Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of an Expanded and Re-mastered Edition of Radio Clyde.

In order to promote the release of his second solo album Wise After The Event, Ant travelled to various locations in both Europe and the UK to give radio and press interviews.  For the UK radio interviews on this promo tour, Ant took a guitar with him with a view to performing one or two songs live in the studio and this arrangement was taken further with the offer from the Glasgow-based Radio Clyde to record an hour-long session of songs and instrumental pieces for later broadcast.  Whilst variable quality off-air recordings of the show subsequently circulated amongst fans, the discovery of a copy of the session in Ant's archives afforded the opportunity for an official CD release in 2003.

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a 2 CD Expanded and Re-mastered Edition of Sail The World.

In 1993 Ant was commissioned to write and record the music for ITV's televised coverage of the Whitbread Round The World Yacht Race, which was broadcast between September 1993 and June 1994.  A CD of Ant's music for the programme was subsequently released to tie-in with the conclusion of the Race, with a second edition of the album appearing in 2010 that included three bonus tracks and updated mixes of a number of the pieces.

A review of the Expanded & Remastered Edition has now been published on Velvet Thunder.

Private Parts & Pieces IX - XI - a four disc deluxe set which gathered together three albums in the Private Parts & Pieces series (Dragonfly Dreams, Soirée and City of Dreams) - was released in 2018 as part of the Esoteric Recordings re-issue series of Ant's back catalogue.  The set also included Private Parts & Extra Pieces III, an 18-track 55 minute CD which featured a carefully curated collection of previously unreleased material designed to complement the music on the three albums.  An illustrated booklet with detailed notes and essay chronicling the recording of each of the albums was also included.

The tracks on the extra CD include an acoustic instrumental version of Roads In Between, some previously unheard tracks recorded in collaboration with Quique Berro Garcia and two Movements of the extended piece Piano Drama.

Private Parts & Pieces IX - XI has been out of print for some time and a new pressing of the set is now available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon.

It is now the tenth anniversary of the release of the five CD boxed set Harvest of the Heart and in turn this also marks ten years to date of Ant's association with Cherry Red Records through the Esoteric Recordings label.  Our photo here shows the various titles from Ant's back catalogue along with the two new albums (Strings of Light and Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour) that have been released to date.

We'd like to thank everyone at Esoteric and Cherry Red for all their work over the last decade in making Ant's catalogue available in a re-mastered and expanded form.  Thanks are also due to everyone who has bought any (or indeed all) of the releases - your support in doing this is sincerely appreciated.

Esoteric Antenna are pleased to announce the release of Ant's new album Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour.

The Golden Hour is the first new volume in the long-running Private Parts & Pieces series since City of Dreams in 2012 and Ant's first new solo album release in five years.  The album features some beautiful and evocative pieces including the four-part 'Wychmore Hill Suite' and a vocal version of 'Roads In Between'.  It also includes guest appearances on two tracks by guitarist Quique Berro Garcia, who has contributed to previous volumes in the Private Parts & Pieces series including Antiques, Slow Waves Soft Stars and Dragonfly Dreams.

Ant describes The Golden Hour as "a very traditional Private Parts & Pieces album of old, a collection of pieces of disparate background hopefully constituting a cohesive whole".  The track listing for the album can be seen here.

The Golden Hour is out now and is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon.  The album is also available on Bandcamp.

"The latest instalment of this occasional series is arguably the best yet" (Prog)

"Pure musical magic" (Progressive Rock Central)

October 2019 saw the release of Strings of Light, Ant's first solo album release in seven years which featured twenty four pieces of music across two CDs.  The tracks on the album saw Ant utilisting the many beautiful and rare guitars in his collection to make Strings of Light one of the finest instrumental guitar albums in his long and acclaimed career as a musician and composer.

The original release of the album was as a 2 CD & 1 DVD digipak which has sold out and now a 2 CD Jewel Case Edition of the album is being released to make Strings of Light available once more.  The audio content of this new Edition is the same as the 2 CDs from the original release.

The 2 CD Jewel Case Edition of Strings of Light is available to order now from Cherry Red and Amazon.

Update: A review of the 2 CD edition has been published in Issue 149 of Prog and can be read here.

First released in September 1990, Ant's two-part instrumental suite Slow Dance has gone on to become one of his most highly regarded album releases.

In June 2017 Esoteric Recordings released an Expanded and Re-mastered edition of the album, which went out of print some time ago.  Now a new 2 CD Jewel Case Edition of the album is being released to make Slow Dance available once more.  The audio content of the Jewel Case Edition is the same as the 2 CDs first released in the Expanded Edition, with the first CD featuring the original stereo mix of the album re-mastered for the first time since the original release by co-producer Simon Heyworth.  The second disc contains a selection of 'Slow Dance Vignettes', which includes alternate mixes and variations of themes from the album.

The 2 CD Jewel Case Edition of Slow Dance is available to order now from Cherry Red and Amazon. 

Update: Reviews of the 2 CD Edition have now been published on Progradar and The Second Disc.