Private Parts and Pieces

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Private Parts and Pieces
Studio album by Anthony Phillips
Released January 1979 (U.S.)
April 1979 (UK)
Recorded 1972-76
Genre Rock
Length 56:46
Label Passport Records, Arista Records, Virgin Records
Producer Anthony Phillips, Harry Williamson
Anthony Phillips chronology
Sides
(1979)		 Private Parts and Pieces
(1979)		 Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion
(1980)

Private Parts and Pieces is officially the fourth (though technically the third) solo album from guitarist Anthony Phillips. Unlike his previous releases, this one was assembled as a collection of instrumental music, rather than as an explicit attempt at a commercial album. It was first released in the U.S. and Canada in January 1979. The April 1979, UK release was a limited edition sold with the first 5,000 copies of Sides. Although the album itself came at an awkward time for Phillips, whose contract with Arista had run its course, the non-commercial Private Parts and Pieces format proved successful or useful enough to him to become a series of albums in its own right.

While Phillips had previously credited a good deal of his non-guitar work under pseudonyms, on this album the credits were straightforward. Peter Cross did the artwork for the album.

The 1990 CD reissue of Private Parts and Pieces included two new, solo recordings of material that dates from Phillips' time in Genesis.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Anthony Phillips except where indicated

  1. "Beauty and the Beast" – 4:08
  2. "Field of Eternity" (Anthony Phillips/Mike Rutherford) – 5:10
  3. "Tibetan Yak-Music" – 6:09
  4. "Lullaby — Old Father Time" – 1:15
  5. "Harmonium in the Dust" – 2:29
  6. "Tregrenna Afternoons" – 7:49
  7. "Stranger" – 6:08 (CD reissue bonus track)
  8. "Reaper" – 7:38
  9. "Autumnal" – 5:57
  10. "Flamingo" – 11:06
  11. "Seven Long Years" – 2:58
  12. "Silver Song" (demo) (Anthony Phillips/Mike Rutherford) – 3:19 (CD reissue bonus track)

[edit] Personnel

  • Anthony Phillips: 12 String Guitar, Classical Guitar, Piano, Electric Guitar, Pin Piano, Harmonium, Vocals
  • Harry Williamson: "Graphics" on 3

[edit] Miscellanea

Though Private Parts and Pieces is officially considered Anthony Phillips' fourth album, it was actually released in North America a few months before Sides was released anywhere. In addition, the cover of Sides makes references to the covers of previous works, with Private Parts and Pieces clearly being the third (after The Geese And The Ghost and Wise After The Event).