Art and Illusion (album)

Not to be confused with the book Art and Illusion by Ernst Gombrich.
Art & Illusion
Studio album by Twelfth Night
Released October 1984
Recorded Summer 1984
Genre Neo-progressive
Length 25:58
Label Music for Nations
Producer Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night chronology
Live and Let Live
(1984)		 Art & Illusion
(1984)		 Twelfth Night
(1986)

Art & Illusion is a studio mini-album released by UK neo-progressive band Twelfth Night in 1984.

Background

Art & Illusion marks the first Twelfth Night release with Andy Sears.

Originally planned as an 8-song full-length album, in the end a 5-song mini album was recorded and released.

A UK tour in October 1984 included all five songs in the set-list, along with another new song "Take a Look". "Blue Powder Monkey" had been performed live earlier in 1984. Both songs were demo'ed for Art and Illusion, but they were held back until the next album almost two years away. These demos, and a third, "Blondon Fair", are available on the CD reissue of Art and Illusion, thus recreating the full-length album as originally planned.

"C.R.A.B." had been performed for years as the second part of a piece called Entropy.

Track listing

All songs written by Twelfth Night.

  1. "Counterpoint" (5:57)
  2. "Art and Illusion" (3:51)
  3. "C.R.A.B." (4:34)
  4. "Kings and Queens" (5:43)
  5. "First New Day" (5:53)

2003 reissue

As above, plus:

  1. "Blue Powder Monkey" (7:22)
  2. "Blondon Fair" (5:34)
  3. "Take a Look" (11:59)

Demos recorded May 1984 at MCA Studios, Fulham, London.

  1. "Counterpoint" (5:59)
  2. "C.R.A.B." (3:56)
  3. "Kings and Queens" (5:52)
  4. "Take a Look" (4:31)

Demos recorded July 1984 at Broderick's, Reading.

Definitive Edition reissue (2010)

Disc One

  1. "Counterpoint" (5:57)
  2. "Art and Illusion" (3:51)
  3. "C.R.A.B." (4:34)
  4. "Kings And Queens" (5:43)
  5. "First New Day" (5:53)

Recorded 14–30 August 1984, Amazon Studios, Liverpool. Produced by Gil Norton. First released on Art & Illusion, October 1984. Music for Nations MFN 36.

  1. "Blue Powder Monkey" (7:22)
  2. "Blondon Fair" (5:34)
  3. "Take a Look" (11:59)

Recorded May 1984, Grannys Basement, Fulham. Produced by Twelfth Night. First released on Art & Illusion (CD reissue), 2003. Cyclops CYCL 132.

  1. "Counterpoint" (5:59)
  2. "C.R.A.B." (3:56)
  3. "Kings and Queens" (5:52)
  4. "Take a Look" (4:31)

Recorded July/August 1984, Matinee Studios, Reading. Produced by Twelfth Night. First released on Art & Illusion (CD reissue), 2003. Cyclops CYCL 132.

Disc Two

  1. "The Ceiling Speaks" (6:50) - University of Marburg, West Germany, 10 November 1984
  2. "Kings and Queens" (5:39) - Dominion Theatre, London, 6 November 1984
  3. "We Are Sane (11:05) - Sheffield University, 29 October 1984
  4. "Blondon Fair" (5:23) - Dominion Theatre, London, 6 November 1984
  5. "Creepshow" (11:38) - Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, 25 October 1984
  6. "Fact and Fiction" (3:44) - Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, 25 October 1984
  7. "First New Day" (5:47) - University of Marburg, West Germany, 10 November 1984
  8. "Take a Look" (12:14) - Dominion Theatre, London, 6 November 1984
  9. "Art & Illusion" (3:42) - Pavilion, Hemel Hempstead, 23 October 1984
  10. "East of Eden" (3:04) - City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, 31 October 1984
  11. "Sequences (Closing Section)" (2:59) - City Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, 31 October 1984
  12. "Love Song" (5:37) - Sheffield University, 29 October 1984

Tracks 6, 9, and 12 taken from the CD Night Vision: Art & Illusion Tour, released 2006. All others previously unreleased.

Other contemporary tracks

Three demos recorded in Reading in January 1985 have been released on Voices in the Night: "I Am", "South of the Wind" and "White Glass"

Personnel

References

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