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Artist:	SIMPLY SAUCER
Title:	Half Human / Half Live
Label:	SONIC UNYON (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SUN 118CD

"Simply Saucer is not a band of our time. Matter of fact, it isn't a band of any time, as the Saucer travels by its own clock. The band's first album Cyborgs Revisited was originally released on LP more than a decade after the original Simply Saucer last took flight. Recorded in 1974 and 1975, the album received an incredible amount of posthumous praise from both sides of the Atlantic, including both Alternative Press and Forced Exposure naming the album the Greatest Canadian Album ever released. Recently deciding to start playing electric guitar for the first time since 1979, original Saucer member Edgar Breau, along with longtime bassist Kevin Christoff, decided to bring the band back. Debuting in late December 2006, Simply Saucer wowed a hometown crowd with a sold out show that demonstrated this was a band with a lot left to give -- and then did the same in early 2007 for crowds in Montreal and Toronto too. Since the band had never recorded a proper album during their original time together -- the material on Cyborgs Revisited comes from demo recordings and a live concert -- the first thing the band wanted to do was put out an album. While there were some 18 songs on the Cyborgs reissue, that amounted to only a fraction of the material the band had written and was performing regularly during the 1970s. Most of their repertoire had remained unreleased, unrecorded and undiscovered, at least until now. Half Human, Half Live is exactly as the title describes it. The first six tracks were recorded at Hamilton's Catherine North studios in the summer of 2006, while the second half was recorded live in concert in front of a specially invited studio audience on a very hot, sweaty summer night. Of the tracks included within, all of them are songs that were written by the band in the seventies. These are not newly written reunion songs, instead the band had decided to inform the world of other secrets that very few got to see them play live back in the day. Things kick off with 'Exit Plexit,' one of the very first Saucer tracks first written back in 1973. Also making their first appearance are the songs 'Almost Ready Betty,' 'Dandelion Kingdom' and the album's centerpiece, the twelve-plus minutes of psychedelic lushness that is 'Clearly Invisible.' Instead of being a band happy to sit on their laurels or history, the 2008 version of Simply Saucer proves itself to be as viable and entertaining as the band that did the Cyborgs Revisited album, except for now they are a live, working band that's here for you to discover one more time." Includes 20-page booklet.

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