Mort Garson - Moon Journey (Official Visualizer)

From the album “Journey to the Moon and Beyond“, out July 21, 2023 on Sacred Bones Records. Pre-order / pre-save: Artwork by Robert Beatty @robertbeattyart Animated by Mickey Miles @mickey4miles Like a perennial that returns with each new spring, the Mort Garson archives have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom. Journey to the Moon and Beyond finds even more new facets to the man’s sound. There’s the soundtrack to the 1974 blaxploitation film Black Eye (starring Fred Williamson), some previously unreleased and newly unearthed music for advertising. Just as regal is “Zoos of the World,” where Garson soundtracks the wild, preening, slumbering animals from a 1970 National Geographic special of the same name. The mind reels at just what project would have yielded a scintillating title like “Western Dragon,” but these three selections were found on tapes in the archive with no further information. The crown jewel of the set is no do