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BP362CD

Release date

17/10/2005

Format

2CD

Label

Blueprint

Anthony Phillips

Field Day

Disc 1

1. The Voyage Out 2. High Fives 3. Credo 4. Cerise 5. Runaway Horses 6. Home Sweet Home 7. Steps Retraced 8. Field Day 9. Nocturne 10. Tryst 11. Girl in The Gallery 12. Bel Ami 13. Concerto de Alvarez 14. Lifer 15. Chasing The Light 16. Parlour Suite I 17. Parlour Suite II 18. Parlour Suite III 19. Parlour Suite IV 20. Parlour Suite V 21. Parlour Suite VI 22. Parlour Suite VII 23. Parlour Suite VIII 24. Swoon 25. River of Life 26. Momento 27. Open Road 28. White Spider 29. Half Way Out

Disc 2

1. Weeping Willow 2. The Love Not Shared 3. Sojourn 4. Dawn Over The Field of Eternity 5. Fallen City 6. Rain on Sag Harbour 7. Days of Grace 8. Timeline 9. Oubliette 10. Tania 11. Babbling Brook 12. Shimmering Sharon 13. Tea Room in Del Fuego 14. Mudlark 15. Tearaway 16. Midnight Blue 17. Evening Shroud 18. Rapscallion 19. Beyond The Castle Walls 20. Forgotten Pathway 21. Fairy Ring 22. Largo D'Amour 23. Whippersnapper 24. Kissing Gate 25. To The Lighthouse 26. Driftwood 27. Festoons and Billows 28. Flotsam and Jetsam 29. Sunfish Shallows 30. Smart Alec 31. Prayer for Natalie 32. Out and Beyond

Anthony was a founder member of the British Rock band Genesis. Ant was born in December 1951 in London. In 1965 Ant found himself at Charterhouse Public School. It was here that he met up with Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks. It was also at Charterhouse that the pre Genesis band Anon got together and performed at a concert playing three Rolling Stones songs. At this time there were two bands at Charterhouse The Anon and The Garden Wall. In 1967 various factions of both bands joined forces and became one band. This band was to go on to become Genesis. During a school visit former old boy Jonathan King was given a tape recorded by this new band and liking what he heard the band was invited down to London for a meeting.
Following a series of meetings Jonathan King christened the band Genesis and offered them a recording contract. At this time the band included Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks and Chrissie Stewart who would be replaced by John Silver, who in turn would be replaced by John Mayhew. 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 with the band 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 and also the later Tarka album would be written during this time. During the next twenty-five years Anthony released a number of artistically satisfying albums such as Sides, Wise After The Event, 1984. Anthony's catalogue also includes a number of archive albums that feature music dating back to his time with Genesis. There is also the long running and hugely popular Private Parts And Pieces series of albums. All this in addition to Anthony's work composing music for film and television
Field Day is Anthony's latest studio album and is a double album featuring Anthony's beautiful acoustic playing. The album is sure to be popular with his large and dedicated fan base and as to be expected will also appeal to fans of the early Genesis sound as heard on Trespass. The album is however a resolutely solo album from one of rock music's most interesting composers and musician.

Reviews

"Years ago this record would have probably been part of the Private Parts And Pieces series, with which Phillips associated all the instrumental albums recorded at home often with only one instrument. But since he became more involved with library music and TV wildlife soundtracks, Genesis first guitarist basically has little time for his own proper production. And in fact he needed some six years to do this album, and this had never happened before. On the other hand, Field Day is a double album which gives us, in more than two hours, about 60 fragments of tenderness and sensitiveness where the artist (nowadays mainly working with keyboards) returns to his first love: the acoustic guitar. Not only in various guises: 6 and 12 strings, but also exotic instruments like charanga, cittern, bazouki and mandolin. The melodies, often melancholic, assail us with their impressing emotional strength. And it is poetry again."

Mario Giammetti Review from Jam Magazine, Italy, Jan 2006

A hilly landscape, made of flourished dunes, secular trees and misty valleys. The prelude to a great springtime day. This is what you’ll alternatively see if you wake up early in the morning in deep Surrey or if you open the digipack of Anthony Phillips new double album. Focus on the CD tray’s image: this could be anywhere, but suits perfectly the musical content of Field Day. It’s been a long time since ex Genesis Phillips – first guitarist until Trespass, but still source of inspiration to the subsequent band’s artistic development – pleased us with an acoustic guitar album. Even if the needs and duties of the music library world have been anchoring him to the keyboards, Ant managed to scrape the rust off his magnificent guitarist hands - inevitable when you suddenly stop playing nylon and acoustic guitars, 12 string, charango, greek or english bouzouki – and after 4 years of work he finally recorded 61 (!) tracks. For those who love pastoral stories narrated simply from the heart, who adore transferts to a past age – maybe the medieval-fiction era suggested by the cover of his masterpiece The Geese And The Ghost – and who shiver to the intro of Genesis “The Musical Box” (yes it was Ant’s idea), here’s finally come your springtime Field Day.***** FRANCESCO GAZZARA

This London born guitarist is one of the founders of the famous group Genesis. Together with Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and
Tony Banks they released two albums “From Genesis to Revelation”, and “Trespass”in 1970. After 3 years he left Genesis and started a
solo career and released in 1977 his first solo album “The Geese and The Ghost”. Anthony also called “Ant” released totally some
20 CD's. His newest solo CD “Field Day” is a double CD which is a treasure for any acoustic guitar enthusiast. On these 2 CD's he
plays on 17 different instruments. “Ant” plays many guitars like Larrivée and Guild steel-string guitars, Yairi and Ramirez classical
guitars, mandolin and Greek Bazouki among other instruments.

Most compositions reveal a very profound sound which have as well a classical as a finger-style orientated setup. The pieces give one an
intense feeling of calmness, serenity and a spiritual mood, like the wonderful passionate piece “Lifer” which has a classical atmosphere.
There are to many pieces to discuss but it is truly a masterwork that will take one on an adventurous musical journey with beautiful and
intense feelings. The guitar techniques ”Ant” uses are of a top-notch quality and vary varied, well structured and balanced. Some tracks
have a medieval feeling like “White Spider” and “Half Way Out”. “Weeping Willow the first track of the second CD goes very deep
below the surface and reveals a serene feeling which nurtures ones soul, just as “Love Not Shared”, “Days of Grace”, “Oubliette”, “Tania”,
“Midnight Blue” and among “Evening Shroud”. Some more faster tracks are “Rapscallion”, “To The Lighthouse” and “Sunfish Shallows”.

Anthony Phillips delivered with “Field Day” a source of inspiration for any music and guitar lover, truly a virtuoso on as well on guitar as many other instruments.

Highly Recommended!

Henk te Veldhuis
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