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Asha Quinn 1952 - 2025 (News date:
10-10-25)
We were saddened to learn of the death last
week of singer-songwriter Asha Quinn (also known as Asher and Denis
Quinn) at the age of 72.
Ant first met Asha in around 1976 and went
on to help with his early musical endeavours by recording Asha's
first studio demos at Send in the Spring of 1981. In 1986 Ant
produced and engineered Asha's debut solo album Open Secret,
which featured guest appearances from Andy Latimer on a couple of
tracks. Open Secret was released by New World Music
in 1987 and the label would subsequently release a number of albums
by Asha over the next 15 years.
Ant produced two further albums for Asha (Mystic
Heart in 1989 and 1991's Amadora) and also engineered
the piano recordings that formed the basis of some of his later
instrumental releases. In 2009 Open Secret was
re-issued by Voiceprint Records, an edition of the album which
included three previously unreleased additional tracks from the
original sessions.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends
at this time.
Cherry Red 15% discount offer on back catalogue
(News date: 8-11-24, updated 27-11-24)
Cherry Red Records are offering 15% off on
all the currently available titles from Ant's back catalogue during
November. The discount can be obtained by using the code
ANTHONYPHILLIPS15 at the checkout page on their site. The
discount ends at midnight (GMT) on 30th November 2024.
The titles available to order include Ant's
latest album release Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour
along with The Living Room Concert, Field Day, Wise After The
Event, Missing Links I - IV, Seventh Heaven, Strings of Light, The
Geese & The Ghost, Slow Dance, Private Parts & Pieces I - IV,
Private Parts & Pieces V - VIII, Invisible Men, Archive CollectionsVolumes I & II, Gypsy Suite and Wildlife.
Please note that this offer has now
ended.
Dale Newman: Red
Skies (News date: 12-9-24)
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.
Richard Macphail 1950 - 2024 (News
date: 28-8-24, updated 30-8-24)
It is with great sadness that
we learned of the sudden passing of Richard
Macphail. As lead singer of the school group Anon and later as
the roadie and sound engineer for Genesis, he played a significant
part in the early days of the group.
Ant says: "During the mid-later 60's (a time of incredible
innovation and change) as a young teenager caught up in this giddy
whirl, my most constant, loyal, kind, generous and inspirational
companion on this intoxicating journey was Rich.
When the road occasionally seemed rocky and seemingly impassable, he
was a pillar and rock to me, especially during romantic trauma!
Indefatigably positive, encouraging and with a wonderful sense of
humour, we had the time of our lives. He introduced me to SO much I
would otherwise have never discovered and for which I will forever
be grateful.
Our paths in life, as so often, later diverged, and my thoughts now
are with his wife Maggie, losing him so suddenly after he survived
prostate cancer with typical bravery and aplomb."
Some further tributes to Richard can be read
here.
Looking back atSlow Waves, Soft Stars (News date:
9-8-24)
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.
Private Parts & Pieces XII:
The Golden Hour reviews& Prog interview(News date:
5-6-24, updated 8-7-24)
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
Dale Newman: Old
Flames (News date: 2-7-24)
Dale Newman -
vocalist on Ant's album Sides and latterly his "Guitar Tsar"
(maintaining Ant's collection of stringed instruments) - has just
released Old Flames, a collection of eight songs
which is now available exclusively on Bandcamp.
Dale released
his first album The Eyes Have It in 1998 but he has been
writing his own songs for many years prior to that going back to the
early Seventies. As the title suggests, Old Flames is
a selection of some of the older songs from Dale's extensive
repertoire which he has revisited and reworked for this new release.
Old Flames 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 2018 album release
Dale Newman. In addition, all of Dale's releases on
Bandcamp are now available as a bundle at a special price.
Private Parts & Pieces XII: The Golden Hour
chart positions (News date:
11-6-24, updated 19-6-24)
The new album Private Parts & Pieces
XII: The Golden Hour has entered two of the charts for 7th to
13th June published by the Official Charts Company.
This is Ant's best chart position to date as
recorded by the Official Charts Company and in the Rock and Metal
Albums chart is one place higher than Strings of Light
achieved upon release in 2019.
Many thanks to everyone who has bought a copy of the album and helped
Ant achieve these chart positions.
Soliloquy for Sylvie
digital single release (News date: 22-5-24)
As a third and final preview of The Golden Hour, Soliloquy for Sylvie
(which was co-written and recorded by Ant with Quique Berro Garcia) has been
released as a digital single
on
streaming platforms and on
YouTube.
Roads In Between (vocal version) digital single release
(News date: 8-5-24, updated 13-5-24)
As a second preview of the forthcoming new album release The Golden Hour,
Roads In Between (vocal version) has been released as a digital single
on
streaming platforms and on
YouTube.
Twilight of a Diva digital single release
(News date: 27-4-24)
As a preview of the forthcoming new album release The Golden Hour, the
piano piece Twilight of a Diva has been released as a digital single
on
streaming platforms and on
YouTube.
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.
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.
Dale Newman: Wild
Flowers EP (News date: 24-11-23)
Dale Newman -
vocalist on Ant's album Sides and latterly his "Guitar Tsar"
(maintaining Ant's collection of stringed instruments) - has just
released Wild Flowers, an EP of six new songs
which is now available exclusively on Bandcamp.
His second EP
release for 2023, the songs on Wild Flowers are drawn from
the large amount of material Dale has written over the last few
years and see him
continue todevelop his artistic vision.
Esoteric
Recordings are pleased to announce the release of an expanded and
remastered edition of Wildlife by Anthony Phillips and
Joji Hirota.
First
released in Japan in December 2007 with a worldwide
release following in April 2008, Wildlife featured music
written and recorded for programmes in the long-running television series
Survival and The Natural World and was a wonderful collection of beautifully evocative
music.From the forests of the Amazon to the huge expanses of the
Serengeti; from the cold wastes of Kamchatka in Russia to the peaceful tranquillity
of the Norfolk countryside - the music of Wildlife reflects these
habitats and the amazingly diverse range of creatures that populate them.
Released in part as a tribute to wildlife filmmaker the late
Nick Gordon, the album has now been newly
remastered and expanded to a two CD set featuring an additional disc
of soundtrack and library music pieces recorded by Ant both in
collaboration with Joji and on his own. The selection on the
second CD includes the previously unreleased soundtrack for the
documentary Hoi Ha Wan - Bay Beneath The Sea and
The Victors, a collaboration between Ant and Mike Rutherford
recorded for the TVS series Horse Trials in 1991.
This expanded
and re-mastered Esoteric Recordings edition features an illustrated
booklet with liner notes from Anthony Phillips and Jonathan Dann
together with some of Nick Gordon's original photography from the
Amazon and
is a welcome re-issue of a wonderful collection of music by two
imaginative and respected musicians.
Wildlife is out now and is available to order
from Cherry Red and
Amazon.
Update: Reviews of the Expanded Edition of
Wildlife has now been published on
Velvet Thunder and
Music Street Journal. A review also appeared in the print
edition of issue 136 of Prog.
Archive Collection Volume I & II (News date: 1-11-21, updated 17-3-22)
Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce
the release of a newly re-mastered five CD clamshell boxed set of
Archive Collection Volume One and Two.
In March 1998 Ant issued the first volume of
The Archive Collection, which featured previously unreleased
recordings including demos recorded with Mike Rutherford in
September 1969.Due to
the popularity of the first release, the double CD release Archive
Collection Volume Two followed in May 2004, which gathered together
further previously unheard tracks and variations made over the
years.
Ant has now worked with his archivist Jon Dann to prepare
this new boxed set edition of this wonderful music, compiling a new
expanded version which features an additional 27 tracks of
previously unreleased and rare archive material.
Archive Collection Volume One was originally released with an
EP length CD of additional recordings, which has now been expanded
to a full length CD (including a 1966
demo by the pre-Genesis band Anon) and the set also includes an additional CD of 'The
Masquerade Tapes', featuring music inspired by the illustrated book
by Kit Williams.
This new boxed set edition of Archive
Collection Volumes One and Two features liner notes by Jon Dann and
is a fine collection of music by one of Britain's most imaginative
and respected musicians. It is sure to appeal to aficionados of
Anthony Phillips' highly respected work.
Archive Collection
Volume I & II is out now and is
available to order from
Cherry Red
and
Amazon.
A new interview with Ant by Eoghan Lyng for Penny Black Music which covers
a number of different areas has just been published on their site and can
be read
here.
The Ant Band: The Image Blown Out
video
clip(News date: 23-12-23)
The Ant Band,
a virtual alliance of musicians from all over Germany (who previously
released the Ant tribute album A Light on the Hill in 2021) have
just released a new video clip of a track from their forthcoming new album
project, which is due for release in 2024.
The video features their new interpretation of the Genesis song The Image Blown
Out, which was written in 1967 and first recorded in demo form as one
of the four songs (the others being She Is Beautiful, Try A
Little Sadness and Where The Sour Turns To Sweet) that led
to the band members being offered a publishing and recording contract with
Jonathan King's company Jonjo Music. When Genesis came to record
their debut album From Genesis To Revelation the following
summer, a revised version of The Image Blown Out was amongst the
tracks recorded for potential inclusion but it was ultimately left off the
final release.
It was not until the 1998 release of the retrospective Genesis collection
Archive 1967-75 that the version of the song recorded for From
Genesis To Revelation was finally released, with the track being
sourced from the tape of the original mix of the album without the strings
that was discovered in Ant's attic in 1995.
Thanks to Tom Morgenstern for passing on the details of the video.
Dale Newman: Somewhere Down The Road EP (News date: 24-7-23)
Dale Newman -
vocalist on Ant's album Sides and latterly his "Guitar Tsar"
(maintaining Ant's collection of stringed instruments) - has just
released Somewhere Down The Road, an EP of six new songs
which is now available exclusively on Bandcamp.
His first
release in five years, the songs on Somewhere Down the Road
are drawn from the large amount of material Dale has written since
his last solo album (2018's Dale Newman) and see him
continue todevelop his artistic vision.
On 22nd February 1970 Genesis recorded their first BBC radio session
for the programme Night Ride, a performance that included
three songs (Shepherd, Pacidy and Let Us Now
Make Love) that were never recorded for commercial release.
Those three tracks have subsequently been given an official release,
most recently on the BBC Broadcasts set.
Now for the first time the full story of how the band got the
opportunity to record the session and how the recording of it
survived is told in our new exclusive feature. Former BBC producer Alec Reid talks
about how he came to meet Genesis, his involvement with some of their demo
recordings prior to the Night Ride session and how he gave them the
opportunity to record their music for a broadcast
which would allow them to be heard
by a large audience for the first time.
Gereon
Schoplick, a member of the German "Ant Band" project has recently
released his first CD of solo guitar music. Horizons
includes some pieces of Latin and North American guitar music
alongside some original compositions as well as a version of Steve
Hackett's Horizons, from which the album takes its title.
Gereon has
also recorded four of Ant's guitar pieces for the album - Lute's
Chorus, Postude: End of the Season, Field of
Eternity and an excerpt of Study No. 1 in E Major.
The latter piece, which has not been released to date on any of
Ant's albums, was one of the works included in the now out-of-print
Six Pieces for Guitar collection published in 1980.
Gereon previously recorded a version of the piece for the Ant Band
release A Light on the Hill and has included a new
recording of it on this album.
The Cricketer interview(News date: 20-1-23, updated 20-2-23)
First published in 1921, The Cricketer
is the worlds oldest and best-selling magazine providing coverage of
the game at all levels.
The February issue of the magazine includes
Ant as the subject of the regular interview feature 'Why I love
cricket' in which he talks about the sport and how he has enjoyed it
as both a player with the Send Occasionals (a team he formed with
some friends in the 1970s) and as a spectator. Whilst the
focus of the interview is primarily about cricket, it also covers
Ant's music and his career and makes for an interesting and
wide-ranging read.
The February issue of The Cricketer
is available to
buy online.
The Ant Band: She'll Be Waiting video clip
(News date: 23-12-22)
A Light on the Hill, a tribute to Ant's music and also a
gift from the German Genesis Fan Club for his 70th birthday was
released in December 2021. The
album features fourteen Anthony Phillips
classics re-worked by fourteen musicians from all over Germany in a
virtual alliance called The Ant Band, plus a special guest
appearance from Steve Hackett, who contributed a guitar solo on the
version of F Sharp which formed the basis of The Musical Box.
The proceeds from the sale of the album are being donated to the Corona Kuensterhilfe,
a German charity that supports artists during the COVID crisis.
To mark Ant's birthday this year a video clip of She'll Be Waiting
from the album, which features the
musicians who played on the track has now been released and can be
viewed below. A Light on the Hill can be ordered from
Bandcamp.
The Ant Band: Bonus Bits & Blunders CD(News date: 30-5-22,
updated 1-9-22)
Following the release of A Light on the Hill,
the tribute album to Ant recorded by musicians from all over Germany
in a virtual alliance called The Ant Band, comes a second CD
entitled Bonus Bits & Blunders. As the title
suggests, Bonus Bits & Blunders is a collection of guide
tracks and abandoned ideas from the original album which are
complemented by three rare live recordings from the 2014 Anthony
Phillips Event organised by the German Genesis Fanclub.
Further details about the project can be found on the German Genesis
Fan Club site including a
track-by-track overview.
As with A Light on the Hill, the proceeds from
the sale of the album are being donated once more to the Corona Kuensterhilfe,
a German charity that supports artists during the COVID crisis.
Bonus Bits & Blunders was released on 3rd June in a limited edition of
200 numbered copies, which is now sold out. The digital
release of the album can be ordered from
Bandcamp.
The Ant Band: A Light On The Hill(News date: 30-12-21,
updated 4-1-22)
Out now is A Light on the Hill,
a new album which is a tribute to Ant's music and also a gift from
the German Genesis Fan Club for his 70th birthday on 23rd December
2021.The proceeds from
the sale of the album are being donated to the Corona Kuensterhilfe,
a German charity that supports artists during the COVID crisis.
A Light on the Hill features fourteen Anthony Phillips
classics re-worked by fourteen musicians from all over Germany in a
virtual alliance called The Ant Band, plus a special guest
appearance from Steve Hackett, who contributed a guitar solo on the
version of F Sharp, which formed the basis of The Musical Box.
A Light on the Hill can be ordered now from
Bandcamp
(which ships from Germany).
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.
On Track...Camel (News date:
22-9-21)
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.
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.
David Longdon(News date:
27-11-21)
It is with great sadness that we learned of the untimely death on November
20th of David Longdon, the prodigiously talented front man and wordsmith of
Big Big Train.
Ant says: "It was my privilege to meet David at the Prog Awards in 2016 and
thereafter share occasional and insightful email correspondence with him.
What shone through was his innate sense of decency and humanity. Kind,
compassionate, funny yet modest, he also very nearly became the Genesis
singer after Phil's departure in 1996.
Big Big Train's increasingly brilliant music has deservedly brought them an
ever-growing audience over recent years and I was very flattered that they
chose to do a cover of 'Master of Time'- a masterful, mighty version that
rather left my original in the starting blocks!"
David, 56, leaves a wife and two daughters and our thoughts are with his
family at this very difficult time.
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). Another review has been published on Echoes & Dust
and can be read
here.
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.
Record Collector Genesis feature
(News date: 1-3-21, updated 30-3-21)
The March 2021 issue of the UK magzine Record
Collector (Number 516) includes a 14 page feature
about the early years of Genesis. Ant together with Tony
Banks, Steve Hackett and Richard Macphail have given new interviews
for the article by writer Nick Hasted, which also includes some
interesting early photos and a discography of the band's releases
from 1968 - 72.
Recent reviews and interviews (News date:
12-3-20)
Some more reviews of Strings of Light have recently been published
online and can now be read at
Lmnop.com and
Anne Carlini.com
Goldmine magazine conducted an interview with Ant back in November which has
now been published online and can be read
here. We also have a couple of new interviews here courtesy of the
long-running Genesis web-fanzine
The Waiting Room
which were published in Issue #105: a
chat with Ant from August 2018 and an exclusive interview with
Ant's collaborator Andrew Skeet.
New Genesis biography published
(News date: 26-2-20)
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.
An Evening of Anthony Phillips & Mike Rutherford solo albums
review (News date: 27-1-20)
Ant with the members of the
Rocking Horse Music Club
Back in November 2019 the US group
Rocking Horse Music Club performed two shows at Trading Boundaries
in East Sussex, which included the first ever live performances of
music from Ant's albums. The selection of Ant's music was
complimented by performances of selected songs from Mike
Rutherford's first solo album Smallcreep's Day, which
featured the original vocalist on the album Noel McCalla.
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.
