Out now is On Track...Camel by
Hamish Kuzminski, a book in the series which takes a look at every
song on every album by a particular band or artist. Ant has
given an interview for the book where he talks about his
collaboration with Andy Latimer (including the intriguing prospect
of them co-writing the soundtrack for the 1984 film The
Terminator, which sadly never happened) as well as his appearance on the band's 1982 album
The Single Factor.
With a forward by Marillion guitarist Steve
Rothery, the book takes a chronological journey through each of
Camel's album releases and includes biographical information about
every member of the band as well as live albums and the various DVDs
and Blu-Rays the band have released over the years.
On Track...Camel is out now and is
available from
Amazon.
1984 at 40 (News date:
2-7-21)
Ant's sixth solo album 1984 was
released 40 years ago and to mark this anniversary we have a new
feature article about the writing and recording of the album, Ant's
work on the TV series Rule Britannia, the reception to 1984 from
both the press and the fans and the more recent re-issues of the
album, including the re-mixing of it in 5.1 Surround Sound.
1984 was a radical departure from the more pastoral feel of much of
Ant's solo work, which saw him experiment with synthesisers to a
much greater extent than he had done so previously, resulting in a
keyboard dominated album. At the time of release the album
divided opinions among fans with some feeling that Ant had
abandoned his acoustic roots whilst others loved it.
Print reviews of the collection have also been published in Prog (Issue
115), Good Times (Germany) and Classic Rock (Italy).
Missing Links I - IV 5 CD Remastered box set
(News date: 11-9-20, updated 27-11-20)
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 out now and available to order from
Cherry Red and
Amazon.
Lettie: Let Let Go digital single released
(News date: 4-12-20)
In 2016 two songs (Halcyon Days (Days To
Remember) and Sunshine On Your Shoulder) which were
co-written and recorded by Ant in collaboration with
singer-songwriter
Lettie were released as digital singles. Originally
written and recorded for a library music project and used on various
television programmes around the world, the songs were commercially
released for the first time in a newly-imagined form by Ant and
co-producer James Collins.
Two further co-written and recorded songs by
Ant and Lettie (Let Let Go and Over And Over Again)
have now been released as a new digital single release and are
available via the usual outlets such as Spotify and iTunes.
The single is now also available from
Amazon.
The Living Room Concert - Remastered and Expanded Digipak
Edition (News date: 27-4-20, updated 24-7-20)
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.
The Living Room Concert reviews (News date: 29-6-20, updated 24-7-20)
A review of the forthcoming remastered and expanded edition of The
Living Room Concert has been published on Velvet Thunder and can be
seen
here. Our thanks to Lorne Murphy for sending us the details of the
review.
A further review of the re-issue has now been published by the German
Genesis Fan Club and can be read
here (in English) and
here (in German).
Rupert Hine 1947 - 2020 (News date: 11-6-20)
The multi-talented Rupert Hine who produced Ant's albums Wise After The
Event and Sides sadly passed away last week. A noted songwriter and
musician in his own right, in a career that stretched for over 50 years
Rupert produced over 160 albums working with a wide variety of artists
including Rush, Camel, Howard Jones, Tina Turner and Stevie Nicks. He
also wrote and recorded a number of solo albums as well as being a member of
Quantum Jump.
Ant's personal tribute to Rupert can be read
here. Our thoughts are with Rupert's family and friends at this
time.
Tabletop Genesis podcast on Wise After The Event(News date: 9-4-20)
The latest podcast in the
Tabletop Genesis
series features an interesting track-by-track discussion of Ant's album
Wise After The Event . The podcast can heard by clicking on the play button
below.
