Faces, Forms & Illusions

Faces, Forms & Illusions
Studio album by Delerium
Released	January 6, 1989
Genre	Electronic, ambient
Length	39:47
Label	Dossier
Producer	Bill Leeb
Delerium chronology
Faces, Forms & Illusions (1989) Morpheus (1989)Morpheus1989

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Faces, Forms & Illusions is an album by the Canadian ambient/electronic music group Delerium that was released on January 6, 1989 on the Dossier label. The album was re-issued in 1997 on Cleopatra Records with the bonus track "Dark Star" added and "Hidden Mask" removed. All songs written by Bill Leeb, except "Monuments of Deceit" and "Mecca", which were co-written by Bill Leeb and Michael Balch.

"Hidden Mask" features samples from the song "Im Nin'alu" by Ofra Haza.

The front cover of the album shows a photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk setting himself alight and burning to death in Saigon, 1963.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Bill Leeb, except "Monuments of Deceit" and "Mecca" co-written by Michael Balch. 

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Monuments of Deceit"	4:19
2.	"Mecca"	4:22
3.	"Inside the Chamber"	6:20
4.	"Sword of Islam"	4:13

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"New Dawn"	4:50
2.	"Certain Trust"	5:12
3.	"Hidden Mask"	5:15
4.	"Strangeways"	5:16

CD issue
No.	Title	Length
9.	"Subvert/Wired Archives/Sieg of Atrocity"	19:58

Personnel

Delerium

• Bill Leeb – instruments, production, mixing
• Rhys Fulber – instruments (9)

Production and additional personnel

• Aimee C. – design
• Michael Balch – mixing
• Wide World Photos – photography

External links

• Faces, Forms And Illusions at Discogs (list of releases)