Art and Illusion

Infobox Album
Name = Art And Illusion
Type = studio album
Artist = Twelfth Night
Released =
Recorded = Summer 1984
Genre = Neo-progressive
Length = 25:58
Label = Music For Nations
Producer = Twelfth Night
Last album = "Live And Let Live"
This album = "Art And Illusion"
Next album = "Twelfth Night

"Art And Illusion" is a studio mini-album released by UK neo-progressive band Twelfth Night in 1984.

Details

Geoff Mann was replaced by Andy Sears in November 1983: Art And Illusion marks the first Twelfth Night release with Andy Sears.

Originally planned as an 8-song full-length album, in the end a 5-song mini album was recorded and released.

A UK tour in October 1984 included all five songs in the set-list, along with another new song Take A Look. Blue Powder Monkey had been performed live earlier in 1984. Both songs were demo'ed for Art and Illusion, but they were held back until the next album almost two years away. These demos, and a third, Blondon Fair, are available on the CD reissue of Art and Illusion, thus recreating the full-length album as originally planned.

C.R.A.B. had been performed for years as the second part of a piece called Entropy.

Track listing

All songs written by Twelfth Night.
# Counterpoint (5:57)
# Art And Illusion (3:51)
# C.R.A.B. (4:34)
# Kings And Queens (5:43)
# First New Day (5:53)

Reissue

As above, plus:

#

Blue Powder Monkey (7:22)
# Blondon Fair (5:34)
# Take A Look (11:59) Demos recorded May 1984 at MCA Studios, Fulham, London.

#

Counterpoint (5:59)
# C.R.A.B. (3:56)
# Kings And Queens (5:52)
# Take A Look (4:31)Demos recorded July 1984 at Broderick's, Reading.

Other Contemporary Tracks

Three demos recorded in Reading in January 1985 have been released on Voices In The Night: I Am, South Of The Wind and White Glass

Personnel

*Brian Devoil drums, percussion
*Clive Mitten bass, keyboards, classical guitar
*Andy Revell electric and acoustic guitar
*Rick Battersby keyboards
*Andy Sears vocals