Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Complete Oblivion

Legendary Hammond organist's entire Oblivion Express catalog reissued!

6LP box set contains the group's complete studio work for the first time!

Remastered from the original master tapes by Bill Smith at United Archiving

Features faithful reproductions of the original album jackets

Includes an extensive booklet featuring rare photos, posters and a lengthy interview with Brian Auger by Sarah Gregory

For more than 50 years, Brian Auger has been a musician's musician. Jazz pianist, bandleader, session man, Hammond B3 innovator, and key player in the rise of jazz/rock fusion, Auger has done it all and then some.

Now the legendary Hammond organist's entire Oblivion Express catalog is being reissued on vinyl by Soul Bank Music. It's the first time a complete box set of the group's studio work has been released. Oblivion Express rose from the ashes of Auger's 1960s combo The Trinity. Fusing R&B, jazz, soul and funk Auger's new group created a new breed of music that took the US and the UK by storm with its rhythmic jazz-funk that united black and white 1970s audiences.

The six studio albums that make up Complete Oblivion illustrate the group's diverse musical influences and progression, from the self-titled debut's heavy jazz-rock to the jazz fusion, Latin and disco-tinged Reinforcements; these changes were powered by the groups' changing lineups, which included guitarists Jim Mullen and Jack Mills, drummers Robbie McIntosh and Steve Ferrone, bassists Barry Dean and Clive Chaman and vocalist Alex Ligertwood. The Oblivion Express were highly rated by contemporary musicians — including Herbie Hancock — and have won a large and diverse group of admirers since. The albums included are: Brian Auger's Oblivion Express and A Better Land from 1971; Second Wind (1972); Closer To It! (1973); Straight Ahead (1974); and 1975's Reinforcements.

The six vinyl LPs have been remastered from the original studio master tapes by Bill Smith at United Archiving in Los Angeles, and the set features faithful reproductions of the original album sleeves by Jaffa at The Unknown, as well as an extensive booklet featuring rare photos, posters and a lengthy interview with Brian Auger by Sarah Gregory.

Brian Auger's Oblivion Express

Dragon Song

Total Eclipse

The Light

On The Road

The Sword

Oblivion Express

A Better Land

Dawn Of Another Day

Marai's Wedding

Trouble

Women Of The Seasons

Fill Your Head With Laughter

On Thinking It Over

Tomorrow City

All The Time There Is

A Better Land

Second Wind

Truth

Don't Look Away

Somebody Help Us

Freedom Jazz Dance

Just Me Just You

Second Wind

Closer To It!

Whenever You're Ready

Happiness Is Just Around The Bend

Light On The Path

Compared To What

Inner City Blues

Voices Of Other Times

Reinforcements

Brain Damage

Thoughts From Afar

Foolish Girl

The Big Yin

Plum

Something Out Of Nothing

Future Pilot

Straight Ahead

Beginning Again

Bumpin' On Sunset

Straight Ahead

Change

You'll Stay In My Heart

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