Private Parts and Pieces IX -XI

Anthony was a founding member of Genesis alongside Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks with whom he recorded the albums ‘From Genesis To Revelation’ and ‘Trespass’. After leaving the group in 1970, Anthony studied orchestration and harmony externally at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He marked his return to the commercial music scene with the release of his debut solo album ‘The Geese & The Ghost’ in 1977 and continued to create a large and diverse output as a recording artist. Anthony is known for the successful series of the ‘Private Parts & Pieces’ albums. Beginning in 1978 the first four volumes featured an extensive range of music recorded for various projects (going as far back as 1972) and came to be regarded by fans as essential collections of his wide and diverse compositional work.

In 2018 Anthony Phillips and Jonathan Dann compiled this four disc deluxe set, which gathered together ‘Volumes IX to XI’ of the ‘Private Parts & Pieces’ albums, ‘Dragonfly Dreams’, ‘Soiree’ and ‘City of Dreams’. Importantly, the set also added an additional 18-track CD of previously unreleased material, ‘Private Parts and Extra Pieces III’, featuring recordings made between 1991 and 2012. This additional CD was far from being a loose collection of unreleased recordings but was a carefully curated album which should be seen as an additional volume in the ‘Private Parts & Pieces’ series, making this box set a definitive collection of these classic albums. The set includes a booklet with an essay by Jonathan Dann and fully restores the artwork of the original releases.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

PRIVATE PARTS & PIECES VOL. IX: DRAGONFLY DREAMS

PART I

1. OPENERS

2. IN THE VALLEYS

3. SOMETHING BLUE

4. QUANGO

5. LOSTWITHIEL

6. UNDER THE ICE

7. SARAH BLAKELEY’S EVENING

8. SHE’LL BE WAITING

9. STILL TIME

PART II

10. HILLS OF LANGUEDOC

11. LUIGI PALTA’S CONFESSION

12. THE TEARS OF PABLO PARAGUAS

13. MELANCHOLY FLOWER

14. NIGHT SONG

15. CHINESE WALLS

16. OLD FAITHFUL

17. SUMMER PONDS & DRAGONFLIES

18. LOST AND FOUND

DISC TWO

PRIVATE PARTS & PIECES VOL. X: SOIREE

1. SAD BALLERINA

2. FINAL LIGHTS

3. SULTRY LEAVES

4. FIVERS

5. CREATION

6. KEEPSAKE

7. VENETIAN MYSTERY

8. SCYTHIA

9. CANTILENA

10. THE OREGON TRAIL

11. PASSACAGLIA

12. GAZEBO

13. PASSEPIED

14. FALLEN FLOWER

15. NOBLESSE OBLIGE

16. HOPE OF AGES

17. OBEZAG

18. RAIN SUITE

19. AFTER YOU LEFT

20. SUMMER'S JOURNEY

DISC THREE

PRIVATE PARTS & PIECES VOL. XI: CITY OF DREAMS

1. CITY OF DREAMS I

2. PILEDRIVER

3. KING OF THE MOUNTAINS

4. CORAL ISLAND

5. ASTRAL BATH

6. CITY OF DREAMS II

7. AIR & GRACE

8. TUSCAN WEDDING

9. MYSTERY TRAIN I

10. SUNSET POOLS

11. SEA & SARDINIA

12. WATCHING WHILE YOU SLEEP

13. NIGHT OWL

14. THE DEEP

15. CITY OF DREAMS III

16. MYSTERY TRAIN II

17. STAR'S END

18. DOOM FLOWER

19. NIGHT TRAIN TO NOVROGOD

20. SEA OF TRANQUILITY

21. 39 STEPS

22. LAKE OF FIRE

23. REALMS OF GOLD

24. CITY OF DREAMS IV

25. DAYS OF YORE

26. ACROSS THE STEPS

27. ACT OF FAITH

28. GRAND MASTER

29. MYSTERY TRAIN III

30. ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

31. THE HOMECOMING

DISC FOUR

PRIVATE PARTS & EXTRA PIECES III

1. HIGH ROLLER

2. PIANO DRAMA MOVEMENT I

3. SUNSET DRIFTER

4. LOSTWITHIEL LINK

5. ROADS IN BETWEEN

6. SHIMMERING PEAKS

7. CASTLES AND COURTSHIPS

8. BRAND NEW CADILLAC

9. OCEAN OF STARS

10. PABLO DRIES OUT

11. LOST MONOLITH

12. A SIMPLE MAN

13. NIGHT SONG (ALTERNATE MIX)

14. FIREFLY

15. CONSTELLATION OF HOPE

16. PIANO DRAMA MOVEMENT III

17. HEAVEN'S GATE

18. LOST AND FOUND (ALTERNATE MIX)