Alhambra (album)

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Alhambra
EP by The Tea Party
Released	March 1996 (Canada) 18 November 1996 (Australia)
Recorded	December 1994 at A&M Studios (Los Angeles) and August 1995 at Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
Genre	Rock
Length	27:50
Label	EMI Music Canada
Producer	Jeff Martin and Ed Stasium
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
The Tea Party chronology
The Edges of Twilight (1995) Alhambra (1996) Transmission (1997)

Alhambra (1996) is an EP by The Tea Party and was used as a bridge between The Edges of Twilight and Transmission. It features four intricately re-worked acoustic songs from The Edges of Twilight and two others; the first a song entitled "Time" with Roy Harper on vocals, the second a remix of Sister Awake by Rhys Fulber.

Alhambra is an Enhanced CD and includes multimedia that the band used as a way to explain themselves, inviting fans to explore the details of exotic instruments, song meanings and video & audio clips.

The first song on the EP is "The Grand Bazaar", which was recorded during The Edges of Twilight sessions in December 1994 at A&M Studios (Los Angeles). The acoustic songs and "Time" were recorded in August 1995 at Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights), with more acoustic versions of songs from these sessions appearing as B-sides ("The River", "Save Me" and "Sister Awake") on later singles and the European Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000 album.

EMI Music Canada re-issued Alhambra on 5 March 2002 with the multimedia CD-ROM component updated to work correctly on the Windows XP Operating System. The EP was also long out of stock in Canada.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by The Tea Party, except "Time" written by Jeff Martin and Roy Harper.

1. "The Grand Bazaar" – 3:55
2. "Inanna (acoustic version)" – 3:20
3. "Silence (acoustic version)" – 3:57
4. "Turn the Lamp Down (acoustic version)" – 4:58
5. "Time" – 6:58
6. "Sister Awake Remix" – 4:37

[edit] Credits

• Jeff Burrows - drums and percussion
• Stuart Chatwood - bass guitars
• Jeff Martin - guitars, vocals, production at A&M Studios
• Roy Harper - vocals on "Time"
• Rhys Fulber - additional production and keyboard programming on "Sister Awake Remix"
• Susann Richter - background vocals on "Sister Awake Remix"
• Ed Stasium - recording, production and mixing
• Paul Hamington - engineering
• Simon Pressey - engineering and mixing on "Inanna (acoustic version)", "Silence (acoustic version)", "Turn the Lamp Down (acoustic version)" at Studio Morin Heights
• Greg Reely - mixing on on "Sister Awake Remix" at Warehouse Studio, Vancouver
• Dave Collins - mastering at A&M Mastering (Los Angeles)
• Verve Graphic Design Consultants Inc. (Toronto) - design
• Simone Orlando - front & back cover image
• Ray Danniels and Steve Hoffman (SRO Management) - management

[edit] Notes

• Alhambra is the Moorish palace in Granada, Spain.

v • d • e The Tea Party Jeff Burrows | Stuart Chatwood | Jeff Martin Albums The Tea Party | Splendor Solis | The Edges of Twilight | Alhambra | Transmission | Triptych | The Interzone Mantras | Seven Circles Live albums Live at the Enmore Theatre Compilations Tangents: The Tea Party Collection Demos Capitol Records demo Singles "The River" | "Save Me" | "A Certain Slant of Light" | "In This Time" | "Midsummer Day" | "Fire in the Head" | "The Bazaar" | "Shadows on the Mountainside" | "Sister Awake" | "Sister Awake Remix" | "Temptation" | "Babylon" | "Release" | "Psychopomp" | "Gyroscope" | "Heaven Coming down" | "The Messenger" | "Touch" | "These Living Arms" | "Gone" | "Walking Wounded" | "Lullaby" | "Angels" | "Soulbreaking" | "Writing's on the Wall" | "Stargazer" | "Oceans" DVDs Illuminations | Live: Intimate & Interactive Related bands The Art Decay Related albums and DVDs Live in Brisbane 2006 | Live in Dublin | Live at the Enmore Theatre (DVD)