The Sicilian Defence (album) explained

The Sicilian Defence
Type:studio
Artist:the Alan Parsons Project
Cover:The Sicilian Defence Cover.jpg
Alt:A variety of disorganized chess pieces in many colors are in the middle of the cover. Also in the middle are the band name and album title, in lower and uppercase respectively.
Recorded:1979
Label:Arista
Prev Title:Freudiana
Prev Year:1990

The Sicilian Defence is the twelfth and final studio album by The Alan Parsons Project, released in 2014. It was named after the Sicilian Defence, a famous chess opening. Having been released 24 years after the split of the band, it has so far only been available as part of the eleven-CD box set The Complete Albums Collection (which omits the original mix of Tales of Mystery and Imagination and all bonus tracks from previous expanded reissues). In December 2023, it was made available for download purchase and on streaming sites.[1] [2]

Originally recorded in 1979, it was never actually intended for release, but was sent to the band's label, Arista, as a sort of "chess move" as they did not feel they were given adequate time to make a new album while Eric Woolfson negotiated their contract, but were under obligation to deliver one anyway. As such, this album consists of incomplete sketches that were never fleshed out into proper songs, and whose titles describe the Classical Variation of the chess opening in descriptive notation. was the first track to be released from the album, when a shortened version of it entitled "Elsie's Theme" was included on the 2008 remastered edition of Eve. It is thus the only track to be given a formal title unrelated to a chess move.

Track listing

All songs composed by Eric Woolfson. All tracks are instrumental.

  1. "P-K4" – 5:00
  2. "P-QB4" – 6:22
  3. "Kt-KB3" – 3:07
  4. "...Kt-QB3" – 1:15
  5. "P-Q4" – 3:54
  6. "PxP" – 3:27
  7. "KtxP" – 4:01
  8. "Kt-B3" – 0:53
  9. "Kt-QB3" – 8:16
  10. "P-Q3" – 3:30

Personnel

External links

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Instagram . 2024-03-25 . www.instagram.com.