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Anthony Phillips - The Geese & The Ghost (1977/2015)
 FLAC 2.0 tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time - 49:33 minutes | 572 MB
DVD-A to Hi-Res FLAC - Source: Esoteric Recordings (Definitive Edition '2015)

 The definitive edition of the 1977 seminal debut solo album by GENESIS founding member Anthony Phillips. The music album could arguably be seen to have begun life as far back as 1969, but in essence it was the result of nearly four years hard work by Anthony, in collaboration with Mike Rutherford (who co-wrote three of the pieces on the record), beginning with a series of recordings made on TEAC 4 track tape recorders, progressing to sessions on the barge studio of engineer Tom Newman. Enlisting the assistance of Phil Collins, John Hackett, Viv Mcauliffe, Jack Lancaster and many others, The Geese and the Ghost finally appeared in 1977 in America on the Passport label and in the UK on the Hit & Run imprint. Lauded by many as a supreme achievement, this definitive of The Geese and the Ghost has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes by Simon Heyworth and includes a stunning new 5.1 Surround Sound mix of the album by Andy Myles and Simon Heyworth.


 Anthony Phillips' first post-Genesis solo album was an extension of the pseudo-medieval folk elements found on Trespass, the last of his Genesis albums. Much of this recording sounds like a lost Genesis album, understandable since Phil Collins does a lot of the singing, and Michael Rutherford is present on guitar, bass, and keyboards, and also shares composer credits with him on major parts of this album. Portions of the material here, in fact, seem to have been derived from pieces they composed together in Genesis' early days that proved unsuitable for performance on-stage. Thus, The Geese & the Ghost comes off as a sort of throwback, picking up stylistically where Trespass or Nursery Cryme (check out the second part of the title track) left off nearly six years earlier. "Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times" can still hold the patient listener's attention, as it moves from bold synthesizer-generated fanfares to intimate classical guitar passages into soaring movements for electric guitar, flute, and oboe no less (there are three flutists here, plus one violinist, two cellists, and a pair of oboists, Bob Phillips and Laza Momulovich, who often get placed very prominently in the mix, probably a first on a rock album) -- but these movements would work better if they weren't quite so repetitive. The 15-minute two-part title track is hopeless -- gorgeous, luscious, languid, and utterly pointless in terms of presenting ideas of any worth or resolving them in any serious way; this is the sort of material that first-year composition students turn in as exercises, but only in the fading glow of the prog rock boom would it see the light of day on a commercial release. It's very arty in an early-'70s manner, midway between early Genesis and Amazing Blondel (note that neither of those groups still existed in their progressive rock incarnations in 1977), without the vibrancy that the former could generate or the impressive musical language or vocalizing of the latter. What Phillips failed to recognize, or couldn't emulate, was the fact that Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, and other bigger-than-footnote prog rock outfits always made sure their music was exciting, as well as pretty and complex.  


Tracklist

 01 - Wind--Tales
 02 - Which Way The Wind Blows
 03 - Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times: I. Fanfare
 04 - Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times: II. Lutes' Chorus
 05 - Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times: III. Misty Battlements
 06 - Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times: IV. Lute's Chorus Reprise
 07 - Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times: V. Henry Goes To War
 08 - Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times: VI. Death Of A Knight
 09 - Henry: Portraits From Tudor Times: VII. Triumphant Return
 10 - God If I Saw Her Now
 11 - Chinese Mushroom Cloud
 12 - The Geese And The Ghost, Part I
 13 - The Geese And The Ghost, Part II
 14 - Collections
 15 - Sleepfall: The Geese Fly West

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