The Disappearing Act

The Disappearing Act, the evanescent “not-actually-a-band,” the occasionally reappearing recording project, has finally phoenixed once again, for the first time since their last album, Born to Say Goodbye landed nine years ago. The just-released An Illusion, the project’s third offering, is cause for celebration on several levels, not the least of which is that the long-established Disappearing duo of Dallas’s Salim Nourallah and El Paso’s Bob Blumenfeld is now augmented by another legendary Dallasite musician, multi-instrumentalist John Dufilho, he of so many musical incarnations that the mind reels: Deathray Davies, Clifffs, I Love Math, John Buffalo, Motorcade, the currently slumbering The Apples in Stereo, and more—that’s just the short list. The Disappearing Act’s An Illusion is a 12-song testament to the unique creative partnership of Blumenfeld, Nourallah and Dufilho, a jigsaw puzzling of songwriting and production that somehow gestalts into a sum greater than its parts. Like magic. An Illusion will appear September 27.