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Anthony Phillips 2005 Field Day (2 CD) [192]

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Anthony Phillips - 2005 - Field Day (2 CD) [192]
Genre: Symphonic Prog (MIX OF PROGRESSIVE CLASSICAL ROCK, NEW AGE & FOLK)
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.anthonyphillips.co.uk/

ANTHONY PHILLIPS biography (at Progarchives):
Anthony PHILLIPS was one of the original founding members of GENESIS featuring Peter GABRIEL, Tony BANKS, and Michael RUTHERFORD. Following "Trespass", GENESIS' second album, PHILLIPS left (purportedly due to stage fright) and was replaced by Steve HACKETT. Nothing was heard again from Anthony until 1977, when he favored us with his first solo, "The Geese and the Ghost", although PHILLIPS wasn't the first member of the band to release a solo album (that honor goes to Steve HACKETT, by releasing "Voyage of the Acolyte", in 1975). A more commercial audience was courted on "Wise After The Event" and "Sides", to no avail, and PHILLIPS spent much of his time releasing instrumental pieces (both old and new) under the "Private Parts & Pieces" series. Steeped in classical, pre-Baroque, and folk influences, he was able to record entire albums featuring only his acoustic instrument. He is one of the world's masters on the twelve string guitar and piano compositions that hark back to GENESIS' original lost innocence. His studio recordings reveal a distinctive character to his compositions on those instruments as well.

Some of his albums are more "progessive" than others, especially "Sides" (INTERESTING CD), "Private Parts and Pieces II" (A MUST! for fans of early GENESIS), "PP&P IX", and "Wise After the Event" (A MASTERPIECE); others are more "classical" in style like "PP&P III", "PP&P V", "PP&P VI" or "poppy" like "Invisible Men" and a few tracks on "Sides". Anthony PHILLIPS' 1977 debut album is one of the best works, but all of them are excellent. This album (1977) by Ant is my second favorite PHILLIPS album after "Wise After the Event". Even more its a jewel for every Rock collection, but in its own particular genre (a mix of those quiet moments of "Trespass" of GENESIS+the medieval folkprog style by GRYPHON). As you well have gathered, "Anthology" (1995) is an album that has a compilation of tracks from his solo career. This album is the perfect introduction to the world of Anthony PHILLIPS.

Field Days - Album review (at Progarchives; by N-man):
OK! Another great piece of music by one of the most underrated, yet awsome artists. I'm talking about Mr.Phillips, of course. I've only got two of his records (The Geese & the Ghost, being the other one), and they're both amazing! I had to try hard to get them. I found TG&TG by lucky chance last year, and I found this one (by lucky chance, also) on a recent trip to the US (I live in Argentina, so it's a long trip one cannot do regularly!) at Virgin Records Megatsore (My God, I'd never seen so many good records together in one store before!). Well, ok. Let's talk about "Field day". This is a double-disc album for acustic guitars, mainly (he uses 12-string, 6-string, 10-string guitars, charangas, etc.). This guy is the master of all acustic guitars! This is not just a record he did with these acustic instruments, improvizing, just to show his abilities. These are very well-thought and structured pieces, which he had written some time before recording the album between 2004-5 (Most of them were written in 2001, some in 2002-3 and others in 2004. There are a couple of tracks which came out of old material from a lot of years before, like "Nocturne"-1975). There is a main theme which gets repeated through the album: on "Voyage out", "Half way out" and "Out and beyond", and also (with some variations) on "Swoon", "Chasing the light" and "Tearaway". So, I won't go song by song 'cos that's impossible. They're 61 tracks for acustic guitar! You have to listen to them, there's no way I can explain the greatness of each of these tracks! All I can say is that they're played with passion, feeling, softness. There are some melancholic, sad ones, energetic and experimental ones, and some other soft and lively ones. It brings back some the old GENESIS (from "Tresspass"), it crosses different genres, some with an old Argentinian "guitarreada" style. So, as you can see Ant has a lot of musical knowledge. One thing I want to point out is that this won't bore you for one second! The tracks go by really fast. You feel that you play the record from track 1 and, in a matter of 5 minutes, it's already track 27, or something! And the whole album passes by in what seems like 20 minutes, when it's acually 2 hours! Another thing is that I don't think this is really SYMPHONIC prog, I think this is more like prog folk of some sort. You'll hear some interesting sounds on the main theme. Some kind of synth effect creating this very pleasent ambient. So, what else can I say? This record is the greatest piece of acustic guitar you can get! Try hard to find it, and, if can't do it in your country, travel the world 'till you get it! When you do so, just go outside or look through the window and watch the sunset as Ant's strings fill your ears with delight! Note: Anthony Phillips is one of the greatest musicians alive and this is THE BEST acustic guitar set in the whole world! Buy it, no matter how high the price is!!!

PS:Pay special attention to "Concerto de Álvarez" and the whole "Parlour Suite". Enjoy yourselves!!!

LONG LIVE PROG!

Track Listings

Disk 1 (664:41)
1. The Voyage Out (1:24)
2. High Fives (1:54)
3. Credo (1:55)
4. Cerise (1:19)
5. Runaway Horse (2:32)
6. Home Sweet Home (0:45)
7. Steps Retraced (4:11)
8. Field Day (1:44)
9. Nocturne (3:47)
10. Tryst (4:25)
11. Girl In The Gallery (1:05)
12. Bel Ami (2:04)
13. Concerto de Alvarez (8:27)
14. Lifer (3:16)
15. Chasing The Light (1:40)
16. Parlour Suite I (1:39)
17. Parlour Suite II (1:01)
18. Parlout Suite III (1:07)
19. Parlour Suite IV (0:56)
20. Parlous Suite V (1:48)
21. Parlour Suite VI (1:36)
22. Parlous Suite VII (0:46)
23. Parlour Suite VIII (1:48)
24. Swoon (0:55)
25. River Of Life (3:05)
26. Momento (0:48)
27. Open Road (1:05)
28. White Spider (6:38)
29. Half Way Out (1:01)


Disc 2 (64:02)
1. Weeping willow (5:50)
2. The love not shared (0:52)
3. Sojourn (2:47)
4. Dawn over the field of eternity (1:23)
5. Fallen city (4:50)
6. Rain on Sag Harbour (1:38)
7. Days of grace (2:35)
8. Timeline (0:37)
9. Oubliette (3:33)
10. Tania (2:57)
11. Babbling brook (0:55)
12. Shimmering Sharon (0:30)
13. Tea Room in Terra Del Fuego (1:11)
14. Mudlark (1:41)
15. Tearaway (1:25)
16. Midnight blue (0:41)
17. Evening shroud (1:14)
18. Rapscallion (0:45)
19. Beyond the castle walls (1:09)
20. Forgotten pathway (2:16)
21. Fairy ring (0:44)
22. Largo d'amour (3:17)
23. Whippersnapper (1:21)
24. Kissing gate (1:54)
25. To the lighthouse (8:10)
26. Driftwood (0:27)
27. Festoons and billows (0:58)
28. Flotsam and jetsam (0:51)
29. Sunfish shallows (1:15)
30. Smart Alec (1:43)
31. Prayer for Natalie (2:11)
32. Out and beyond (2:22)

Total Time: 128:43

Line-up/Musicians

- Anthony Phillips / 6, 10 & 12-string acustic guitars, Parlour guitar, cittern, bazouki, charanga.

Releases information

CD Blueprint Records BP362CD (2005)

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