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Triptych (The Tea Party album)

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Released
  
June 8, 1999

Label
  
EMI Music Canada

Release date
  
8 June 1999

Length
  
51:25

Artist
  
The Tea Party

Producer
  
Jeff Martin

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Recorded
  
October 10, 1998 – March 3, 1999, at Alkemical Studios, Montreal, Studio Morin Heights, Morin-Heights, Quebec, and Metalworks Studios, Mississauga, ON

Triptych (1999)
  
Live at the Enmore Theatre (1999)

Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock, Alternative rock

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year

Similar
  
The Tea Party albums, Rock music albums

The tea party triptych full album


Triptych (1999) is The Tea Party's fifth album. It has the trio blending the major influences found on their previous albums: the earthy rock of Splendor Solis, the world music inspired arrangements of The Edges of Twilight, and the industrial edge of Transmission.

Contents

Triptych showed a band with a new confidence in songwriting. After the gloom of Transmission, which relied heavily on sampling and electronica, for Triptych the band wrote with both melody and content, while using electronica subtlety. This is evidenced by the Juno Award nominated single "Heaven Coming Down", the band's first number one single in Canada. The album itself reached #4 on the Canadian album chart, and received a Juno nomination for "Best Rock Album", before achieving double platinum sales in Canada.

In June 2000, the EMI labels in Europe released Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000, which included a bonus disc of eight unreleased songs.

Reception

In 2005, Triptych was ranked number 435 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.

Track listing

The unlisted 13th track is the sound of a clock chiming.

Special Tour Edition 2000 Bonus Disc

  1. "Psychopomp" (live) - 5:10
  2. "The River" (live) - 5:11
  3. "Save Me" (live) - 8:23
  4. "Lifeline" - 4:37
  5. "A Woman Like You" (Bert Jansch) - 3:46
  6. "Temptation" (Rhys Fulber remix) - 5:50
  7. "Sister Awake" (live) - 5:35
  8. "Waiting for a Sign" - 4:19

Singles

  • "Heaven Coming Down"
  • "The Messenger"
  • "Touch"
  • "These Living Arms"
  • "Gone"

    • Personnel

  • Jeff Martin – production and recording
  • Don Hachey – engineering
  • Jeff Martin and Nick Blagona – mixing at Metalworks Studios, (Mississauga)
  • Nick Blagona – mastering at Metalworks Mastering
  • Stuart Chatwood – cover art conception
  • Antonie Moonen – design
  • James St Laurent – cover photography
  • David Giammarco – special thanks

    • String quartet

  • "Gone"
  • Ligia Paquin - viola
  • François Pilon - violin
  • Benoit Loiselle - cello
  • Stéphanie Meyer - cello

    • Songs

    1Touch3:57
    2Underground3:41
    3Great Big Lie3:50

    References

    Triptych (The Tea Party album) Wikipedia
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