Experiments in Plant-Based Music: Vol. I is Dana Buoy's exuberant and strangely assuring synthesis of houseplants and a home drumkit. Inspired by the flora that reign on the ground floor and Mort Garson’s endlessly pleasing Plantasia, and conceived in the basement beneath, these 12 pieces of luxuriant pop — rooted in Steely Dan and synthesizer strata, Afrobeat energy and astral harmonies, Robert Hunter koans and righteous horns — offer new mantras for and prospective maps of our complicated lives. “From nest we fall in no time at all,” Janssen coos at one point over incisive funk. “Know that I got you, I got you.” If you worry about any New Age tedium to a record inspired by photosynthesis, don’t: Janssen wants you to sing along with what he’s learned. RADIO - College & Specialty: Jessica Weber | jessica@cosign.com RADIO - AAA: Ronda Chollock | rchollock@gmail.com SYNC: Josh Briggs | josh@terrorbird.com