If you missed out on the 2017 Esoteric/Cherry Red expanded reissue of founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips' 1990 Slow Dance, you're in luck. The label has just reissued Slow Dance as a 2CD set, dropping the DVD component but otherwise replicating the earlier package at a lower price. Slow Dance, a two-part orchestral suite, was recorded by Phillips in 1988 and 1989. The follow-up to Tarka, his collaborative album with Harry Williamson, Slow Dance became Phillips' first "proper" solo
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
Periodically this month, we'll be looking at titles released in the latter part of 2020 that we either didn't cover, or only covered briefly, the first time around! We hope you enjoy this look at "some nice things we've missed." Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart released his first album in 1967 but didn't break into the lucrative American market until 1974's Past, Present, and Future (released 1973 in the U.K.). While that LP only peaked within the second half of the Billboard 200, the
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! To our U.S. readers, we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and to our readers around the world, we hope you're staying safe and enjoying a lot of great music in these most challenging of times. Cee Lo Green, Cee Lo's Magic Moment (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our friends at Real Gone Music have a Christmas-green color vinyl edition of Cee Lo's Magic Moment, the 2012 holiday album by neo-soul icon Cee Lo
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has had a long relationship with composer/ex-Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips including numerous reissues and last year's release of his latest album, Strings of Light. Now, Esoteric has reissued and expanded another treasured album from Phillips: his 1995 acoustic live set The "Living Room" Concert. The album was culled from Phillips' June 25, 1993 performance as part of the Living Room Concert Series on the U.S. public radio program Echoes. As
Periodically this month, we'll be looking at titles released in the latter part of 2018 that we either didn't cover, or only covered briefly, the first time around! We hope you enjoy this look at "some nice things we've missed"... Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently continued its ongoing series dedicated to the recordings of Procol Harum and Genesis founding member Anthony Phillips. Procol's Ninth may well be one of the most unusual albums in the band's venerable
Between 1978 and 2012, founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips released eleven volumes of Private Parts & Pieces. Each volume has collected various odds and ends from the composer/multi-instrumentalist which, for one reason or another, wouldn't have fit comfortably on any of his proper solo albums. Since 2015, Cherry Red Group's Esoteric Recordings imprint has been reissuing and expanding these fascinating releases in box set form. The third and final box (to date), Private Parts
Anthony Phillips' album Invisible Men arrived in American stores in fall 1983, following the third volume of the founding Genesis guitarist's Private Parts and Pieces. Phillips envisioned more of a commercial pop sound for the album, which he crafted in collaboration with co-writer Richard Scott. That album, which featured different track listings in the U.S. and in Phillips' native U.K. (where it saw release in spring 1984), has been reissued by Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint as a
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint is happily determined to leave no stone unturned in its reissue series dedicated to the solo recordings of founding Genesis guitarist Anthony Phillips. The latest album to receive its deluxe multi-CD/DVD format is Phillips' 1990 release, Slow Dance. The original LP has been expanded with an entire bonus disc of previously unreleased session material, plus a region-free DVD containing surround and stereo mixes. Slow Dance, a two-part orchestral suite,
Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has continued its definitive Anthony Phillips reissue series with two more deluxe titles by the artist/composer: 1981's concept album 1984 as a 2-CD/DVD-A edition, and Private Parts and Pieces V-VIII in a 5-CD set. Not counting Phillips' Private Parts releases, 1984 followed his 1979 album Sides. Whereas Sides was produced by Rupert Hine with the aims of attracting a mainstream audience, 1984 was an instrumental affair containing just four tracks -
Esoteric Recordings has continued its series of definitive reissues from Genesis members Anthony Phillips, Tony Banks and Steve Hackett with two new mini-box sets dedicated to Phillips' solo albums Wise After the Event (1978) and Sides (1979). These 3-CD/1-DVD-A releases follow Esoteric's 2015 box set expansion of his pastoral solo debut The Geese and the Ghost as well as the label's compendium of his Private Parts and Pieces volumes. Wise After the Event remains Phillips' only album on which
The Genesis celebration at Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint continues with the release of Anthony Phillips' Private Parts and Pieces I - IV, a new 5-CD box set collecting and expanding his four albums of the same name released between 1978 and 1984. Private Parts follows Esoteric's recent deluxe expansion of Phillips' The Geese and the Ghost as well as a number of other projects from members of his famous band including a reissue of the 1986 album by Steve Hackett's band GTR and Tony
“You should hear what Anthony Phillips has been doing since he left Genesis,” heralded an advertisement for the former Genesis guitarist’s 1977 album The Geese and the Ghost. A largely-instrumental album of orchestral splendor, The Geese had a bumpy road to release, but it’s now the subject of a deluxe, expanded 2-CD/1-DVD mini-box set edition that ranks as one of the most striking reissue packages of the year. Certainly a candidate for the great lost Genesis album, The Geese and the Ghost
This week's Release Round-Up has box sets and deluxe editions a-plenty... The Pretty Things, Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky (Snapper) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This box set is much in the style of last year's Small Faces set Here Come the Nice, and contains 11 studio albums on CD with 42 bonus tracks, two rarities CDs with 45 previously unreleased tracks, 2 DVDs including a new documentary by Reelin' in the Years Productions, a 10-inch replica acetate disc, posters, an art print, and a