Edgar Breau is a musician in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. He was a member of the Hamilton

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-based band Simply Saucer

Simply Saucer

Simply Saucer was a Canadian rock band, active in the 1970s. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, the band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Edgar Breau, keyboardist John LaPlante , bass guitarist Kevin Christoff and drummer Neil DeMarchant...

 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

Psychedelic

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, Krautrock

Krautrock

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...

 and early punk

Punk rock

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 influences (Syd Barrett

Syd Barrett

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, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

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 have been cited as among the band's influences). The band broke up in 1979, and their recording was not released until 1989 as Cyborgs Revisited

Cyborgs Revisited

Cyborgs Revisited is an album by Simply Saucer, released in 1989 on Mole Sound Records and Cargo Records. It was compiled from various archival recordings by the band, who had only ever released one 7" single before breaking up in 1979...

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Cyborgs Revisited was first issued on CD in 1992, by the Chicago

Chicago

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-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

Sonic Unyon

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 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

Folk music

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-psychedelia. On September 16, 2006, the 1978-79 line-up of the Saucer, featuring ex-Teenage Head

Teenage Head (band)

Teenage Head is a Canadian rock group from Hamilton, Ontario and was one of the most popular Canadian punk rock bands during the early 1980s....

 guitarist, Steve "Sparky" Park, reunited for a six-song cameo appearance at the Corktown Tavern in Hamilton.

A new edition of Saucer has been created featuring original bassist Kevin Christoff, guitarist Steve Foster, theremin/electronics/guitarist Dan Wintermans, and drummer Joe Csontos. A new album, Half Human, Half Live, was released in 2008.

Breau campaigned for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 in the 1999 Ontario provincial election

Ontario general election, 1999

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, as a candidate for the right-wing, socially-conservative Family Coalition Party

Family Coalition Party of Ontario

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. He received 386 votes (1.16%) in Hamilton East, finishing well behind the winner, Dominic Agostino

Dominic Agostino

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 of the Liberal Party

Ontario Liberal Party

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