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| Released | 1968 | |||
| Studio | EmGee Electronic Studio | |||
| Genre | Electronic,spoken word,psychedelic | |||
| Length | 35:05 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Bernard Krause | |||
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The Wozard of Iz (also known asThe Wozard of Iz: An Electronic Odyssey) is a 1968 album of electronic music composed and realized byMort Garson and conceived and written by Jacques Wilson. Itpsychedelically parodies the 1939 filmThe Wizard of Oz, setting the characters in the 1960s with ahippie mindset.[1] Throughout the story the main character, Dorothy, seeks out "where it's at".
The album was released the year following another collaboration between Garson and Wilson,The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds, a concept album issued byElektra Records.
In a 1969 interview, Garson admitted that he hadn't used theMoog synthesizer in "a very sophisticated way" for his 1967 album,The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds.[1] However, by the time ofThe Wozard of Iz, he had learned most of the techniques for using the instrument.[1]
Kim Cooper, in the 2005 bookLost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, describedThe Wozard of Iz as "the pinnacle of the rather small genre of psychedelicWizard of Oz-themed albums", also citingThe Wizard of Oz and Other Trans Love Trips, by the West Coast Workshop, in this genre.[2] Garson's album was sampled bythe Avalanches for their 2016 albumWildflower, and gave its name to one of the tracks on that album.[3]
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