Edgar Breau
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Edgar Breau is a musician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Hamilton-based band Simply Saucer in the 1970s, and has explored a solo career in recent years.
In 1974, Simply Saucer recorded a demo tape of music under the supervision of Robert Lanois which combined psychedelic, Krautrock and early punk influences (Syd Barrett, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop have often been cited as among the band's influences). The band broke up in 1979, and their recording was not released until 1989, when Bruce Mowat's Mole label issued it under the title Cyborgs Revisited. It quickly became a favourite of alternative-rock figures such as Julian Cope and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, and Breau soon became a cult hero among 1970s record collectors.
Cyborgs Revisited was first issued on CD in 1992, by the Chicago-based Fistpuppet label. A remastered edition, with additional material from the 1977-79 version of Simply Saucer, was issued in 2003 by Hamilton's Sonic Unyon label.
In 2004, Breau issued a solo album entitled Canadian Primitive. Recorded over a period of 14 years at Grant Avenue Studios in Hamilton, the album was generally described as folk-psychedelia. A follow-up solo recording, Patches of Blue is due out in 2007. On Sept. 16th, 2006, the 1978-79 line-up of the Saucer, featuring ex-Teenage Head guitarist, Steve "Sparky" Park, reunited for a six-song cameo appearance at the Corktown Tavern in Hamilton.
Park, however, is based in Montreal these days, and couldn't commit to a full-blown reunion concert. A new edition of Saucer was created featuring original bassist Kevin Christoff, guitarist Mike Daley (who had played on Canadian Primtive) , theremin/electronics/guitarist Dan Winterman, and drummer Joe Csontos. the new line-up debuted on Dec. 28th at The Casbah in hamilton, ON. Further live dates are pending, and new CD, "Half Human, Half Live" is in the works.
Breau campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1999 Ontario provincial election, somewhat improbably as a candidate of the right-wing, socially-conservative Family Coalition Party. He received 386 votes (1.16%) in Hamilton East, finishing well behind the winner, Dominic Agostino of the Liberal Party.
