an exploratory record that dances across time and genre, guided by fidgety miniatures and jazz inflected collage. throughout, the band pool together their instrumental chops, moving from fluid and serpentine r&b to meditative, minimalistic piano, evoking a contrast of virtuosity and self-surrender.
in 2016, after reissuing two bruce haack albums, haackula and electric lucifer book ii, telephone explosion began speaking with ted pandel (bruces lifelong friend and business partner) about working on the 1970 masterpiece the electric lucifer. it turned out there was another matter that he wanted to discuss: finding a final resting place for the bruce haack archive.
one of the masterworks of 20th century electronic music, the electric lucifer by bruce haack. originally recorded in 1968 and 1969 (and released in 1970) it is an album both unique in conception and superb in realization. your your gateway to the profound yet playful universe of bruce haack, a -far-out- place where flower-power and inner-space electronics collide!