Alan Parsons Project

2-Disk Japanese SHM-CD; Disk One is Original Mix with Bonus Tracks and Disk Two is the Remixed Version with Bonus Tracks.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination is an extremely mesmerizing aural journey through some of Edgar Allan Poe's most renowned works. With the use of synthesizers, drums, guitar, and even a glockenspiel, Parsons' shivering effects make way for an eerie excursion into Poe's well-known classics. On the album's 1987 remix, the instrumental "A Dream Within a Dream" has Orson Welles narrating in front of this wispy collaboration of guitars and keyboards (Welles also narrates "Fall of the House of Usher: Prelude"). The EMI vocoder is used throughout "The Raven" with the Westminster City School Boys Choir mixed in to add a distinct flair to its chamber-like sound. Parsons' expertise surrounds this album, from the slyness that prevails in "(The System Of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather" to the bodeful thumping of the drums that imitate a heartbeat on "The Tell-Tale Heart"…

"Eye in the Sky is the title of the sixth studio album by British progressive rock group The Alan Parsons Project and probably the most successful of her career. As in all his work the band continued its commercial focus of the songs and much of the sound production. We can say that the style is much more pop than progressive. The title track is the album that stands out and was one of those responsible for the success of the album. "