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Simply Saucer sign to Sonic Unyon; new CD Half Human, Half Live to be released early 2008.

The critically acclaimed Canadian rock group, Simply Saucer, return to the make their first new studio recording since 1978!

Half Human, Half Live is being recorded at Catharine North Studios, under the technical supervision of Stephen Foster.

As the title suggests, the disc will combine studio recordings with live recordings. The material will be drawn from the extensive - and apocryphal - catalogue of the group's history, most of which has never been properly recorded.

The artwork for the CD, is shown above. It is the work of J.D. King, a well-respected U.S artist. We are very pleased to be able to feature Mr King's work!

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APRIL 4TH HAMILTON, ON @ WEST SIDE CONCERT THEATRE

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L–R: Kevin Christoff, Don Cramer, Steve Park, Edgar Breau

The Current line-up:
Edgar Breau: gtr, vocals, harmonica
Kevin Christoff:
bass, bckg vocals
Dan Wintermans:
"Ping" guitar, theremin, tambourine,
Joe Csontos: drums
Steve Foster: gtr, bckg vcls.


SIMPLY SAUCER to release "Half Human Half Live" on March 25th

Legendary Hamilton, Ontario psych/punk combo SIMPLY SAUCER will release its first ever full-length album on March 25th in Canada through Sonic Unyon (April 29th in the USA). "Half Human Half Live" was recorded by the band last summer with band guitarist Steve Foster handling production duties.

"Half Human Half Live" is exactly as the title alludes to. The first six tracks are studio recordings of songs written by the band in their original incarnation that were never recorded. Included within these songs are 'Exit Plexit,' the first track ever written by the band in 1973, the all-acoustic track 'Dandelion Kingdom' and the nearly eleven minute epic 'Clearly Invisible,' the center point of the album. The final six tracks on the record were recorded live in front of a private audience on June 23rd, 2007 and features updated recordings of tracks from the Cyborgs Revisited reissue, including 'Mole Machine,' 'Illegal Bodies' and 'I Can Change My Mind' from their 1977 45 rpm single on Pig Records.

The "Cyborgs Revisited" album was originally released as a limited edition LP on Mole Recordings in 1989. This compilation contained studio recordings made with Bob Lanois on the first side and a live recording from June 1975 on the other. Sonic Unyon reissued the album in a remastered expanded format with nine-previously unreleased bonus tracks in the spring of 2003. Sonic Unyon/Get Back reissued a remastered vinyl version of the original LP, containing no bonus tracks, in the autumn of 2003. In 2007, "Cyborgs Revisited" was voted the 36th best Canadian album of all-time by more than 580 members of the music industry in the TOP 100 CANADIAN ALBUMS book, compiled by Bob Mersereau.

While the "Cyborgs Revisited" release has received a great amount of critical praise in the past five years since it was reissued on Sonic Unyon in 2003, in many ways "Half Human Half Live" is the first cohesive document of SIMPLY SAUCER as a band. These songs were all recorded at the same time, they all have the same players and they feel more cohesive than anything previously released. Instead it is more like a new band, getting ready for takeoff.

albums

     
     
Simply Saucer
Half Human, Half Live
 
SUNCD118 (CD)
Sonic Unyon
MARCH 25TH
  Simply Saucer
Cyborgs Revisited
iTUNES
SUNCD085 (CD)
Sonic Unyon
2003
   
press

"Cyborgs brims with thuddy UK socko-del rhythms, twisted gaugey string huzz, and heaving vocals 'n' arrangements fulla knowledge of the Velvets, the Troggs, Sun Ra and the Stooges. What more could you ask for?" - Byron Coley, SPIN

"A masterpiece of neo-punk/psych outness... a brain-baking feast of proto-punk repetition and overdriven interstellar guitar scrawl" **** - Andrew Carden, MOJO

"this spastic, electro-shocked amalgam of Velveteen trance rock, Stooges sleaze and unspooling early-Floydian weirdness is practically fizzing with unchecked energy and left field invention, and still sounds contemporary enough to be the work of some NME-endorsed hot young things from New York's new school" - Ben Rayner, TORONTO STAR
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From: Cyborgs Revisited
Bullet Proof Nothing.mp3
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Simply Saucer
Half Human, Half Live
Sonic Unyon
MARCH 25TH
  Simply Saucer
Cyborgs Revisited
SUNCD085 (CD)
Sonic Unyon
2003
   
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Please credit photos to: Stephanie Bell / Emerging
 
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