3/14/2025

Shimmy-Disc Reissue Bruce Haack's This Old Man LP (1975), Shares "Thank You" Video | LP Reissue Today Out Today via Shimmy-Disc

Shimmy-Disc Reissue Bruce Haack's This Old Man LP (1975),
Shares "Thank You" Video via Big Takeover

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LP Reissue Today Out Today via Shimmy-Disc
Photo courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Alberta   
SAVE: Bruce Haack - This Old Man (Reissue)
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Bruce Haack - "Thank You"
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LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Bruce Haack - "This Old Man"
Stream | YouTube
"'Music' [is] a playfully driving instrumental paired with Haack’s clinical-yet-human spoken-word vocals explaining what the whole deal is with music"
FLOOD Magazine
Today, Shimmy-Disc shares the posthumous reissue of Bruce Haack's 1975 album This Old Man (Shimmy-2029). This is the second Bruce Haack LP that Shimmy-Disc has re-released, following Captain Entropy (Shimmy-2019), in August 2023. This reissue is the first time This Old Man has been released on vinyl since 1975, originally via the artist’s own label, Dimension 5. 

Bruce Haack (1931 - 1988) was a Canadian composer and electronic music pioneer whose creative output from the 1950s through the 1970s has been tragically under-appreciated.

Now considered to have been decades ahead of his time, Bruce Haack forged his music from glittering "new" computer landscapes of his own invention, long before the world was aware that such things were even possible. Welcome to his beautiful crucible of electronic sounds, wherein he illuminated his myriad of interests in science, the wonders of childhood, and the human condition, woven into a musical tapestry that shimmers like an exploding sun.

Alongside the vinyl reissue, Shimmy-Disc is sharing a video for the single, "Thank You." Bruce Haack’s greatest genius resided in his humble vision combined with a ferocious curiosity and idiosyncratic approach to musical experimentation. The directness of his prose and his ability to wear his heart on his sleeve is never more apparent than in this sweet apparition of a song. He means what he says, and he knows you know….who You are. 

The video for "Thank You" is out now. The full reissue of This Old Man is out today via Shimmy-Disc.
Bruce Haack - "Thank You"

This Old Man - TRACK LISTING

Side A

  1. This Old Man
  2. Bods
  3. Elizabeth Foster Goose
  4. Four Dances

Side B

  1. Wooden Bread
  2. Remember
  3. 17 Gifts For Free Children
  4. Shine On
  5. Thank You
Most of the music on this album was programmed on a polyphonic music computer built by Bruce Haack from surplus parts furnished by Ver-Tech Radio of Philadelphia. The machine was made in 18 months - without diagrams or plans (Bruce Haack has never studied electronics) and will produce up to twelve simultaneous voices in changing sequence via a memory holding over four-thousand bits of information. It will also compose at random.
Bruce Haack Links
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