The Disappearing Act

The Disappearing Act, 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.