''The Edges of Twilight'' is the third album by Canadian rock band The Tea Party, released in 1995. The album features many instruments from around the world, giving various songs a strong

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flavour in addition to the

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influences evident in the band's earlier releases.

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explained that "basically we wanted to expand upon the initial idea that we tried on ''

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'', 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

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does to pop by infusing various cultures, percussion and exotic sounds into it." ''The Edges of Twilight'' helped propel the band into mainstream success in their native

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, where it reached #11 on the Canadian album chart and

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status, and earned the band several

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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 the American author Tom Cowan; it also inspired the name of the first track on the album.

Composition

"The Bazaar" is a standard three-piece rock song with an introduction composed of harmonium and goblet drums.

described the song as fusing "the exotic with heavier rock side of the band better than any other song".Jeff Burrows, In Tangents The Tea Party Collection 2000, CD, EMI Music Canada, Mississauga. "Shadows on the Mountainside" is a folk inspired composition written for Gibson

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, mandolin and tabla drums. The band's first public performance of the song was in April 1994 on Australian radio station

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. The album includes a hidden song which features a

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performance by the

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legend Roy Harper, who is a friend of the band.

Release

On the cover is an american copy of a statue by

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called ''

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'', evidently damaged by an earthquake in 1906 and then restored in 1908. The original statue is located at the famous

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in Rome. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of ''The Edges of Twilight'', the Tea Party released a deluxe remastered CD, remastered LP, and a North American tour. The deluxe CD also includes a bonus disc that includes alternate, live, radio sessions and bonus audio and the booklet features the story of the album with new band interviews and previously unseen photos. A series of original artworks were commissioned by the band from Australian artist Robert Buratti which were released worldwide. Buratti also created a series of short films which were projected as a backdrop to the band while performing across Canada and Australia.

Track listing

Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc

# "Fire In The Head (Demo)" - 5:24 # "The Bazaar (Demo)" - 3:35 # "Walk With Me (Demo)" - 6:46 # "Sister Awake (Demo)" - 5:39 # "Drawing Down The Moon (Demo)" - 5:48 # "Turn The Lamp Down Low (Alternate Blues Version)" - 3:29 # "Correspondences (From The 'Alhambra' Tour Rehearsals)" - 6:47 # "Sarode Bazaar (Previously Unreleased)" - 3:57 # "Inanna (Acoustic Version)" - 3:18 # "Silence (Acoustic Version)" - 3:55 # "Shadows On The Mountainside (Triple J Session Live)" - 5:21 # "The Bazaar (BBC Live Version)" - 4:07 # "Sister Awake (Triple J Live At The Wireless)" - 8:01 # "Time" - 6:59 # "Turn The Lamp Down Low (BBC Live Version)" - 6:31

Personnel

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

Charts

Sales

Sister Awake

"Sister Awake" is a song by

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band The Tea Party. It was released as a

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in Canada.the edges of twilight - sister awake + 1 - Canad
The Tea Party a visual discography
Accessed 14 April 2007 The music video was shot in Toronto and images from the video illustrate the booklet of the album ''

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'' and its multimedia component. The song was remixed by

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for ''Alhambra''. "Sister Awake" is a standard three-piece rock composition acoustically based on

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and

goblet drums The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; / Romanized: ) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet-shaped body. It is ...

. The song used 58 recording tracks by synching up three machines.Stuart Chatwood, In Tangents The Tea Party Collection 2000, CD, EMI Music Canada, Mississauga. A semi-acoustic version with keyboard, goblet drums, harmonium and

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was recorded in August 1995 at Studio Morin Heights (

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) for ''

'' and appears on the European '' Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000'' album.

Track listing

#"Sister Awake (album version)" #"Sister Awake (edited)"

Sister Awake Remix

"Sister Awake Remix" is a song by

band The Tea Party. It was released as a

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The Tea Party a visual discography
Accessed 16 April 2007 The song was remixed by

at the Warehouse Studio, Vancouver for

. The original version appears on The Edges of Twilight.

Track listing

#"Sister Awake (Remixed)"

References

External links

Sister Awake music video
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edges Of Twilight, The 1995 albums The Tea Party (band) albums Albums produced by Ed Stasium Albums recorded at A&M Studios