Esoteric Recordings is proud to announce the release of a 5CD clamshell boxed set of the first four albums in the Private Parts & Pieces series. 

Alongside album releases such as The Geese & The Ghost, Wise After the Event, Sides, Slow Dance, 1984 and Field Day, Anthony is also known for the successful series of Private Parts & Pieces albums. Beginning in 1978 the first four volumes featured an extensive range of music recorded by Ant for various projects (going as far back as 1972) and came to be regarded by fans as essential collections of his wide and diverse compositional work.

Now, Anthony Phillips and Jonathan Dann have compiled this 5 disc deluxe set, which gathers together the first four Private Parts & Pieces albums (with a total of 18 bonus tracks), along with an additional 18-track CD of previously unreleased material. Private Parts & Pieces I - IV is the definitive statement on these classic albums.

The set includes a lavish booklet with an essay by Jonathan Dann and fully restores the artwork of the original vinyl releases.

This set due for release on 11th September and is available to pre-order here.

Private Parts & Pieces

1. Beauty and The Beast 

2. Field of Eternity 

3. Tibetan Yak-Music

4. Lullaby - Old Father Time 

5. Harmonium in the Dust (or Harmonious Stratosphere) 

6. Tregenna Afternoons

7. Stranger * 

8. Reaper 

9. Autumnal 

10. Flamingo 

11. Seven Long Years

12. Silver Song *

13. Movement IV from Guitar Quintet *

* Bonus tracks 

Private Parts & Pieces II: Back To The Pavilion

1. Salmon Leap 

2. Parting Thistle 

3. Electric Reaper 

4. Amorphous, Cadaverous and Nebulous 

5. Salmon's Last Sleepwalk 

6. Lindsay 

7. K2 

8. Postlude: End of the Season 

9. Heavens 

10. Spring Meeting 

11. Romany's Aria 

12. Chinaman 

13. Nocturne 

14. Magic Garden 

15. Von Runkel's Yorker Music 

16. Will O' the Wisp 

17. Tremulous

18. I Saw You Today 

19. Back to the Pavilion 

Bonus Track

20. Lucy: An Illusion 

Private Parts & Pieces III: Antiques

1. Motherforest 

2. Ivied Castles  

3. Frosted Windows 

4. Bandido  

5. Church Bells At Sunset  

6. Suite In D Minor: (i) Whirlpools (ii) Cobblestones (iii) Catacombs

7. Danse Nude 

8. Esperansa 

9. Elegy 

10. Otto’s Face 

11. Sand Dunes 

12. Old Wives Tale 

Bonus Tracks

13. Frosted Windows (Variation I) 

14. Esperansa (Alternate mix) 

15. Bandido (Early take) 

16. Old Wives Tale (Take 6) 

17. Suite In D Minor (Alternate version) 

18. Frosted Windows (Variation II) 

19. El Cid 

Private Parts & Pieces IV: A Catch At The Tables

1. Set Piece 

2. Over The Gate

3. Flapjack 

4. Lights On The Hill  

5. Earth Man 

6. Dawn Over The Lake 

7. Bouncer 

8. Eduardo 

9. Heart Of Darkness 

10. The Sea And The Armadillo

11. Sistine 

Bonus Tracks

12. Erotic Strings 

13. A Catch At The Tables 

14. Flapjack (solo version) 

15. Theme from Operation Whale 

Private Parts & Extra Pieces

1. Sea Piece Intro (1978)

2. Prelude 3 (1981)

3. The Princess Waltz (1980)

4. Marionette Vignette (1976)

5. Duchess of Kew (1982)

6. Birdsong Link (1977)

7. Over The Gate (alternate mix) (1980)

8. Sea Sketches (1981)

9. Lines In The Sand (1975)

10. Study in D Minor (1978)

11. Moonshooter Piano (1977)

12. Long Ago (1980) 

13. Lullabye: Old Father Time variation (1976)

14. Theme from Sea Piece (1978)

15. Sistine (alternative piano version) (1983)

16. Armadillo Air (1981)

17. K2 link (1978)

18. Still-Born Love (1977)