"This Old Man" by Bruce Haack

Shimmy-2029 (Release Date: March 14, 2025) 

Originally released on vinyl in 1975 by Dimension 5, Bruce's own label. This Re-Issue is the first time 'This Old Man' has been released on vinyl since then! 

Now, sounding even more brilliant than ever - all the tracks have been Re-Mastered by Kramer. 

Text from the Original Release: ‘Created and Totally Performed by Bruce Haack’

‘An Electronic Musical-Poetic treat for Elementary and High School-People revealing more wonders of our Earth Ship.’

'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.'

The 1st pressing is limited to 111 hand-numbered LPs on 150gm black vinyl, available exclusively through the Shimmy-Shop & on Bandcamp. 

An 'Electro-Clear' vinyl pressing is also available. 

A download link for the LP is included with each Vinyl purchase.

Welcome to the World of Bruce Haack.  Not just for ‘school age’ people.

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

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  interests in science, the wonders of childhood, and the human condition, woven into a musical tapestry that shimmers like an exploding sun.

This is the second Bruce Haack LP that Shimmy-Disc has re-released. The first was “Captain Entropy” (Shimmy-2019), in August 2023.