Faces, Forms & Illusions

Infobox Album
Name = Faces, Forms, & Illusions
Type = Album
Longtype =
Artist = Delerium


Released = January 6, 1989
Recorded =
Genre = Ambient, Electronic
Length = 70:40
Label = Dossier Records
Producer = Bill Leeb
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Last album =
This album = "Faces, Forms, & Illusions" (1989)
Next album = "Morpheus" (1989)

"Faces, Forms & Illusions" is an album by the Canadian ambient/electronic music group Delerium that was released on January 6, 1989 on the Dossier label. (see 1989 in music). The album was re-issued in 1997 on Cleopatra Records with the bonus track 'Dark Star' added and 'Hidden Mask' removed. All songs written by Bill Leeb, except 'Monuments of Deceit' and 'Mecca', which were co-written by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch.

The front cover of the album shows a photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk setting himself alight and burning to death in Saigon, 1963. The people in the background are other monks and Vietnamese citizens who had gathered to watch the burning monk's suicide. A photo of the exact same event, although taken from a different angle, was used as the front cover of the debut album by Rage Against the Machine.

Track listing

# "Monuments of Deceit" – 7:36
# "Mecca" – 7:34
# "Inside the Chamber" – 6:28
# "Sword of Islam" – 8:13
# "New Dawn" – 7:42
# "Certain Trust" – 7:21
# "Hidden Mask" – 7:29
# "Strangeways" – 6:38
# "a. Subvert/ 9b. Wired Archives/ 9c. Siege of Atrocity" - 19.56
# "Dark Star" - 10:03