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Menu Shopping Cart Mailing List February Top Sellers Newsprint | Release ![]() £10.99 Stock coming soon Catalogue number VP432CD Release date 14/04/2008 Format 2CD Label Voiceprint Anthony Phillips The Geese and 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) 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. Reviews One single sentence to describe it? The right record at the wrong time. While Johnny Rotten outraged the Queen and made fun of the BBC TV host, the former Genesis member, already deemed a “dinosaur” (though, at 25, younger than many who were recycling themselves through the punk movement), had to suffer a lot before finding a record label willing to listen to his acoustic water-colours, his soft orchestrations, his soft melodies. Mario Giammetti (Genesis Fanclub, Italy) "This vastly overlooked solo release from original Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips was something of a revelation to fans of Peter Gabriel and Co. when it was first released in 1977 (years after parts of it were recorded, then shelved). Those drawn to the softer acoustic and classical sides of early Genesis were treated to lush 12-string guitar duets and piano-driven epics more inspired by Vaughan Williams than the Beatles or Crimson. Now, some three decades later, the CD has been remastered and released with a bonus CD that provides an even deeper glimpse into the classical leanings that inspired the band's early works. Genesis fans will no doubt relish the pieces here that feature old bandmates Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford (including the silken title track, epic "Henry: Portraits of Tudor Times" and dreamy "Which Way the Wind Blows"). But the extra CD is the real draw here, featuring a fascinating behind-the-music look into creation of the album's tracks, demos and never-before-released rarities." Nick Tate, Progression "There's some excellent music here well worth investigating...!"
BL, Classic Rock Society, Aug/Sept 08 "It is about time the marvellous album was rescued from being a mere curio for Genesis completists as it is a remarkable album full of beauty and remarkable musicianship fully deserving a prominent place in any discerning music lovers collection."
Henri Strik, Background, Feb 2009 ..."For fans of the music Genesis recorded from up until Track of the Tail in 1976, The Geese and the Ghost is an album they will feel pleasantly, warmly familiar with."
Paul Henderson, Classic Rock Magazine | |
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