Anthony Phillips – Sail The World – Remastered & Expanded (Esoteric Recordings, 2025)
Leave it to multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Anthony Phillips, the founding Genesis guitarist turned soundtrack craftsman, to transform a yacht race into an immersive, easy listening musical expedition. Sail the World, originally composed in 1994 as the soundtrack for the UK television coverage of the Whitbread Round the World Race, returns in 2025 with a definitive 2CD remastered and expanded edition from Esoteric Recordings.
Phillips’s work on Sail the World oscillates between upbeat pop and tropical instrumentals with catchy beats and more appealing cinematic ambient, orchestral and new age cinematic electronic pieces.
An illustrated booklet featuring a newly commissioned essay by Jon Dann offers insightful context.
Musicians: Anthony Phillips on keyboards, guitars, drum machine; Joji Hirota on percussion (7,21).
Release date: 25 April 2025
Track listing
Disc One
1 Opening Theme
2 Fast Work
3 Dark Seas
4 Cool Sailing
5 Wildlife Choir
6 I Wish This Would Never End
7 Salsa I
8 Roaring Forties
9 Lonely Whales
10 Icebergs
11 Majestic Whales
12 In the Southern Ocean
13 The Fremantle Doctor
14 Long Way from Home
15 Wildlife Flotilla
16 Big Combers
17 Cool Sailing II
18 Cape Horn
19 Amongst Mythical Birds
20 Salsa II
21 Into the Tropics
22 In the Doldrums
23 Heading for Home & Victory Bonus tracks
24 Paradise
25 Eastern Magic
26 Closing Theme
Disc Two
Previously unreleased bonus tracks
1 Opening Theme (original version)
2 The Dream Race
3 Starboard Drift
4 Epic Whales
5 World Piece
6 Temple
7 Ocean Life
8 Cool Sailing (alternate mix)
9 Playmaker
10 Another Day
11 Fast Work (alternate mix)
12 Journey’s End
13 Tokyo Nights
14 Paradise (alternate mix)
15 Heading for Home & Victory (alternate mix)
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