Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson – The Way-Out Record For Children (LP)

This album is so amazing and bizarre. Electronic music pioneer, Bruce Haack, narrates songs and stories meant for children overtop robot voices, psychedelic sounds, strange effects, and electronic experimentation. Haack's frequent collaborator, Esther Nelson, is also on board. The 1968 album (originally pressed by Dimension 5) is more likely to scare children than prompt them to dance.

You can thank Mississippi Records for reissuing this one - order LPs direct from their distributor, Little Axe. You might also try Mediafire.



Tracklist:
A1 Introduction 0:34
A2 Motorcycle Ride 3:11
A3 Medieval Dancing 3:04
A4 School For Robots 2:21
A5 Mudra 6:12
A6 Accents 2:41
A7 Rubberbands 2:16
B1 The Saucer's Apprentice 6:24
B2 Encore 2:18
B3 Four Seasons 5:21
B4 Tools 3:51
B5 Nothing To Do 1:13

From Dusty Groove:
Insane – totally insane! This gem of a record was recorded in 1968 by early electronic musician Bruce Haack and frequent collaborator Esther Nelson – done after a series of earlier records aimed at children, but really taking off here with an incredibly trippy approach! The name of the game is "imagination" – and Haack provides a lot of strange effects and electronics while co-narrating a series of stories and songs with Nelson – very weird little snippets that could certainly encourage imagination, or scare the kids so much that they might never imagine anything else again! Tunes include "Motorcycle Ride", "School For Robots", "The Saucer's Apprentice", "Tools", "Nothing To Do", and "Rubberbands".

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