Bruce - Sonder Somatic - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing including 12 page booklet. In 2016, after reissuing two Bruce Haack albums, Haackula and Electric Lucifer Book II, Telephone Explosion began speaking with Ted Pandel (Bruce's 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. We were shown test-pressings of The Electric Lucifer board mixes from his Columbia studio sessions, countless pieces of written music, a large number of personal photos, an invitation from Raymond Scott inviting Bruce to play his newly created Electronium instrument (now owned by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh), poems, press clippings, and, most importantly, a heavy-duty shelf containing 213 reel-to-reel tapes. All of the chosen material on The Preservation Tapes is unreleased, has only been heard by a handful of people and showcases a relatively unknown period in Bruce's musical career where Bruce was recording for Sparrow Records (who billed themselves as InchAmerica's best Christian music record tagInch). Bruce's signature Farad vocoder continues to feature prominently, but the lyrical content is decidedly more religious. The Bruce Haack archive is now resting in the Provincial Archives of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Album Tracks 1. When Mothers of Salem 2. Little Things 3. Untitled 1 4. Untitled 2 5. Untitled 3 6. Party Machine (Original Version) 7. Untitled 4 8. Jesus Loves Me 9. Untitled 5 10. God Be with You

Now this is more like it - Bruce and the E Street Band together again, writing, singing and playing great and memorable music. Lead single InchRadio NowhereInch begins with '80's Pop-Rock rhythms, and then moves into a rockin' beat reminiscent of Bruce back in the InchBorn in the USAInch period. You may even feel motivated to dig up those old school dance steps (a la Courtney Cox in that famous video) but try not to do it in the presence of the younger generation. Album Tracks 1. Radio Nowhere 2. You'll Be Comin' Down 3. Livin' in the Future 4. Your Own Worst Enemy 5. Gypsy Biker 6. Girls in Their Summer Clothes 7. I'll Work for Your Love 8. Magic 9. Last to Die 10. Long Walk Home 11. Devil's Arcade 12. Terry's Song

The first solo from Tom Flynn (Tapeworm, Fang, Duh, Star Pimp, Cornelius Asperger, Antler Family, Suboptics, Melvins, etc.). InchDo the ThudInch is a sludgy glob of blues-metal coughed up from the diseased lung of a depressed walrus, featuring Flynn's usual guitar strangulations. The flip side InchBalloons vs. GrenadesInch is a hyper new-wave robot attack, a political cry for help.Both tracks feature 1000 tons of drumming talent residing in the person of Dale Crover (Melvins), as well as additional vocals from Elma Marcelle Poulos (Star Pimp) in her long awaited return to the microphone.Tom Flynn - vocals, guitar, bass, pianoDale Crover - drumsElma Marcelle Poulos - vocals