Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of Missing Links I - IV, a newly re-mastered 5 CD clamshell box set comprising the four original Missing Links albums.

The Missing Links series was begun as a way to fill in some of the gaps in Ant's commercially released musical output and allow fans the opportunity to hear some of his Library and Television music.  The series began in 1989 with the release of the first volume Finger Painting (initially made available as a limited edition cassette release) which featured selections from various projects that Ant had written and recorded over the previous ten years.  A second volume - The Sky Road - followed in 1994, featuring a further selection of Library and Television pieces alongside previously unreleased album pieces and archive tracks.

The third volume - Time & Tide - was released in 1997 and brought together for the first time on a commercial release the best of Ant's collaborative work with Joji Hirota, much of which has been featured on award-winning programmes in the long-running Survival series.  2009 saw the release of the fourth volume - Pathways and Promenades - which brought together many of the individual tracks by Ant that had previously only been released on various artist compilations alongside some unreleased tracks from his library output. 

Anthony has worked with his archivist Jon Dann to prepare this new boxed set edition of this wonderful music, compiling a new additional 27 track CD 'Extra Missing Links' of previously unreleased and rare archive material exclusive to this set.

Missing Links I - IV is due for release on 27th November 2020 and is available to pre-order now from Cherry Red.

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of a new re-mastered and expanded edition of The Living Room Concert.

Originally released in May 1995, the album featured highlights of a live solo performance by Anthony which was recorded on March 21st 1993 as part of the Living Room Concert Series for the US Radio programme Echoes, a daily programme of contemporary instrumental music. The show was broadcast on 120 public radio stations in America on 25th June 1993.

For the performance Anthony selected a number of acoustic guitar and piano pieces, drawing mainly on tracks originally released on the albums The Geese and The Ghost, Private Parts and Pieces and A Catch at The Tables, along with two pieces from New England, the eighth volume in the Private Parts & Pieces series and a solo 12-string version of Conversation Piece, the first movement of a Guitar Quintet that he had composed in 1976, which had subsequently been scored with parts for strings and wind instruments.

Unavailable on CD for many years, The Living Room Concert has been re-mastered and expanded to include three previously unreleased tracks recorded for the original broadcast: Jaunty Roads, Let Us Now Make Love and Lucy: An Illusion.

This Esoteric Recordings edition restores the original artwork and includes new liner notes by Anthony Phillips archivist Jon Dann.

The Living Room Concert is out now and is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon.

Genesis 1967 - 1975: The Peter Gabriel Years by Mario Giammetti is due for publication in May as the first title to be published by Kingmaker Publishing.

The book contains numerous exclusive interviews with the band members and all the important personalities who were part of the story of Genesis between 1967 and 1975.  It also includes a number of previously unpublished photos together with interviews carried out with the individual members of Genesis during listen throughs of each of the band's first five albums.

Mario Giammetti is an Italian music journalist known as both the editor of the Italian Genesis magazine Dusk as well as the author of a number of books about the band and the individual members including The Exile, an Italian language biography of Ant which was published in 2008.  Genesis 1967 - 1975: The Peter Gabriel Years is his first book to be published in English.

Genesis 1967 - 1975: The Peter Gabriel Years was published on 8th May 2020 and can be ordered now from Burning Shed.

The German Genesis Fan Club have now published a review of the two concerts, which is available to read in both English and German.  The review also includes a nice selection of photos from the concerts.

Esoteric Antenna is pleased to announce the release of Strings Of Light, the beautiful new album by Anthony Phillips.

For his first new album in seven years Anthony has composed and recorded the twenty-four pieces of music on this album, which span two CDs, utilising the many beautiful and rare guitars in his collection, all of which have made Strings Of Light one of the finest instrumental guitar albums of Anthony's long and acclaimed career as a musician and composer.

This set is made even more special by the inclusion of a 5.1 Surround Sound mix of album on a DVD (NTSC / Region Free). After a seven year absence of new recorded work, Strings Of Light is a welcome return and a fine album by a legendary musician.

Strings of Light is out now and is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon. 

The American band Rocking Horse Music Club, who are playing two live shows of Ant's music (together with selections from Mike Rutherford's album Smallcreep's Day) at Trading Boundaries in November, have recorded a tribute album of songs from Ant's back catalogue.

Which Way The Wind Blows (subtitled The Music of Anthony Phillips) includes guest appearances from a number of notable musicans including Steve Hackett, John Hackett, Nick Magnus, Noel McCalla, Kate St John and John Helliwell.  The cover design for the CD seen here features elements of the original artwork by Peter Cross, which has been adapted with Peter's permission by Helmut Janisch from the German Genesis Fanclub.

Which Way The Wind Blows is released on 11th October and is available to order from Rocking Horse Music Club  and Burning Shed. 

CD Track listing: Um & Aargh, Paperchase, Which Way The Wind Blows, Silver Song, Something Blue, Pulling Faces, Collections,  Sleepfall: The Geese Fly West, Nightmare