Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion

Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion is the second "generic" album by Anthony Phillips. The album is composed of previously recorded pieces that had been parts of or intended for other projects. The album was released at a time when Phillips was between his Arista Records and RCA recording contracts, but still had a distribution deal with U.S. label Passport Records.

Several tracks were instrumental links recorded for Wise After the Event (1978), when that release was still conceived as an album coupled with an EP. The "Scottish Suite" brings together work originally commissioned as part of an aborted project to set Macbeth to music.

The 1990 CD reissue included a new recording of a song that dates from Phillips' time in Genesis.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Anthony Phillips except where indicated

"Scottish Suite:
(i) "Salmon Leap" – 2:46
(ii) "Parting Thistle" – 2:26
(iii) "Electric Reaper" – 3:03
(iv) "Amorphous, Cadaverous and Nebulous" – 4:53
(v) "Salmon’s Last Sleepwalk" – 2:07
"Lindsay" – 3:50
"K2" – 8:53
"Postlude: End of the Season" – 0:32
"Heavens" – 4:22
"Spring Meeting" – 3:52
"Romany’s Aria" – 0:50
"Chinaman" – 0:41
- 11-12 originally recorded for Wise After the Event
"Nocturne" – 4:05
"Magic Garden" – 1:56
- recorded during the Wise After the Event sessions
"Von Runkel’s Yorker Music" – 0:41
- originally recorded for Wise After the Event
"Will O’ the Wisp" – 3:30
"Tremulous" – 1:06
- recorded during the Wise After the Event sessions
"I Saw You Today" – 4:34
"Back to the Pavilion" – 2:51
"Lucy: An Illusion" (Anthony Phillips/Mike Rutherford) – 3:52 (CD reissue bonus track)
- new recording of an unreleased Genesis song

[edit] Personnel

Anthony Phillips: 12 String guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, piano, vocals, polymoog
Andy McCulloch: Drums and percussion
Mike Rutherford: Bass (1, 4)
Rob Phillips: Oboe (15)
Mel Collins: Flute (17)