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Take This Heart: Anthony Phillips Collects Solo Rarities, Genesis Demos, Musical Scores on "Archive Collection" Box Set

March 16, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Anthony Phillips Archive Collection 1 and 2

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Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has had a long relationship with composer and founding Genesis lead guitarist Anthony Phillips encompassing reissues of various solo albums as well as his Private Parts and Pieces compilation series.  Earlier this year, Esoteric turned its attention to another collection drawn from Phillips' prodigious vaults: the 5-CD box set Archive Collection Volume 1 & Volume 2.

Phillips' Archive Collection had its antecedent in Private Parts and Pieces (which featured both archival and newly-written material) as well as in the prolific artist's Missing Links series.  The original Volume 1 in the series was issued in 1998 on the Blueprint label collecting material dating back to the Genesis days through the early 1990s.  (Anthony departed Genesis in 1970 after recording just two albums with the pre-Phil Collins lineups.)  That version presented a full CD with a bonus EP; for this reissue, certain tracks have been restored and remixed from original multitrack sources, and the EP has been extended to an entire disc's worth of music.   Volume Two followed as a 2-CD set in 2004, spanning the period of 1971-1988.

For this 2022 edition, a third volume entitled The Masquerade Tapes has been included.  This is a collection of demos written for a stage musical version of Kit Williams' 1979 children's book Masquerade.  (The book, about a hare named Jack who seeks to bring a treasure from the Moon to the Sun but eventually loses it, sparked a real-life treasure hunt when the author planted a jeweled hare in an undisclosed location in Britain.  The illustrations would provide the clues.  The treasure was found in 1982, leading to a flurry of fraud accusations against the finder who was associated with an ex-girlfriend of Williams'.)

Esoteric's box makes for a definitive dip into Phillips' vaults, especially thanks to the detailed, track-by-track liner notes by the artist's co-compiler Jonathan Dann in the squarebound 60-page booklet.  Genesis fans will enjoy hearing a demo of "Stranger," performed by the band in concert but never recorded in the studio, as well as early collaborations with Mike Rutherford dating back to 1966 (!).  The additional material on the Archive Collection box expands the stories of such acclaimed albums as The Geese and the Ghost (with Phillips/Rutherford demos from 1969 and numerous alternate mixes and versions from the album sessions), Sides, Invisible Men, Slow Dance, and Tarka.  The multi-instrumentalist's television, film, stage, and library music work are also represented as well as intriguing projects such as a "rock Shakespeare" release from which "Scottish Suite II," based on Macbeth, has been included.  (A 1976 library composition entitled "Romeo and Juliet" is also here.)  It seems that Phillips rarely let a good song go to waste; one track, "Lucy: An Illusion," was written in 1969, re-recorded in the 1978 version heard here, and released in a different recording in 1990.

"West Side Alice" and "Quadrille" were composed for Anthony's musical Alice, a modernized take on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland co-written with Richard Scott and staged in 1984 at the Leeds Playhouse.  The Masquerade demos on CD 5 showcase another musical theatre project.  Although Anthony was initially tapped to contribute additional music - his collaborator Rupert Hine and Rupert's then-girlfriend Jeannette Obstoj were to pen the lion's share of the score - he eventually wrote an album's worth of material for the musical.  Despite various rumors (including one that Kate Bush would play a role!), Masquerade never got off the ground in the Hine/Phillips version.  The Zombies' Rod Argent eventually wrote a new score, and the musical opened at London's Young Vic in 1982 starring Roger Rees (The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Cheers) and Sarah Brightman (Phantom of the Opera).  It closed after 31 performances, but this new box set offers a chance to hear what might have been.

Anthony Phillips' Archive Collection is housed in a clamshell case with each disc in an individual sleeve featuring artwork by Peter Cross.  Everything has been remastered in 2021 by Jonathan Dann.  You'll find the track listing and order links for the release below.

Anthony Phillips, Archive Collection Volume I & Volume II (Cherry Red/Esoteric ECLEC 52786, 2022) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

CD 1: Volume I, Disc 1

  1. Back to Pluto
  2. Promenade
  3. Take This Heart
  4. Beside the Water's Edge
  5. The Geese and the Ghost
  6. Which Way the Wind Blows
  7. Rowey Song
  8. Lucy Will
  9. God If I Saw Her Now
  10. In Memoriam Ad
  11. Hunt Song
  12. Rule Britannia Closing Theme
  13. Exocet
  14. Study in G
  15. Holy Deadlock
  16. Catch You When You Fall
  17. F Sharp
  18. The Geese and the Ghost
  19. F Sharp 2
  20. Rowey Reprise
  21. Slow Dance
  22. The Burnt-Out Cattle Truck Hits the Road
  23. The Women Were Watching

CD 2: Volume I, Disc 2

  1. KIP PJ (1978)
  2. Queen Bettine
  3. What Is the Meaning?
  4. Farewell
  5. Cradle Song
  6. Master of Time
  7. Lucy: An Illusion
  8. Henry Goes to War
  9. Sleepfall Celeste
  10. God If I Saw Her Now
  11. Make the Best of a Bad Situation
  12. Regrets
  13. Nightmare Link
  14. Greenhouse
  15. In Absentia
  16. Stranger
  17. Master of Creation
  18. Pennsylvania Flickhouse

CD 3: Volume II, Disc 1

  1. Guitar Song
  2. The Anthem from Tarka
  3. Deep in the Night
  4. Bleak House
  5. Our Man in Japan
  6. Child Song
  7. Old Wives Tale

Scottish Suite

  1. Leaping Salmon
  2. The Witching Hour
  3. Two Truths
  4. The Letter
  5. Walpurgis Night
  6. Sweet Reaper
  7. Why Sinks This Cauldron?
  8. Her Last Sleepwalk

 

  1. Sally
  2. Windmill
  3. Tregenna Afternoon
  4. Lofty Vaults

CD 4: Volume II, Disc 2

  1. Highland Fling
  2. Prelude No. 1
  3. Siesta
  4. Bubble and Squeak
  5. Guru
  6. Shady Arbours
  7. West Side Alice
  8. Vic's Tango
  9. Seven Long Years
  10. Romeo and Juliet
  11. I Saw You Today
  12. The Anthem from Tarka
  13. Quadrille (from Alice)

Desert Suite

  1. Sand Dance
  2. Pipelines
  3. End Theme

 

  1. Fantomas (Opening Theme)
  2. Sistine
  3. Sisters of Remindum
  4. Will the Last Man off the Ice Rink (Please Turn Out the Lights)
  5. Finale

CD 5: The Masquerade Tapes

  1. Overture
  2. Moon
  3. Sun
  4. Tara's Theme
  5. Craw
  6. All Horrors of the Night
  7. Penny Pockets
  8. Hare B Minor
  9. Destiny
  10. Fire
  11. Yellow Carpet
  12. Masque Moon
  13. Moon's Lament for the Sun
  14. Last of the Heavy Hares
  15. Only a Dream

CD 1, Tracks 1-23 & CD 2, Tracks 1-5 from Archive Collection Volume 1, Blueprint BP279CD, 1998
CD 2 & CD 3 from Archive Collection Volume 2, Blueprint BP360CD, 2004

Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Rock Tags: Anthony Phillips, Genesis, Mike Rutherford

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others. Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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