoil it by doing covers of pop tunes.
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