Transmission (album)

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Transmission
Studio album by The Tea Party
Released	June 1997
Recorded	Alkemical Studios (Montreal), NRG Studios (Los Angeles), Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
Genre	Rock
Length	49:34
Label	EMI (Canada) Atlantic (U.S.)
Producer(s)	Jeff Martin
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
The Tea Party chronology
Alhambra (1996)	Transmission (1997)	Triptych (1999)

Transmission (1997) is the fourth full length studio album recorded by Canadian band The Tea Party. The album sees the band expanding on the mix of rock, blues, and world music found in their previous albums by adding electronic instruments and recording techniques to their repertoire.

While still using several exotic instruments and maintaining the "eastern" influence in the recording, many songs also include samples, sequencers, and loops alongside the traditional acoustic instruments. The result is a harder, industrial sound, owing more to Nine Inch Nails than Led Zeppelin. The album is also the darkest release by the band, with lyrical references to the afterlife (see Psychopomp) as well as the dystopian works of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

Transmission continued to build on the momentum generated by The Edges of Twilight, reaching double platinum status in Canada and receiving a Juno nomination for Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year in 1998.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Hidden Tracks 2 Singles 3 Recording Personnel 4 Art Details 5 External links

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by The Tea Party (Martin/Burrows/Chatwood).

1. "Temptation" – 3:25
2. "Army Ants" – 3:33
3. "Psychopomp" – 5:17
4. "Gyroscope" – 2:56
5. "Alarum" – 4:58
6. "Release" – 4:05
7. "Transmission" – 5:17
8. "Babylon" – 2:50
9. "Pulse" – 4:09
10. "Emerald" – 4:51
11. "Aftermath" – 5:43

[edit] Hidden Tracks

Transmission contains two hidden pieces of music:

• An untitled piece consisting solely of electronically processed voices and sounds is located between tracks 6 and 7, lasting approximately 15 seconds
• An instrumental piece entitled "Embryo", lasting approximately 2 minutes, can be found between tracks 8 and 9

Rather than placing the music in separate tracks on the CD, or adding the pieces at the end of the preceding songs, the two hidden instrumentals can only be accessed by listening to the entire album, or skipping to either track 7 or 9 and using the "search" function on the player to rewind the track to -0.15 and -2.00 respectively.

[edit] Singles

• "Temptation"
• "Babylon"
• "Release"
  • All profits from the release of this single were donated to the White Ribbon Campaign
• "Psychopomp"

[edit] Recording Personnel

• Produced and recorded by: Jeff Martin
  • Recording Assistants: Don Hachey and Lee Moro
• Recorded at: Alkemical Studios (Montreal), NRG Studios (Los Angeles), Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
• Mixed by: Jeff Martin
  • Tracks 2, 3, and 6 mixed Jeff Martin and Adam Kasper
• Mixed at: NRG Studios (Los Angeles), Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
• Mastered by: Bob Ludwig
• Mastered at: Gateway Mastering (Portland)
  • Assistants: Don Hachey, Brian Virtue, and Robert Carranza

[edit] Art Details

• Cover Painting: "The Earth We Inherit" by Stuart Chatwood
  • Concept: Stuart Chatwood and James St. Laurent
• Art Design: Verve Graphic Design Consultants Inc.

[edit] External links

• Lyrics

The Tea Party
Jeff Martin | Stuart Chatwood | Jeff Burrows
Discography
Albums: The Tea Party | Splendor Solis | The Edges of Twilight | Alhambra | Transmission | Triptych | The Interzone Mantras | Seven Circles
Compilations and box-sets: Tangents: The Tea Party Collection
Singles: "The River" | "In this time" | "A certain slant of light" | "Save me" | "Midsummer Day" | "Shadows on the Mountainside" | "Fire in the head" | "The Bazaar" | "Sister Awake" | "Inanna" | "Sister Awake Remix" | "Temptation" | "Babylon" | "Release" | "Gyroscope" | "Psychopomp" | "Touch" | "Heaven coming down" | "A slight attack" | "The Messenger" | "These Living Arms" | "Gone" | "Walking Wounded" | "Lullaby" | "Angels" | "Soulbreaking" | "Writings on the wall" | "Stargazer"
Demos: Capitol Records demo 1990
Films
Illuminations (DVD)
Related articles
The Art Decay