Format Details:
Release Date: 20 January 2023
Label: Telephone Explosion Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 734463100020
Genres: Rock Psychedelic Rock
Release Date: 08 November 2024
Label: Telephone Explosion Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 061297938100
Genres: Rock Psychedelic Rock
Description
Bruce Haack's "The Electric Lucifer" is rightly considered one of the masterworks of 20th century electronic music. Originally recorded in 1968-69, it's an eminently listenable work where Pop-psychedelia and Moog/musique-concrete sounds coalesce. Acclaimed upon it's original release, yet unavailable for over three decades, "The Electric Lucifer" is now available again on LP.
Description
Throughout the 1960s, Canadian composer Bruce Haack was as ubiquitous on children's and variety shows as were exotic animals from the San Diego Zoo - But he wasn't there to perform so much as demonstrate.
In his formative compositions for theatre and ballet, he had experimented with tape loops and musique concrete techniques; by the early '60s, he wasn't just playing around with electronic sounds, but also making the very gizmos that generated them. By day, Haack would eke out a living as a composer for commercials and a series of instructive, interactive children's records made with collaborator Esther Nelson.
But by night, Haack was making music that was decidedly adults-only.
Originally released in 1970, The Electric Lucifer was Haack's first work pitched to a contemporary rock audience, released by Columbia Records in the dying days of a post-hippie moment when bizarro outsider-psych could still find a home on a major label. If it was not the first rock record to feature electronics, it was certainly among the first to give them a starring role--both musically and conceptually.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Dorothea Paas
Bruce Haack
Badge Epoque Ensemble
Andre Ethier
Mas Aya
Jarius Sharif
Blunt Chunks
Tony Price
Bruce Haack
