Anthony audio genesis2/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I’d like to have compared the packaging to my old vinyl copy but my vinyl and deck are in the loft, after successive house moves and several decades. It comes as a boxed set of three discs, two CDs and one DVD, numbered in such a way that the format is noted but not emphasised. There have been a few re-releases over the years but this latest boxed edition of The Geese And The Ghost from Esoteric Recordings is a rather splendid little package. The music on this album also feels a good deal more abstract. The Geese And The Ghost shares its DNA with the band who many of us are familiar with, but because some of the the songs have older roots than post-Gabriel Genesis, The Geese and the Ghost feels more like snapshots from their ancestry rather than music from a contemporary. Ties to the band that he helped create and the guest appearances of prominent members of Genesis will prompt inevitable comparisons with the early Genesis albums. By the time it was released we’d had a chance to witness the evolution of Genesis and A Trick Of The Tail was out and doing well. But Genesis were a busy band and Mike Rutherford’s commitments meant that work on the album was delayed. I have imagined them sitting together in the early days, imagining a writing partnership to rival Lennon and McCartney. Regrettably, Anthony Phillips dropped off my personal radar as the ’80s arrived and I moved away from South Wales to forge an early adult existence in London to a backdrop of The Cure and Japan and other post-punk bands, so I confess that my knowledge of his extensive back catalogue probably doesn’t do him due justice.Īnthony started writing some of the songs on this album in collaboration with Mike Rutherford when he was still a member of Genesis. ![]() Over the years, and to my shame, I had pieced together a kind of composite memory of Anthony Phillips’s later 1970s albums Wise After the Event (1978), Private Parts and Pieces (1978) and Sides (1979). I’m taking a look at the latest reissue of Anthony Phillips’s 1977 debut solo record, The Geese And The Ghost. ![]()
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