The Edges of Twilight (1995) is the third album by
The Tea Party. The album features many instruments from around the world, giving various songs a strong
world music flavour in addition to the
rock/
blues influences evident in the band's earlier releases.
Jeff Burrows explained that "basically we wanted to expand upon the initial idea that we tried on
Splendor Solis, which was trying to incorporate different styles of world music into our music. So with this album we became more familiar with many more instruments. In our minds we were trying to do for a rock album what
Peter Gabriel does to pop by infusing various cultures, percussion and exotic sounds into it."