''The Edges of Twilight'' is the third album by Canadian rock band

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, released in 1995. The album features many instruments from around the world, giving various songs a strong world music flavour in addition to the

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/ blues influences evident in the band's earlier releases.

Jeff Burrows Jeffrey John Burrows (born August 19, 1968 in Windsor, Ontario) is the drummer and percussionist for Canadian rock band Crash Karma, and The Tea Party. Jeff Burrows begun drumming at eleven years of age and professionally since 1990 when he join ...

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 Peter Gabriel does to pop by infusing various cultures, percussion and exotic sounds into it."Jeff Burrows, High Tea April 1995, Beat, Melbourne, Australia. ''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, which also inspired the name of the first track on the album. 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. On the cover is a statue by

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called ''

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''. 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

Sister Awake

"Sister Awake" is a song by

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band

. It was released as a

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in Canada.the edges of twilight - sister awake + 1 - Canad
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Accessed 14 April 2007 The music video was shot in Toronto and images from the video illustrate the booklet of the album '' Alhambra'' and its multimedia component. The song was remixed by Rhys Fulber for ''Alhambra''. "Sister Awake" is a standard three-piece rock composition acoustically based on

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and

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. 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 '' Alhambra'' 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

. It was released as a

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The Tea Party a visual discography
Accessed 16 April 2007 The song was remixed by Rhys Fulber at the Warehouse Studio, Vancouver for Alhambra. The original version appears on The Edges of Twilight.

Track listing

#"Sister Awake (Remixed)"

References

External links

Sister Awake music video
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