Artist: THE TEA PARTY
Album: TRANSMISSION (CD)

Release date: 1997
Media type: CD

Transmission (1997) is the fourth album recorded by Canadian band The Tea Party. The album sees the band expanding on the mix of rock, blues, and world music found in their previous albums by adding electronic instruments and recording techniques to their repertoire.

While still using several exotic instruments and maintaining the "eastern" influence in the recording, many songs also include samples, sequencers, and loops alongside the traditional acoustic instruments. The result is a harder, industrial sound, owing more to Nine Inch Nails than Led Zeppelin. The album is the angriest and most despairing release by the band, with lyrical references to the afterlife ("Psychopomp"), dystopian works of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Yevgeny Zamyatin ("Army Ants") and Giovanni Piranesi's 'Imaginary Prisons' ("Alarum").

Transmission continued to build on the momentum generated by The Edges of Twilight, reaching double platinum status in Canada and receiving a 1998 Juno nomination for "Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year".

TRACKLIST:

01 "Temptation" – 3:25
02 "Army Ants" – 3:33
03 "Psychopomp" – 5:17
04 "Gyroscope" – 2:56
05 "Alarum" – 4:58
06 "Release" – 4:05
07 "Transmission" – 5:17
08 "Babylon" – 2:50
09 "Pulse" – 4:09
10 "Emerald" – 4:51
11 "Aftermath" – 5:43

Hidden Tracks
Transmission contains two hidden pieces of music:

An untitled piece consisting solely of electronically processed voices and sounds is located between tracks 6 and 7, lasting approximately 15 seconds
An instrumental piece entitled "Embryo", lasting approximately 2 minutes, can be found between tracks 8 and 9

LINE-UP:

Jeff Burrows - drums and percussion
Stuart Chatwood - bass guitars
Jeff Martin - guitars, vocals, production at A&M Studios

Produced and recorded by: Jeff Martin
Recording Assistants: Don Hachey and Lee Moro
Recorded at: Alkemical Studios (Montreal), NRG Studios (Los Angeles), Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
Mixed by: Jeff Martin
Tracks 2, 3, and 6 mixed Jeff Martin and Adam Kasper
Mixed at: NRG Studios (Los Angeles), Studio Morin Heights (Morin Heights)
Mastered by: Bob Ludwig
Mastered at: Gateway Mastering (Portland)