Dok (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cyberinsekt) wrote,@ 2007-02-24 11:05:00 |
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Bruce Haack - Electric To Me Turn
Here's the bit where I show my age. As a child, what's the first programme of physical education you can remember from your early schooldays? For me, it was something called "Music and Movement", in which us tots would pretend to grow like trees, or crouch down and then explode. I liked exploding. The music involved, however, was sadly lacking in any interest.
If you were a child in Canada in the '60s, and you were lucky enough to have some progressive teachers, then you might have been able to grow up with the music of the late Bruce Haack. Haack was a pioneer of hand-build electronic instruments, and a composer who defied genres. He wrote both pop and musique concrète. His breakout moment came in 1969. He combined the unconventional medolicism of his children's music with acid rock, delved deep into his bag of synths and produced the wholly remarkable album The Electric Lucifer.
Today's track is the opening number from that album. Electric To Me Turn bounces along, fuelled by sounds the listener had never heard before. Frankly, not many people have heard them since, either. Haack was in no way capable of pandering to the mainstream. Feast your ears on this innocent slice of retro-futurism. It's bloody brilliant.
Here's the bit where I show my age. As a child, what's the first programme of physical education you can remember from your early schooldays? For me, it was something called "Music and Movement", in which us tots would pretend to grow like trees, or crouch down and then explode. I liked exploding. The music involved, however, was sadly lacking in any interest.
If you were a child in Canada in the '60s, and you were lucky enough to have some progressive teachers, then you might have been able to grow up with the music of the late Bruce Haack. Haack was a pioneer of hand-build electronic instruments, and a composer who defied genres. He wrote both pop and musique concrète. His breakout moment came in 1969. He combined the unconventional medolicism of his children's music with acid rock, delved deep into his bag of synths and produced the wholly remarkable album The Electric Lucifer.
Today's track is the opening number from that album. Electric To Me Turn bounces along, fuelled by sounds the listener had never heard before. Frankly, not many people have heard them since, either. Haack was in no way capable of pandering to the mainstream. Feast your ears on this innocent slice of retro-futurism. It's bloody brilliant.
