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New album release: Private Parts & Pieces XII:
The Golden Hour (News date: 22-3-24, updated 12-9-24)
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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.
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Dale Newman: Red
Skies
(News date: 12-9-24)
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Dale Newman -
vocalist on Ant's album Sides and latterly his "Guitar
Tsar" (maintaining Ant's collection of stringed instruments) - has
recently
released Red Skies, a collection of eight songs
and his second album release in 2024, which is now available exclusively on Bandcamp.
The album
features a further selection of some of the older songs from Dale's
extensive repertoire, which he has revisted and reworked for this
new release.
Red Skies is available now on Bandcamp, where you can also find
Dale's previous EP releases
Wild Flowers and
Somewhere Down The Road together with his albums
Old Flames and
Dale Newman. In addition, all of Dale's releases on
Bandcamp are now available as a bundle at a special price.
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Looking back at
Slow Waves, Soft Stars (News date:
9-8-24)
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Released in August 1987,
Slow Waves, Soft Stars was the seventh Private Parts &
Pieces album which saw a move towards a wider canvas following
the release of the previous two albums in the series that had comprised pieces
for solo instruments.
With the album featuring a number of improvised synthesiser
soundscapes alongside acoustic guitar pieces, it was seen at the
time of its release to fit in with the then-growing market for New
Age music. As a result Ant's then-record company sought to
capitalise on this by doing some promotion for
it, which in turn raised his profile as an artist for the first time
in a number of years.
The story of the album is detailed in a new feature, which can be seen
here.
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That's My Vinyl Answer interview
(News date: 18-7-24, updated 29-7-24)
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Ant recently did an interview for That's My Vinyl Answer, a
podcast made by Make A Difference With Records which is a charity based in
Godalming in Surrey that raises funds for the mental
welfare charity Catalyst through the sale of second hand vinyl and CDs.
In
an interesting and wide-ranging chat, Ant talks about the new album The
Golden Hour as well as a number of other topics including the origins of
the original Genesis 12-string sound, early musical influences and he also
gives his personal choices of pieces of music to include in the show's
"virtual vinyl vault".
The interview is in two parts and can be seen on YouTube (Part
One and
Part
Two) as well being heard in audio form as a podcast on Spotify (Part
One and
Part Two) and other platforms.
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Private Parts & Pieces XII:
The Golden Hour reviews & Prog interview (News date:
5-6-24, updated 8-7-24)
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Reviews of Private Parts & Pieces XII:
The Golden Hour have now been published on
Progressive Rock Central,
Velvet Thunder and by the German Genesis Fan Club (in
English and
German).
A review of the album also appears in issue 150 of Prog magazine, which also contains
a six page interview feature with Ant by writer Daryl Easlea as the
subject of The Prog Interview. Copies of this issue of the magazine can be ordered
here.
Update: The interview
feature from Prog is now also available to read
here
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Strings of Light 2 CD
Jewel Case Edition
(News date: 2-2-24, updated 23-4-24)
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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.
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Slow Dance 2 CD
Jewel Case Edition
(News date: 28-10-23, updated 24-4-24)
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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.
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Gypsy Suite
Re-mastered & Expanded Edition (News date: 24-11-23,
updated 5-3-24)
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Esoteric
Recordings are pleased to announce the release of an expanded and
re-mastered edition of Gypsy Suite by Anthony Phillips and
Harry Williamson.
Ant and Harry first met in 1968 but it was not until the summer of
1971 that they had the opportunity to spend time together to write
new material based on their joint exploration of unusual guitar
tunings. The first three Movements of Gypsy Suite
were the result of these sessions, with a fourth Movement being
composed in late 1975 before the Suite was recorded in March 1978.
Gypsy Suite also includes the demo recordings of Movements
I and II of Ant and Harry's other major collaborative
work Tarka from 1975 and 1976 respectively. On this
new edition they are complemented by a previously
unreleased solo piano demo of Tarka Movement III: The Hunt
recorded during the 1976 sessions, which has been newly mixed from
the original multi-track masters.
Originally released in 1995 and unavailable for a number of
years, this new edition of Gypsy Suite has been re-mastered
for the first time since the original release and
features new liner notes by Jon Dann.
Gypsy Suite is
available to order now from
Cherry Red and
Amazon.
Update: A review of the re-mastered and
Expanded Edition of Gypsy Suite is included in
issue 147 of Prog and can be read
here.
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