Radio Clyde: Expanded & Remastered Edition

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the release of an Expanded and Re-mastered Edition of Radio Clyde.

In order to promote the release of his second solo album Wise After The Event, Ant travelled to various locations in both Europe and the UK to give radio and press interviews.  For the UK radio interviews on this promo tour, Ant took a guitar with him with a view to performing one or two songs live in the studio and this arrangement was taken further with the offer from the Glasgow-based Radio Clyde to record an hour-long session of songs and instrumental pieces for later broadcast.  Whilst variable quality off-air recordings of the show subsequently circulated amonst fans, the discovery of a copy of the session in Ant's archives afforded the opportunity for an official CD release in 2003.

Originally released in 1995, Gypsy Suite is a 1978 recording of a four-part suite for two guitars inspired by Ant and Harry's explorations of different tunings. 

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 from Cherry Red and Amazon.

Between 1994 and 2000, Ant and Joji Hirota collaborated on a number of outstanding soundtracks for wildlife television programmes in the award-winning Survival series.  In addition, Anthony also wrote and recorded the music for a programme in the BBC series The Natural World.  First released in 2007, Wildlife features the highlights from these richly atmospheric and evocative soundtracks.  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.

Wildlife has now been newly remastered and expanded to a 2 CD set featuring an additional disc of soundtrack and library music pieces recorded by Ant both in collaboration with Joji and on his own. Also released for the first time is 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 and is a welcome re-issue of a wonderful collection of music by two imaginative and respected musicians.

Wildlife is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon.

The Living Room Concert - Remastered and Expanded Digipak Edition

A newly remastered and expanded edition of the live radio session that Ant recorded in March 1993 as part of the Living Room Concert series for Echoes, a daily US radio programme of contemporary instrumental music.

Featuring live performances of tracks from The Geese & The Ghost, Private Parts & Pieces and A Catch At The Tables, The Living Room Concert also includes Conversation Piece, a solo 12-string version of the first movement of a Guitar Quintet which Ant composed in 1976.

This Remastered and Expanded Edition of the album includes three extra tracks recorded for the original broadcast and new liner notes.

The physical release of The Living Room Concert is now out of print.

 A 4 disc (3 CDs & 1 DVD) deluxe edition re-release of Ant's third solo album Sides.

This deluxe edition features a new stereo mix of the album, a newly re-mastered version of the original album stereo mix and a CD of demos, out-takes and extras. The set also includes a DVD (NTSC - Region Free) of a new 5.1 Surround Sound Mix of the album by Simon Heyworth and Andy Miles.

Released as a clamshell set, this deluxe edition includes a poster and a lavishly illustrated booklet with a new essay by Jonathan Dann featuring interviews with Anthony Phillips, Dale Newman and the album's producer Rupert Hine.

The physical release of the deluxe edition of Sides is now out-of-print.

Available as a download from Amazon and in streaming form on Spotify and Apple Music.

 A 4 disc (3 CDs & 1 DVD) deluxe edition re-release of Ant's second solo album Wise After The Event.

This deluxe edition features a new stereo mix of the album, a newly re-mastered version of the original album stereo mix and a CD of demos, out-takes and extras. The set also includes a DVD (NTSC - Region Free) of a new 5.1 Surround Sound Mix of the album by Simon Heyworth and Andy Miles.

Released as a clamshell set, this deluxe edition includes a poster and a lavishly illustrated booklet with a new essay by Jonathan Dann featuring interviews with Anthony Phillips, John G Perry and the album's producer Rupert Hine.

The set is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon

A deluxe clamshell box set release of the first four albums in the Private Parts & Pieces series (Private Parts & Pieces, Back To The Pavilion, Antiques and A Catch At The Tables) along with Private Parts & Extra Pieces, an extra CD of previously unreleased material recorded between 1975 and 1983.

Released as a five disc clamshell set, Private Parts & Pieces IV includes an illustrated booklet with detailed notes and essay chronicling the recording of each of the albums.

The set is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon

The Definitive Edition re-release of Ant's debut solo album The Geese & The Ghost is out now.

The album itself has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes by recording engineer and co-producer of the original album Simon Heyworth and the release also includes a stunning new 5.1 Surround Sound mix of the album by Simon in collaboration with Andy Miles.  In addition, a second CD features demos and early versions of the tracks on the album alongside the planned single version of Silver Song from 1973 and the previously unreleased Only Your Love.  Both tracks feature Phil Collins as vocalist.

Released as a three disc (2 CD & 1 DVD) clamshell set, the Definitive Edition includes a poster and an illustrated booklet with a essay chronicling the recording of the album.

The set is available to order from Cherry Red and Amazon.

Harvest of the Heart is a deluxe five CD boxed set with an extensive illustrated booklet which celebrates Ant's rich and diverse musical heritage by featuring a comprehensive selection of recordings made between 1969 and the present day, drawn from his many albums.  In addition the set includes ten previously unreleased tracks, the 1973 recording of Silver Song (featuring Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford) and the rare track Compression by Mike Rutherford, which features Ant on keyboards.  

With a total playing time of over six hours, Harvest of the Heart provides a definitive overview of Ant's career as a recording artist.

The physical release of Harvest of the Heart is now out of print.

The audio content of the boxed set is available as a download from Amazon and in streaming form on Spotify and Apple Music.  Due to licencing issues, 12 of the tracks from the original physical release (Silver Song, Compression and the ten extra tracks that were exclusive to the set) are not available on the download edition.

Tarka

Originally released in 1988, Ant and Harry Williamson's collaborative release Tarka was re-issued in 1996 with some additional music and the new cover design shown here. 

Live Radio Sessions

A CD of 'live' versions of tracks from The Meadows of Englewood recorded by Ant and Guillermo Cazenave for broadcast on Spanish radio.

Ant's collaborative release with Guillermo Cazenave which was re-issued most recently (in 2013) as a 15th Anniversary edition which combined the original CD release with a DVD of The Meadows of Englewood video.  

The album was recorded at Ant's studio in 1995 and includes co-written pieces alongside solo pieces by both Ant and Guillermo.  The Meadows of Englewood video, which was taped in Barcelona in May 1997 and released on VHS the following year, features mimed performances of four tracks from the album.

The physical release of this title is now out of print

The audio content from the CD is available as a download from Amazon and in streaming form on Spotify and Apple Music

The first commercial release of Ahead of the Field, an album of library music that Ant was commissioned to compose by music publishers De Wolfe in late 1984.  Ant composed a number of tracks for the album and scored a selection of them which were then recorded by some top session musicians (under the name X-Cess) in the spring of 1985, with the emphasis being placed on then-contemporary electronic drum and synthesiser sounds.  Ant subsequently overdubbed some extra parts on the tracks which were then issued by De Wolfe as a vinyl album for use by broadcasters and film-makers on their Rouge Music label.

Ahead of the Field is primarily a showcase of Ant as a composer rather than a performer.