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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.
New album release: Private Parts & Pieces XII:
The Golden Hour (News date: 22-3-24, updated 22-5-24)
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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 due for release
on 31st May 2024 and is available to
pre-order now from
Cherry Red and
Amazon.
The album is also available to pre-order on
Bandcamp.
Update: Reviews of the
album have now been published on
Velvet Thunder and by the German Genesis Fan Club (in
English and
German).
A review of the album appears in the current
edition (issue 150) of Prog magazine, which also contains
an interview feature with Ant.
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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.
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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Dale Newman: Wild
Flowers EP
(News date: 24-11-23)
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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 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 to develop his artistic vision.
Wild
Flowers is
available now on Bandcamp where you can also find Dale's
previous EP release
Somewhere Down The Road and his 2018 album release
Dale Newman. All three releases are now also
available as a bundle at a discounted price.
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Wildlife 2 CD
Remastered & Expanded Edition
(News date: 4-11-22, updated 25-4-23)
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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.
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