This came out in 2000 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Sometimes, the best kids’ music isn’t only for kids. Bend an ear to this wonderfully bent offering from unsung Canadian composer Bruce Haack and see what I mean.
During the ’60s and ’70s, the Alberta-born, Juilliard-trained pianist created what must be the freakiest children’s albums in existence — something akin to what you’d get if Kraftwerk, The B-52’s and Frank Zappa were the musical directors of Sesame Street. This CD samples the quark, strangeness and charm of the late genius’s long-lost lo-fi works: 15 whimsical, educational ditties populated by eagles, army ants, robots and talking coconuts, set to an eclectic mish-mash of styles — from mutant bluegrass to James Brown funk — and played on Haack’s primitive, home-made arsenal of burping, squirting, squealing synths. It speaks to the kid in all of us.