''The Sicilian Defence'' is the twelfth studio album by

The Alan Parsons Project The Alan Parsons Project was a British rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose core membership consisted of producer, audio engineer, musician and composer Alan Parsons and singer, songwriter and pianist Eric Woolfson. They were accompan ...

, released in 2014. It was named after the Sicilian Defence, a famous chess opening. This was the final Alan Parsons Project studio album to be released, 24 years after the split of the band, and it has so far only been available as part of the eleven-CD box set ''The Complete Albums Collection'' (which omits the original mix of ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' and all bonus tracks from previous expanded reissues). Originally recorded in 1979, it was never actually intended for release, but was sent to the band's label, Arista, as a sort of "chess move" as they did not feel they were given adequate time to make a new album while

Eric Woolfson Eric Norman Woolfson (18 March 1945 – 2 December 2009) was a Scottish songwriter, lyricist, vocalist, executive producer, pianist, and co-creator of The Alan Parsons Project. Together with Parsons they sold over 50 million albums worldwide. ...

negotiated their contract, but were under obligation to deliver one anyway. As such, this album consists of incomplete sketches that were never fleshed out into proper songs, and whose titles follow a particular variation of the chess opening. was the first track to be released from the album, when a shortened version of it entitled "Elsie's Theme" was included on the 2008 remastered edition of ''

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''. It is thus the only track to be given a formal title unrelated to a chess move.

Quotes

Track listing

All songs composed by

. #"P-K4" (Instrumental) – 5:00 #"P-QB4" (Instrumental) – 6:22 #"Kt-KB3" (Instrumental) – 3:07 #"...Kt-QB3" (Instrumental) – 1:15 #"P-Q4" (Instrumental) – 3:54 #"PxP" (Instrumental) – 3:27 #"KtxP" (Instrumental) – 4:01 #"Kt-B3" (Instrumental) – 0:53 #"Kt-QB3" (Instrumental) – 8:16 #"P-Q3" (Instrumental) – 3:30

Personnel

*Alan Parsons – keyboards, synthesizer, programming, producer, engineer *Eric Woolfson – piano

Notes

References

External links

*https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6028786/alan-parsons-project-sicilian-defence-song-premiere *https://web.archive.org/web/20110716215331/http://www.the-alan-parsons-project.com/history-read-more.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Sicilian Defence, The The Alan Parsons Project albums Concept albums 2014 albums Albums produced by Alan Parsons Arista Records albums