ARCHIVE COLLECTION: VOLUME I & VOLUME II

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Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 - Archive Collection Volume One: Disc One (75:44)
1. Back to Pluto (1987) (0:30)
2. Promenade (alternate version 1986) (3:41)
3. Take This Heart (demo 1972) (4:13)
4. Beside the Water's Edge (demo 1977) (3:44)
5. The Geese and the Ghost (kiddies mix 1975) (2:01)
6. Which Way the Wind Blows (alternate version 1975) (2:35)
7. Rowey Song (1972) (4:14)
8. Lucy Will (demo 1978) (3:59)
9. God If I Saw Her Now (demo 1970) (3:34)
10. In Memoriam Ad (demo 1970) (3:26)
11. Hunt Song (demo 1977) (6:49)
12. Rule Britannia Closing Theme (1981) (1:08)
13. Exocet (instrumental mix 1982) (3:21)
14. Study in G (1978) (3:49)
15. Holy Deadlock (vocal mix 1978) (1:51)
16. Catch You When You Fall (1978) (3:14)
17. F Sharp (demo 1969) (2:41)
18. The Geese and the Ghost (demo 1969) (6:35)
19. F Sharp 2 (demo 1969) (4:42)
20. Rowey Reprise (1972) (1:19)
21. Slow Dance (single demo 1990) (2:41)
22. The Burnt-Out Cattle Truck Hits the Road (1991) (0:18)
23. The Women Were Watching (instrumental mix 1982) (5:19)

CD 2 - Archive Collection Volume One: Disc Two (70:00)
1. KIP PJ (1978) (0:30)
2. Queen Bettine (demo 1972) (4:16)
3. What Is the Meaning? (demo 1969) (2:43)
4. Farewell (demo 1969) (3:15)
5. Cradle Song (1978) (9:04)
- Tracks 6-18 previously unreleased:
6. Master of Time (instrumental version 1973) (7:26)
7. Lucy: An Illusion (1978) (4:32)
8. Henry Goes to War (guitars only mix 1975) (4:07)
9. Sleepfall Celeste (1976) (1:01)
10. God If I Saw Her Now (alternate version 1975) (4:13)
11. Make the Best of a Bad Situation (1982) (3:43)
12. Regrets (initial orchestral run-through 1977) (5:54)
13. Nightmare Link (1978) (0:52)
14. Greenhouse (instrumental mix 1977) (3:00)
15. In Absentia (demo 1971) (2:39)
16. Stranger (demo 1970) (6:12)
17. Master of Creation (demo 1969) (3:36)
18. Pennsylvania Flickhouse (The Anon demo 1966) (2:57)

CD 3 - Archive Collection Volume Two: Disc One (73:33)
1. Guitar Song (demo 1973) (1:58)
2. The Anthem from Tarka (demo 1988) (3:47)
3. Deep in the Night (demo 1977) (5:47)
4. Bleak House (instrumental mix 1978) (6:12)
5. Our Man in Japan (library piece 1979) (1:19)
6. Child Song (demo 1973) (3:41)
7. Old Wives Tale (solo version 1976) (4:44)
8. Scottish Suite II (i) Leaping Salmon (3:03)
9. Scottish Suite II (ii) The Witching Hour (1:19)
10. Scottish Suite II (iii) Two Truths (1:19)
11. Scottish Suite II (iv) The Letter (1:10)
12. Scottish Suite II (v) Walpurgis Night (1:02)
13. Scottish Suite II (vi) Sweet Reaper (1:01)
14. Scottish Suite II (vii) Why Sinks This Cauldron? (0:44)
15. Scottish Suite II (viii) Her Last Sleepwalk (0:46)
16. Sally (instrumental mix 1982) (4:18)
17. Windmill (demo 1971) (1:26)
18. Tregenna Afternoons (demo 1973) (7:41)
19. Lofty Vaults (library piece 1979) (1:21)
20. Variation on a Theme of Fantomas (demo 1973) (5:03)
21. Picardy Pictures (demo 1972) (4:30)
22. Polar Lights (library piece 1979) (1:33)
23. The Ridolfi Plot (demo 1978) (6:15)
24. Falling for Love (instrumental mix 1982) (3:34)

CD 4 - Archive Collection Volume Two: Disc Two (53:59)
1. Highland Fling (library piece 1979) (1:34)
2. Prelude #1 (1981) (1:36)
3. Siesta (1981) (1:54)
4. Bubble and Squeak (1981) (1:11)
5. Guru (instrumental mix 1982) (4:42)
6. Shady Arbours (1974) (1:46)
7. West Side Alice (1983) (2:59)
8. Vic's Tango (demo 1983) (4:16)
9. Seven Long Years (instrumental mix 1976) (3:02)
10. Romeo and Juliet (library piece 1976) (0:34)
11. I Saw You Today (1978) (4:43)
12. The Anthem from Tarka (alternate mix of demo 1988) (1:01)
13. Quadrille (from Alice) (1983) (2:57)
14. Desert Suite (i) Sand Dance (1:45)
15. Desert Suite (ii) Pipelines (1:07)
16. Desert Suite (iii) End Theme (1:40)
17. Fantomas Opening Theme (film music 1973) (2:30)
18. Sistine (instrumental mix 1982) (3:44)
19. Sisters of Remindum (basic mix 1977/1978) (4:28)
20. Will the Last Man Off the Ice Rink (Please Turn Out the Lights) (1973) (1:19)
21. Finale (instrumental mix 1982) (5:11)

CD 5 - The Masquerade Tapes (57:19)
- All tracks previously unreleased:
1. Overture (2:53)
2. Moon (3:31)
3. Sun (6:35)
4. Tara's Theme (3:25)
5. Craw (2:05)
6. All Horrors of the Night (4:26)
7. Penny Pockets (3:24)
8. Hare B Minor (2:43)
9. Destiny (3:49)
10. Fire (4:43)
11. Yellow Carpet (3:16)
12. Masque Moon (4:27)
13. Moon's Lament for the Sun (4:23)
14. Last of the Heavy Hares (4:02)
15. Only a Dream (3:37)

Total Time 330:35

Line-up / Musicians

- Anthony Phillips / guitars, keyboards, vocals, drumbox, harmonium, bass, celesta

Other musicians featured on a handful of individual tracks, such as:
- Mike Rutherford / bass, 12-string guitar
- Richard Scott / synthesizers
- John Silver / drums
- Rupert Hine / drums & percussion
- Jeremy Gilbert / keyboards
- John G. Perry / bass
- Michael Giles / drums
- Viv McAuliffe / vocals on "God If I Saw Her Now", 1975
- Lindsay Moore / vocals on "Moon's Lament for the Sun"

Releases information

5 CD's with a 60-page booklet: Cherry Red Records, ECLEC52786.
Date of release: January 28, 2022.

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Review by Matti
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The compilations of archive material can be frustrating, but it also depends very much on how to represent it. I certainly feel a special sympathy for this five-disc set of Anthony Phillips. Basically, as the title reveals, it brings together The Archive Collection Volume One (1998) and Archive Collection Volume 2 (2004) but goes beyond that. On the other hand, it's worth pointing out that I wasn't in advance familiar with those compilations, so this expanded set was all "new" to me and my reception may be much warmer than of someone already familiar with the original Archive Collections. Everything on them were previously unreleased, and so is the case with the extra material discovered from Ant's attic in more recent years. Of course the words "previously unreleased" refer, in several cases, to these particular versions -- demos, alternative mixes -- of tracks from Ant's studio albums, but there are plenty of previously unheard compositions as well. For each track there's a background information in the 60-page leaflet. Because of such huge quantity, I choose not to deal much with details in a track-by-track approach. And it's extraordinary how good the overall sonic quality is. Only a few tracks with the emphasis on the historic interest sound less clear.

As we all know, Phillips left Genesis in 1970 and released his debut album The Geese and the Ghost in 1977. Much of the material dates from the years in between and thus helps the listener to form a picture of his initial years and the development as a solo musician. Those Genesis afficionados who have a sweet tooth for the pastoral nature of the band's music (up to, say, 1977) will be delighted by a great deal of what's heard here. It's evident that Anthony Phillips was a crucial original member in shaping the sound and style of Genesis. [In his career he's often questioned about sounding so much like Genesis, and that must have been extremely frustrating for him!] Ant's music is most often instrumental solo pieces for either guitar or piano or other keyboards. These pieces often have the same pastoral feel as one can hear embedded in Genesis' more complex prog compositions. By the way, 'F Sharp' demo from 1969 that Ant recorded on 12-string with Mike Rutherford on bass and Richard Macphail on tambourine contains elements later used in 'The Musical Box'.

Volume One originally had just one full-length disc and only four tracks on the second disc. Here the second disc is expanded to 70 minutes. There are both completely unheard pieces and alternative mixes or demos of album tracks (from The Geese and the Ghost, Wise After the Event, Sides). For example: guitars only mix of 'Henry Goes to War', initial orchestral run-through of 'Regrets' and an instrumental mix of 'Greenhouse'. These moments of familiar stuff are happily in minority after all. The disc ends with a real surprise: a rock'n'roll song 'Pennsylvania Flickhouse' demoed by Ant's pre-Genesis Charterhouse group The Anon in 1966. Five pages of the booklet deal with The Anon. A rare history lesson!

Volume Two was a full 127-minute 2-disc set originally. The fifth disc on this box set is devoted to a previously unreleased project, titled "The Masquerade Tapes", and textwise this is by far the lengthiest part in the booklet. In 1979 Kit Williams released Masquerade, using the picture book format in a new innovative way. In the wake of the book's success there was an idea of a musical adaptation. Rupert Hine started working on it, helped by Ant, but soon Hine was too busy as a producer and Ant continued making music on his own. The 15-part suite recorded mainly in 1980-81 is all composed and played by Ant. Musically it's a very nice addition to the box set. Instrumental, apart from a beautiful song sung by Lindsey Moore.

In short, this finely edited box set is a cornucopia that really deepens the picture of this fascinating musician. I personally would have enjoyed a chronological order too, but that's not a big deal.

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