The Edges of Twilight

Infobox Album |
Name = The Edges of Twilight
Type = Album
Artist = The Tea Party


Released = March 23, 1995 (Canada)
Recorded = A&M Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre = Rock
Length = 67:21
Label = EMI Music Canada
Chrysalis Records
Producer = Jeff Martin and Ed Stasium
Reviews = *"Q" Rating|3|5 [http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=60128305&loc=109&sp=1&queryType=music June 1995 (Pg. 128)]
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kcx1z82aoyvj link]

Last album = "Splendor Solis"
(1993)
This album = "The Edges of Twilight"
(1995)
Next album = "Alhambra "
(1996)Singles
Name = The Edges of Twilight
Type = studio
single 1 = Fire in the Head
single 1 date = 1995
single 2 = The Bazaar
single 2 date = 1995
single 3 = Shadows on the Mountainside
single 3 date = 1995
single 4 = Sister Awake
single 4 date = 1996

"The Edges of Twilight" (1995) is the third album by The Tea Party. The album features many instruments from around the world, giving various songs a strong world music flavour in addition to the rock/blues influences evident in the band's earlier releases. Jeff Burrows explained that "basically we wanted to expand upon the initial idea that we tried on "Splendor Solis", which was trying to incorporate different styles of world music into our music. So with this album we became more familiar with many more instruments. In our minds we were trying to do for a rock album what Peter Gabriel does to pop by infusing various cultures, percussion and exotic sounds into it."Jeff Burrows, High Tea April 1995, Beat, Melbourne, Australia.]

"The Edges of Twilight" helped propel the band into mainstream success in their native Canada, where it reached double platinum status and earned the band several Juno nominations, including "Best Rock Album" and "Group of the Year".

The title of the album is taken from a chapter of the book "Fire in the Head", by American author Tom Cowan, which also inspired the name of the first track on the album.

The album also includes a hidden song which features a spoken word performance by folk legend Roy Harper, who is a friend of the band.

Featured on the cover is a statue by William Wetmore Story called "Angel of Grief".

Track listing

# "Fire in the Head" – 5:06
# "The Bazaar" – 3:42
# "Correspondences" – 7:28
# "The Badger" – 3:58
# "Silence" – 2:51
# "Sister Awake" – 5:43
# "Turn the Lamp down Low" – 5:16
# "Shadows on the Mountainside" – 3:39
# "Drawing down the Moon" – 5:26
# "Inanna" – 3:48
# "Coming Home" – 5:53
# "Walk with Me" – 14:20 (includes a spoken word piece by Roy Harper)

Credits

*Jeff Burrows - drums and percussion
*Stuart Chatwood - bass guitars
*Jeff Martin - guitars, vocals, production at A&M Studios (Los Angeles)
*Roy Harper - spoken word
*Ed Stasium - recording, production and mixing
*Paul Hamington - engineering
*Dave Collins - mastering at A&M Mastering (Los Angeles)
*Patrick Duffy - art direction and design
*Michael White - management

References

External links

* [http://www.lyricscrawler.com/artist/Tea-Party.html Lyrics]