Transmission (The Tea Party album)

Transmission
Studio album by The Tea Party
Released August 19, 1997
Recorded Alkemical Studios (Montreal), NRG Studios (Los Angeles), Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
Genre Rock
Length 49:34
Label EMI Music Canada
Atlantic Records
Producer Jeff Martin
The Tea Party chronology

Alhambra
(1996)		 Transmission
(1997)		 Triptych
(1999)
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Transmission is the fourth album recorded by the Canadian band The Tea Party, released in 1997. The band expanded 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. The album makes lyrical references to the afterlife ("Psychopomp"), the dystopian works of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Yevgeny Zamyatin ("Army Ants") and Giovanni Piranesi's 'Imaginary Prisons' ("Alarum").

Transmission continued to build on the momentum generated by The Edges of Twilight, reaching double platinum status in Canada and receiving a 1998 Juno nomination for "Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year". An edited version of the song "Temptation", as well as an instrumental version of "Babylon", can be found on the PlayStation game Road Rash 3D, from the same year.

Track listing

  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

Hidden tracks

Transmission contains two hidden pieces of music, both hidden in the pregap:

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