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Various - Music For Plants

Label:

PerfectIfOn

Catalog#:

85926/2

Format:

2 x CD, Mixed

Country:

Released:

Jun 2005

Genre:

Electronic, Rock

Style:

Acoustic, Abstract, Post Rock, Experimental, Ambient

Tracklist

1-01	Mice Parade -	Guitars For Plants	4:40
1-02	Tetsu Inoue & seed( ) -	Untitled (Panspermia)	5:26
1-03	No-Neck Blues Band -	Sekura Melody	3:43
1-04	Languis -	Photosynthesis	5:38
1-05	HiM -	Moss Garden	4:08
1-06	Syntony -	Ceremony (To Grow By)	1:05
1-07	Deaken and Geologist -	Seeing Twinkles	3:45
1-08	Ariel Pink -	Passing The Petal 2 U	2:43
1-09	Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom -	Field Effect 4	2:25
1-10	Sunburned Hand of the Man -	Somaville Lumber	4:46
1-11	Ara Peterson -	White Window	3:36
1-12	Hiroshi Sunairi & Hideyuki Mari -	Piano By The Sea	1:09
1-13	Fugu -	Pianolyre	1:40
1-14	Tony Goddess -	Bees	2:52
1-15	Zs -	Red On Still	3:29
1-16	Anthony Burdin -	Prodigious Manipulator	4:04
1-17	Wiese & Koh -	Guys From Paradise	4:03
		Electronics - John Wiese , Tim Koh
1-18	This Invitation -	A Silent Tropic	3:08
1-19	Kenta Nagai -	Flower Ghost	1:58
1-20	Liam Gillick -	Untitled Music For Plants	3:27
1-21	Kites -	Miracle Of Thought	1:08
2-01	Jutta Koether , Alan Licht & Tom Verlaine -	Plant Jam	5:13
2-02	Black Dice -	Greenhouse Tune	2:30
2-03	Arto Lindsay -	Plant Mix	2:15
2-04	DJ Olive -	Coffee, Oxygen & Gas	3:06
2-05	Phil Manley -	Green Theme	2:17
2-06	David Grubbs -	Leopard Island	3:10
2-07	Electrophilia , Jutta Koether & Steven Parrino -	Vibration	0:54
2-08	Carter Thornton -	Zashikwarashi	6:56
2-09	LoVid -	Pineapple	1:50
2-10	Flanged Confection -	Chlorophoric Optimal Antics	2:44
2-11	Christian Marclay -	Green Breath	3:04
2-12	Tom Barnes , Chris Corsano , Sean Meehan , Barry Weisblat & Michael Evans (2) -	Plant Music	13:20
2-13	Rusty Santos -	Feel Radio Signals (Botanical Mix)	3:07
2-14	Roland Alley -	Saya Mau Minum Air (I Want to Drink Water)	4:57
2-15	Dearraindrop -	Cannabis Cloudfloat	2:18

Notes

Music for Plants, ©2005 PerfectIfOn. Some tracks were recorded live in the greenhouse at the Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY in 2002. The front cover image is Wolfgang Tilman's "Icestorm" 2001, courtesy the artist and Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY. The inside traycard image is Christian Holstad's "Learning to Think Kindly (Pink Baby's Breath #2)", 2003, Collage on Paper, courtesy the artist and Daniel Reich Gallery, New York. The insert includes an image of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Storybook, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1982, still from The Secret Life of Plants, Paramount Pictures, 1977, and an Image of research equipment reading a plant's bio-signals source unknown) and documentation from Dorothy Retallack's research featured in The Sound of Music and Plants, published in 1973 by DeVorss & Co. (photographer unknown).

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Rated 5/5

Review by tracingtheta Jul 13, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

This is one of the strangest releases I own. The producers themselves seemed to have gone through some efforts to remain low profile. PerfectIfOn after 2 years still has yet to release something else, and a lot of the artists listed do not have a proper album to their discography, much less something outside this compilation. I think this suggests a wide use of pseudonyms.

Nevertheless, the tracks on this compilation all stack up well. All the tracks are simple and pensive, incorporating beautiful analog noodlings or acoustics, and they're all edited together with very good timing. It makes for a good listening experience, and, considering the title, puts your head in a "plant space." In the end, this is a great compilation for it's concept, mystique, and good execution.