The Tea Party - Shadows on the Mountainside

[RufusMcCloud]

This whole album reminds me of doing acid and smoking pot in high school. Warm summer nights.

[BlackBoardMovies]

Most of the videos for the album: Edges Of Twilight are creepy, but in my opinion, EOT is THE BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME!

[BlackBoardMovies]

My favorite song by them!!! AWESOME AND POETIC!!!!

[Endisnigh666]

Awesomeness!! This is my fav from EOT. Such beauty in a time of ugliness the 90's they were. These guys were a spiritual rarity I"m glad i got to see them perform live.

[Endisnigh666]

Awesomeness!! This is my fav from EOT. Such beauty in a time of ugliness the 90's they were. These guys were a spiritual rarity I"m glad i got to see them perform live.

[Endisnigh666]

Awesomeness!!

[Endisnigh666]

I love this magical sonic rant.

[Jizyon]

Art ! Pure art !!!!



[autumnduskx]

This is art.

[SpiritBearTotem]

if you cant feel it, well den, you aren't a Celt!!!

[SpiritBearTotem]

this is real g shit .ponder the soul of IT!!!

[IFandORwe]

Do you enjoy BLISS? If YOU DO, HERE IS SOME BLISS for YOU! Respect!

[S3K7OR555]

Qué canción tan hermosa

[rayzorsedge77]

I wonder what happened to these guys, I know there was a new band or something, but then the video channels always did their best to not play them cause they don't like the howdy-dewdy routine

[HallowedHoly]

jeff martin did solo work then formed "the armada"

[zeus64700]

bloody amazing they are! ...were

[TeDuaMalakie]

i duno why they always remind me with Radiohead band .. maybe same oddity .

[grodriguez171]

daviddowns81,i couldnt agree with you much more...i dont think they did that much touring in america...have you heard anything from martin's new band the armada?....its not pretty good

[daviddowns81]

my fave canadian band.. I remember seeing them in '98 on the Edgefest tour and being entranced by them, they were simply amazing.

It is too bad that people have a tendency to disregard them as no more than a clone of The Doors or Led Zeppelin, while I admit the similarities are there, they still manage to come across as there own entity, and have created some great albums.. "edges Of Twiilight" being my personal fave :D

[ZarathustrasCrown]

@daviddowns81 Honestly I'd, without any hesitation, put Edges up there with some of the greats like Led Zeppelin 4 or Paranoid...it's one of the unsung great albums of music. just imho mind you :)

[Nyarl3]

The Tea Party makes such relaxing music. I love to listen to them while I study; I just calm right down, and focus on my work.

[grodriguez171]

this is the tea party's black mountain side ...but with vocals

[doolandartt]

Yes. Of course. How unoriginal.

[AnalDan]

Incredible band, love their mystique...all such good musicians also!!!

[deevinewizzdumb]

so beautiful .

[kerwoodbug]

the best. sooo smoooth

[gutwasser]

Mein Sohn heute 15...Musiker ist als Baby zur ersten Scheibe von Tea Party jeden Abend eingeschlafen....

[taxthyass]

vee, just read your 2/7 comment, thankx, keep in touch.(this song gets better w/ age)

[taxthyass]

yo cat, dontcha think it fell off after transmission a bit? Tt, mantra, cmon.

[veedub87]

Definitely. There are a few great songs after Tx, but Edges and Tx were their peak,  I'd have to say.

[taxthyass]

vee, any info on JM/Armada touring? I chk'd myspace and other areas, no luck, but, one posted comment on u indicated upcoming tour???

[veedub87]

They're playing, but I haven't really been paying attention as to where. It's nowhere near me, so it hasn't been on my radar.

[KingUponMain]

all tea party rocked...minus alot of that crap on seven circles, but sad part its still better than most of the garbage out there today

[MAWL02]

When I went to the Transmissions concert they played Temptation to open and rocked, then Jeff Martin goes "And this one is for all the ladies in the audience..." and I forget the rest of the show, honestly. No house shaking "Sun's Going Down" , no crazy renditions of River or Sister Awake(with the bow on the guitar) or anything like they used to do. They turned into complete sellouts so they could get more air-time on Much Music. I stopped listening to them I was so disappointed.

[ZarathustrasCrown]

@taxthyass Mantra I actually quite liked...Triptych was a bit hit and miss, some damn killer songs (Halcyon Days for example is one of my all time favorite TP songs ever)...but I thought they actually did a hell of a job recapturing their older sound with Interzone, it seemed like a perfect middle ground between Edges and Transmission. Seven Circles was a major disappointment after that...it has it's strong points (Luxuria for example, kicks ass) but never lived up to Interzone's promise

[traino123]

Song is cool.

[SabuPtolemy]

Jeff Martin is as close to a shaman we have in modern day rock music.

'The Edges of Twilight' is genius.

[ravenmalik]

wow! who is this guy?! he is good. i never herd this kind of style before. strange. and poetic.

[veedub87]

The singer/guitarist is Jeff Martin. The Tea Party broke up a couple of years ago. Jeff is solo right now with a band called The Armada. Check out The Tea Party's discography from 1993 thru 1997. It's great stuff. They were more popular in Canada and Australia than anywhere (they're Canadian). Truly a hugely underrated band that flew under the radar for a long time.

[ZarathustrasCrown]

@veedub87 I don't know if I'd say "under the radar", at least where I grew up (city called Brantford about 4 or 5 hours away from Ottawa Ontario) they were HUGE during their first few albums. Edges was a radio staple for years, I still hear The Bazaar and Sister Awake on there every now and again. They never really broke the US market, but then Jeff Martin once said "I've lived in the US, if I heard us being played on US radio I'd be wondering 'what the hell are we doing wrong?'"

[HallowedHoly]

@ravenmalik One of Canada's premiere musical artists... He wrote all of The Tea Party's music, composed the lyrics, produced and was the sole guitarist, using many, many stringed instruments in their recordings.

And, as veedub87 stated...

[koleola]

never heard of the tea party before, but this song is really good!

[HallowedHoly]

they have a fantastic discography -- along with Jeff Martin's solo material & his new band " The Armada ", which has just released its first album this month, which is similar to the Tea Party, but with even more intricate production.

[jftuff]

There is no indication of the danger that exists

[cathandfint]

Love everything they've done, but the slower stuff in particular - they came down to New Zealand several times and I caught them twice - still the best thing I've ever seen live, and I'm a live music addict. Met them in 97 and offered to add harmonies to this, In this time and Watching what the rain blows in - Jeff was keen, but i never heard from him ;)

[WoIfshead]

Fantastic song from a fantastic album. I love the differences and eastern influence in their music.

[LonerFriends]

The Tea Party are awesome. Have you heard their self-titled album before?

[veedub87]

Indeed I have.

[WieseStudios]

Might be a long shot but do you guys have it and are willing to share?

[HallowedHoly]

The only self-titled album they have is their indie album which came out immediately before Splendor Solis, alot of which became Splendor Solis.

[AltronHGX]

Absolutely the best Tea Party song ever written.

The live version in the related links is even better because of the extra verse. I'll never understand why the omitted from the extra verse, cause if I could hear that lone melody between the extra verse in high quality, I'd probably cry

[ZarathustrasCrown]

During the Edges era Jeff was really trying to distance himself from the whole "Zeppelin/Doors" comparison...the "strangest life I've known" part is almost verbatim an old Jim Morrison quote "this is the strangest life I've ever known"...I get the feeling he felt it was just a bit too similar and removed it. It's a shame, but I think that's what wound up happening...I have a radio performance with the extra lines from JJJ too

[AltronHGX]

Please post it, I would LOVE to hear it!

[gorecore]

I love this song so much.

Sadly, it reminds me of the times that I'd softly sing this to my ex-wife while we were falling asleep at night.

[valentin80]

Awesome song... they're one of my favorite band.

[Margarita54]

This is also my favorite song of them, remembers me at my holidays in greece '95 (cause of that balalaika thing). I like more their first records (splendor solis; the edges of twighlight).

[hoddy34]

Yea, Edges and Splendor Solis are definitely the best. I really like the Alhambra EP as well.

[hoddy34]

Man, I couldn't agree more with your statement about Edges being the greatest album ever recorded. I live in Texas (no one knows who they are here, real shame!)and found out about Edges of Twilight from an Australian friend of mine 10 years ago. Been my fave album ever since!

[thefartingdonkey]

Dude...I live in Texas to. Fort Worth to be exact...Fucking kick-ass

[hoddy34]

Hats off to a fellow Texan teahead! You're probably the first person I've known of here that digs them that I didn't turn on to the band. Cheers!

[veedub87]

There were actually quite a few people in Austin and San Antonio that knew them a few years back. I saw them live at the 1st Ave Cabaret in Fargo, ND back in '97, and even that close to Canada, hardly anyone knew who they were. I knew of them back in '93 because a friend's Canadian stepbrother brought Splendor Solis down with him... the album put me in awe.

[hoddy34]

That was their Transmission tour, right? They actually passed through Dallas at Deep Ellum Live with a bunch of other bands. I almost went but changed my mind at the last minute. I've kicked myself in the ass for it ever since. And hell yea, Splendor Solis is greatness too. The only album of theirs I just didn't care for was the last one. After hearing that album, it didn't surprise me when I read that they broke up. I love JM's first solo album though, good stuff.

[veedub87]

Yep. Transmission. 10 Nov 1997 in Fargo(I was stationed in ND while in the Air Force). They also played Gibson's here in Tempe, AZ on the tour. There's a video posted on here from the Gibson's show. I met the band and manager in Fargo and they told us that they had played or were going to play Tempe when I mentioned I was from AZ.

[veedub87]

You missed a great show. There were only 70 or so people in the club when I saw them. They truly were gods live. Just incredible. Deep Ellum, eh? Funny... I've never been bugged for money by people in my life as much as every single time I've been down in Deep Ellum. I digress.. as for JM's Exile and the Kingdom, I don't care for it. TP's music is MUCH better quality, imho.

[hoddy34]

Yea I quit going to deep ellum 10 years ago or so. Someone was always asking for something, then people started getting shot. I think it's been cleaned up since, but I don't bother going anymore. Yea, I understand where you are coming from about JM's new album. And sure, it's not as good as Tea at their best, but it's still a hell of alot better than Seven Circles. Was only about 3 or 4 songs I really liked on that album, the rest was just, blah.

[veedub87]

7C was good when compared to other music... Just not 'Tea Party' good. As for JM, it seems most of his live shows are him playing TTP staples by himself or with substandard new bandmates. If he's happy, that's great - but I don't see the point in going solo to basically just play your old band's material 'unplugged'. Oh well.

[strandneuker]

this is so beautifull...

[demoniccow666]

my favorite tea party song...omg.

[devipus]

Thank you for this. It's my favorite song!