Anthony Phillips was a founder member of the
British Rock band Genesis.
The band recorded two singles and the album From Genesis To Revelation
before leaving Decca and signing with Charisma to record the Trespass album.
Anthony recorded the albums From Genesis To Revelation and Trespass and also
performed a great many gigs before deciding to leave the band following a
particularly bad bout of stage fright and also suffering a debilitating bout
of bronchial pneumonia.
It was between the years 1970 and the release of his debut album The Geese
And The Ghost in 1977 that many fans lost sight of Anthony Phillips. In
actual fact much of the material that would make up the Geese And The Ghost
would be written during this time.
The Geese and the Ghost was originally released in 1977 and features
performances from Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins alongside Anthony.
The 30th anniversary of the original release of Ant's solo debut album is
marked with the re-issue of the album as an expanded 2 CD version. The album
itself has been expertly re-mastered from the original master tapes by
recording engineer and co-producer of the original album Simon Heyworth. The
location of the original master tapes brought to light the previously
unheard Lute’s Chorus Reprise section of Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times
which was excised from track at the final stage of completing the album as
it was felt at the time that the track was a little too long. This has now
been restored to its rightful place on the album in order that the track can
be heard for the first time in the originally intended form.
The extra CD features a fascinating "behind the
scenes" view of the initial stages of the recording of the album with the
basic tracks of Ant and Mike Rutherford's original acoustic guitar parts for
The Geese & The Ghost (Parts One & Two), Which Way The Wind Blows and Henry:
Portraits From Tudor Times being mixed for the first time in isolation from
the later overdubs that were added to the album. |
ANTHONY PHILLIPS
The Geese &
The Ghost
Disc 1
1. Wind - Tales
2. Which Way The Wind Blows
3. Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times(i) Fanfare (ii) Lutes' Chorus (iii)
Misty Battlements (iv) Lutes' Chorus Reprise
4. (v) Henry Goes to War (vi) Death of a Knight (vii) Triumphant Return
5. God if I Saw Her Now
6. Chinese Mushroom Cloud
7. The Geese and the Ghost - Part i, Part ii
8. Collections
9. Sleepfall: The Geese Fly West
Disc 2
1.
Master of Time (demo)
2. Title Inspiration
3. The Geese and the Ghost - Part One (basic track)
4. Collections link
5. Which Way the Wind Blows
6. Silver Song (basic track)
7. Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times (basic track)(i) Fanfare (ii) Lute's
Chorus(iii) Lute's Chorus Reprise (iv) Misty Battlements
8. Collections (demo)
9. The Geese & The Ghost - Part Two(basic track)
10. 10 God If I Saw Her Now (basic track)
11. 11 Sleepfall (basic track)
12. 12 Silver Song (unreleased single version, 1973)
Complimenting these unique versions of the
original tracks is the only unreleased track from the original sessions (a
planned new version of the co-written Silver Song that never progressed
beyond this initial recording), Ant's original demo of Collections (which
was recorded for Charisma Records boss Tony Stratton-Smith in the Spring
of 1974) and the original basic instrumental tracks of God If I Saw Her
Now and Sleepfall. Last but by no means least the final track is the
unreleased single version of Silver Song, recorded in November 1973 by Ant
together with Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins which receives it's first
official release.
The re-issue will also feature new liner notes with a detailed account of
the making of the album including contributions from John Hackett,
co-producer Simon Heyworth and cover artist Peter Cross together with
Ant's own memories of the album. Rosanna Arquette also shares her memories
of one of her favourite tracks on the album.
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