Esoteric Recordings has announces the release of a new re-mastered and expanded edition of The Living Room Concert by former Genesis guitarist and celebrated solo artist Anthony Phillips.
Originally released in May 1995, The Living Room Concert included highlights of a live solo performance by Anthony that was recorded on March 21st 1993 as part of the Living Room Concert Series for the American Radio program Echoes, a daily program of contemporary instrumental music. The show was broadcast on 120 public radio stations in the United States on June 25, 1993.
For the performance Anthony Phillips performed a set of acoustic guitar and piano drawing primarily on tracks originally released on the albums The Geese and The Ghost, Private Parts and Pieces and A Catch at The Tables, together with two pieces from New England, the eighth volume in the Private Parts & Pieces series and a solo 12-string version of the first movement of a Guitar Quintet that he had composed in 1976, which had subsequently been scored with parts for strings and wind instruments; “Conversation Piece.”
Unavailable on CD for many years, The Living Room Concert has been remastered and expanded to include three previously unreleased tracks recorded for the original broadcast, “Jaunty Roads,” “Let Us Now Make Love” and “Lucy: An Illusion.”
This Esoteric Recordings edition restores the original artwork and includes new liner notes by Anthony Phillips archivist Jon Dann.