1. a) Hurricane Man 2) Rock 'N' Roller
2. Roccococooler
3.
Eviction
4. Oh You Crazy Boy
5. Things On My Mind
6.
a) Exhibits From A New Museum b) Green Lights
7. a) Face From A Window b) Pretty c) Hi-Jack-Boogie d) Slow Down
8. Capers
Edgar Broughton : Lead Vocals, Electric Acoustic Guitar.
Victor Unitt : Electric Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Harmonica.
Art Grant : Bass Guitar.
Steve Broughton : Drums, Percussion, Vocals.
guests:
David Bedford : Piano.
Madeline Bell, Doris Troy, Lisa Strike : Backing Vocals.
The five albums The Edgar Broughton band recorded for EMI s progressive label, Harvest between 1969 and 1973 were full-on sonic attacks that took no prisoners.
They also contained some truly thoughtful and beautiful music of great originality.
By the time Oora was released The Edgar Broughton Band had been in Morgan studios in Willesden since mid-June recording material for what would become their final album for Harvest. Like their previous vinyl effort, sessions also took place in Olympic Studios in Barnes.
It was here that the band resumed their relationship with arranger David Bedford, who wrote and conducted orchestral arrangements for Hurricane Man / Rock n Roller and Things on My Mind.
The tracks Rock n Roller, Oh! You Crazy Boy, Things on My Mind, Exhibits From a New Museum and Face From a Window all featured the backing vocals of Doris Troy, Madeline Bell and Lisa Strike.
Oora was released in May 1973, in an elaborate sleeve designed by artist Barney Bubbles (noted for his work with fellow musical anarchists Hawkwind), the album was perhaps the most sophisticated of all The Edgar Broughton Band s releases for Harvest, notably on the track Face From a Window / Pretty / Hi-Jack Boogie / Slow Down.
The Edgar Broughton Band left EMI Records after the release of Oora and Victor Unitt departed the fold.
Formed in Warwick, England, the Edgar Broughton Band arrived on the London underground music scene in 1968.
Led by the Broughton brothers, vocalist/guitarist Edgar and drummer Steve, and fleshed out by bassist Arthur Grant and guitarist Victor Unitt (who also briefly served with the Pretty Things), they soon signed with the Harvest label, and issued their debut Wasa Wasa -- a collection of underground electric blues jams anchored by Edgar's Captain Beefheart-like vocals -- in late 1969. The Edgar Broughton Band returned in 1970 with Sing Brother Sing, which reached the U.K.
Top 20 and spawned a pair of minor hit singles, "Out Demons Out" and "Apache Drop-Out" (a fusion of Beefheart's "Dropout Boogie" and the Shadows' "Apache"). The group seemed poised for a major commercial breakthrough, but even as their brand of heavy rock was flourishing thanks to groups like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, the Broughton Band made an about-face, and their music became considerably more quiet and politically-charged. Their chart momentum stalled, and a 1971 self-titled effort failed to catch on.
After both 1972's Inside Out and 1973's Oora met a similar fate, the group left Harvest for NEMS. Legal wrangles locked them out of the studio for a number of months, but they finally resurfaced in 1975 -- minus Unitt, who'd been replaced by guitarist John Thomas -- with Bandages. A brief break-up followed, but in 1978 they returned with Live Hits Harder.
By the release of 1979's Parlez Vous English?, the group had expanded to a six-piece, and was now going under the name the Broughtons. The record was their last, but they continued on, eventually returning to the Edgar Broughton Band moniker and touring throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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