The Electric Lucifer

by Bruce Haack

The Electric Lucifer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1970
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 36:47
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A truly bizarre, visionary concept album utilizing completely home-built synthesizers and vocoders, this electronic oddity explores themes of human conflict and divine redemption. The Canadian pioneer's eccentric juxtaposition of futuristic, abrasive noise with whimsical pop melodies cemented his legacy as a deeply influential outsider within the early electronic music sphere.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, conceptual, war, electronic, analog

Tracklist

  1. Electric To Me Turn (1:50)
  2. The Word (Narration) (0:30)
  3. Cherubic Hymn (2:20)
  4. Program Me (4:37)
  5. War (3:43)
  6. National Anthem To The Moon (2:38)
  7. Chant Of The Unborn (1:22)
  8. Incantation (3:15)
  9. Angel Child (1:01)
  10. Word Game (3:48)
  11. Song Of The Death Machine (3:00)
  12. Super Nova (5:22)
  13. Requiem (3:21)

Credits

  • Bruce Haack - primary artist, bass [additional played on moog], electronics, performer [all instruments], written-by, sleeve notes, vocals, narrator
  • Isadore Seltzer - artwork [cover art]
  • Andrew Kazdin - programmed by
  • Farad - vocals
  • Jon St. John - vocals
  • Tony Taylor - vocals
  • Chris Kachulis - vocals, illustration [insert], effects [vocals]
  • Gary Dersarkissian - voice [child]

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