Alhambra (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Alhambra
Type = EP
Artist = 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
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:nbkcu3yjandk link]

Last album = "The Edges of Twilight"
(1995)
This album = "Alhambra"
(1996)
Next album = "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.

Track listing

All songs written by The Tea Party, except "Time" written by Jeff Martin and Roy Harper.
# "The Grand Bazaar" – 3:55
# "Inanna (acoustic version)" – 3:20
# "Silence (acoustic version)" – 3:57
# "Turn the Lamp Down (acoustic version)" – 4:58
# "Time" – 6:58
# "Sister Awake Remix" – 4:37

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

Notes

*Alhambra is the Moorish palace in Granada, Spain.