 Original recording with bonus tracks + excellent quality live bonus CD!
Format: CD / Cat No: 201003 / Released: 26/04/2010
Track Listing: CD 1: 1. Counterpoint (5:57) / 2. Art & Illusion (3:51) / 3. C.R.A.B. (4:34) / 4. Kings & Queens (5:43) / 5. First New Day (5:53) / Bonus tracks: 6. Blue Powder Monkey (7:22) / 7. Blondon Fair (5:34) / 8. Take A Look (11:59) / 9. Counterpoint (alternate) (5:59) / 10. C.R.A.B. (alternate) (3:56) / 11. Kings & Queens (alternate) (5:52) / 12. Take A Look (alternate) (4:31)
CD 2: Art & Illusion Live Tour: 1. The Ceiling Speaks (6:50) / 2. Kings & Queens (5:38) / 3. We Are Sane (11:02) / 4. Blondon Fair (5:23) / 5. Creepshow (11:36) / 6. Fact And Fiction (3:44) / 7. First New Day (5:47) / 8. Take A Look (12:14) / 9. Art & Illusion (3:42 ) / 10. East Of Eden (3:03) / 11. Sequences (Closing Section) (2:59) / 12. Love Song (5:37)
More information: The second 'Definitive Edition' Twelfth Night release on the Festival Music label was Art & Illusion, the first album the band recorded with new vocalist Andy Sears, originally released on LP in October 1984.
As with 'Smiling at Grief', this is a 2 CD expanded version consisting of the original album, contemporary demos, and live material, including the first ever released version of Andy singing East of Eden.
This new expanded Definitive Edition of Art & Illusion includes the original 5-song mini-album, plus three different tracks demoed in May 1984 that would probably have appeared on a full-length album, and the four demos recorded in Reading just before the Amazon sessions.
It also has new artwork, which has been completely reworked / re-interpreted. All the lyrics have been lavishly illustrated with some stunning images, and there are brand new sleeve notes from Andy Sears, Mark Hughes and Andy Wild.
Disc 1, tracks 1-5 recorded 14-30 August 1984, Amazon Studios, Liverpool. Produced by Gil Norton. First released on Art & Illusion, October 1984. Music for Nations MFN 36. Tracks 6-8 recorded May 1984, Granny’s Basement, Fulham. Produced by Twelfth Night. First released on Art & Illusion (CD reissue), 2003. Cyclops CYCL 132. Tracks 9-12 recorded July/August 1984, Matinee Studios, Reading. Produced by Twelfth Night. First released on Art & Illusion (CD reissue), 2003. Cyclops CYCL 132.
Disc 2, tracks 1 & 7 recorded at the University of Marburg, West Germany, 10 November 1984. Tracks 2, 4 & 8 recorded at the Dominion Theatre, London, 6 November 1984. Tracks 3 & 12 recorded at Sheffield University, 29 October 1984. Tracks 5 & 6 recorded at Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, 25 October 1984. Track 9 recorded at the Pavilion, Hemel Hempstead, 23 October 1984. Tracks 10 & 11 at the City Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 31 October 1984. Tracks 6, 9 and 12 taken from the CD “Night Vision: Art & Illusion Tour”, released in 2006. All others previously unreleased.
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