Hush Little Robot

Track Listings

1. Electric to Me Turn

2. This Old Man

3. Bods

4. Elizabeth Foster Goose

5. Four Dances

6. Wooden Bread

7. Program Me

8. School for Robots

9. Shine On

10. Rubberbands

11. War

12. Chant of the Unborn

13. Incantation

14. Song of the Death Machine

15. Word Game

16. Thank You

17. Campus Radio Voice A

18. Campus Radio Voice B

Hush Little Robot,Bruce Haack,Qdk Records,Canada,Computer Music,Electronic,Obscuro,Pop,Rock,Sing-Along,Space Age Pop

Hush Little Robot

Tracks:

Electric to Me Turn
This Old Man
Bods
Elizabeth Foster Goose
Four Dances
Wooden Bread
Program Me
School for Robots
Shine On
Rubberbands
War
Chant of the Unborn
Incantation
Song of the Death Machine
Word Game
Thank You
Campus Radio Voice A
Campus Radio Voice B

Customer Reviews:

electric visionary.......2005-06-08

I had the pleasure of hearing some of Mr. Haack's music several years ago on a local college station. Being a huge fan of electronic and more experimental musics, his songs grabbed my attention instantly. Unfortunately, it wasn't until very recently that I decided to buy the dvd documentary about the man and his music and subsequently bought this cd. Actually both go together quite well as an introduction to the world of Mr. Haack, and what an extraordinary world it is. The guy is a sort of musical VanGogh in the sense that his work is a vivid, colorful, energetic precursor to what people are finally waking up to. He had a real ability to blend the right amount of experimentation with pop, and seriousness with humor. If only he was still alive today, I'd imagine his phone would be ringing off the hook with people wanting to work with him. The sounds, melodies, beats and rhythms generated from his self-made electronic equipment are buzzing and pulsing with so much warmth and life you can almost touch them. This cd is for anybody into music that is adventurous, electronic, whimsical, and intelligent. I only with there were more liner notes to accompany it, which is why the dvd is a good companion to this release.

Let that Robot Sing!.......2001-12-12

This is the only collection of Bruce Haack's music availible on CD that I know of, sadly -as this is great stuff! Like Raymond Scott before him, this man was one of the true musical geniuses of electronic music. Bruce was obviously years ahead of his time musically, creatively (he built his own keyboards) and perhaps even spiritually. His music continues to inspire artists even today (e.g. Beck, Add N to X).

Six of the tracks are taken from his brilliant 1970 "Electric Lucifer" record. The robot-voiced "electric to me turn" is his best song ever. Overall this CD is a good example of Bruce's work. My only complaint is that some of the included songs (from his records that were originally made for children) seem a little out of sync with some of the darker spaced-out sounds from his Electric Lucifer concept album -which would be best suited heard it's own, in it's entirety on CD. (Hopefully it will be someday...) On the other hand, you get the best of both worlds here by getting to sample some of his "kids stuff" too. By all means this is highly recommended. Get it on CD while you still can!

a hack Haack was not..........2000-05-24

Wherein Bruce goes out on his own, sans Miss Nelson, and gives us what appears to be a children's record for robot-children from sometime in the dark, distant alternaverses of the future. Beneath that conceptual scrim, however, it's a Bruce Haack album through and through -- goofy electronically re-done nursery rhymes ("This Old Man"), freakazoid oscillator death-dirges ("Electric to Me Turn" -- one of his scariest, finest moments ever), ballads beamed back from dehumanized societies of the future ("Death Machine"), and strange electronic kiddie-dances ("Rubberbands") not so very far from what Raymond Scott might have come up with had he continued his "Soothing Sounds For Baby" project past the 18-month mark. As good as "Listen Compute Rock Home," if less overtly nursery-school.