PRIVATE PARTS AND PIECES 7 & 8

 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. Anthony also felt he

needed to improve his arranging skills and musical education

and learnt to sight-read music. It was also during this time that

Ant continued writing with Mike Rutherford and recordings were

made of songs like Silver Song, which included Mike Rutherford

and also Phil Collins. Some of these early recordings and demos

from this period can be found on the album The Archive Collection

Volume One. Much of the first two albums and even material that

would go on to be released on The Private Parts And Pieces series

were originally written during this period which took on a stop start

feel as the profile of Genesis became higher.

Volume Seven in the Private Parts and Pieces series is entitled

Slow Waves Soft Stars and was originally released in 1987 and

was the first of the Private Parts and Pieces series to be simultaneously

released on vinyl and the then new format of compact disc.

Containing the tracks Beachrunner, End Of the Affair, The Golden Pathway

and Behind The Waterfall this album like many of the others in the series

has been unavailable for some time making this release all the more

welcome.

Volume Eight in the series is titled New England and was the first of

the Private parts and Pieces albums to be released in the nineties with

the original release being in 1992. The album features the tracks Infra Dig,

Sanctuary and the New England Suite parts one through to three.

Another welcome reissue following a period of unavailability.

DISC 2

1. Aubade

2. Infra Dig

3. Sanctuary

4. La Dolorosa

5. New England Suite (i)

6. New England Suite (ii)

7. New England Suite (iii)

8. Last Goodbyes

9. Sunrise And Sea Monsters

10. Iona

11. Cathedral Woods

12. If I Could Tell You

13. Jaunty Roads

14. Spirals

15. Pieces Of Eight (i) Pressgang

16. Pieces Of Eight (ii) Sargasso

17. Pieces Of Eight (iii) Sea Shanty

18. In The Maze

19. Unheard Cry

20. Now Theyve All Gone

Anthony Edwin "Ant" Phillips (b. 23 December 1951, Chiswick, west London) is an English multi instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of the band Genesis.[1] He played guitar and sang backing vocals until leaving in 1970, following the recording of their second album, Trespass. He left due to suffering from stage fright, after being told by his doctor that the best thing would be to leave the band. He is known for his twelve string guitar work, and his influence can be heard throughout Genesis's early output.
Genesis's first album after Phillips's departure, Nursery Cryme, featured two songs which were holdovers from the days when Phillips was in the band: "The Musical Box" (originally called F#) and "The Fountain Of Salmacis." "The Musical Box" especially remains a favourite of fans.
After leaving Genesis, Phillips studied classical music (especially classical guitar) and made recordings in collaboration with Harry Williamson, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins, among others.He played the keyboards on the demos for Peter Gabriel in 1976. His first solo album, The Geese and the Ghost, was issued in 1977.
Phillips released his second album in 1978, entitled Wise After the Event. This was followed the next year by Sides. Both of these albums were produced by Rupert Hine and were intended to reach a mainstream audience, though neither album was successful in that regard.
In its initial release in the UK, Sides was accompanied by a more experimental album entitled Private Parts and Pieces; in the U.S. and Canada the two albums were issued separately. Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion followed the next year, and several further sequels were issued in the 1980s and 1990s.
Phillips began writing material with Andrew Latimer of Camel in 1981, and was a featured performer on that band's album, The Single Factor (released in 1982).
Phillips released a mainstream pop album entitled Invisible Men in 1983. He later claimed that this project went "horribly wrong" as a result of commercial pressures, and would subsequently eschew mainstream success in favour of more specialised material.
Phillips remains involved in a variety of musical projects, including extensive soundtrack work in England often for the label Atmosphere part the Universal Music Group. In the mid-1990s, he released an album entitled The Living Room Concert, which featured solo acoustic versions of his earlier material. He also provided archival material for the first Genesis box set, Genesis Archive 1967-75, released in 1998.
Several of his albums feature artwork by Peter Cross. 

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