Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Wind -- Tales
2. Which Way the Wind Blows
3. Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times: Fanfare/Lutes' Chorus/Misty Battleme
4. God If I Saw Her Now
5. Chinese Mushroom Cloud
6. Geese and the Ghost: Pts. 1-2, The
7. Collections
8. Sleepfall: The Geese Fly West
DISC 2:
1. Master of Time
2. Title Inspiration
3. Geese and the Ghost, Pt. 1, The
4. Collections
5. Which Way the Wind Blows
6. Silver Song
7. Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times : Fanfare/Lutes' Chorus/Lutes' Chorus
8. Collections
9. Geese and the Ghost, Pt. 2, The
10. God If I Saw Her Now
11. Sleepfall
12. Silver Song - (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Producer: | Anthony Phillips Band, Anthony Phillips, Michael Rutherford, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Simon Heyworth | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Anthony Phillips (guitar), Mike Rutherford (bass), and Phil Collins (drums, vocals).
Personnel: Anthony Phillips Band (vocals, guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, electric 12-string guitar, classical guitar, dulcimer, piano, celesta, harmonium, organ, Mellotron, keyboards, synthesizer, glockenspiel, drums, timbales, bells, gong, chimes); Phil Collins (vocals, drums); Viv McCauliffe (vocals); Mike Rutherford (guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, electric 12-string guitar, classical guitar, organ, glockenspiel, drums, cymbals, timbales, bells); Nick Hayley (violin); Kirk Trevor, Charlie Martin (cello); Wil Sleath (flute, piccolo, recorder); Jack Lancaster (flute, lyricon); John Hackett (flute); Tom Newman (heckelphone); Rob Phillips, Robin Phillips (oboe); Martin Westlake (timpani).
Audio Mixer: Jonathan Dann.
Audio Remixer: Anton Matthews.
Liner Note Author: Jonathan Dann.
Recording information: Argonaut Galleries (08/1973-10/1976); Island Studios (08/1973-10/1976); Send Barns Studios (08/1973-10/1976).
Anthony Phillips' first post-Genesis solo album was an extension of the pseudo-medieval folk elements found on Trespass, the last of his Genesis albums. Much of this recording sounds like a lost Genesis album, understandable since Phil Collins does a lot of the singing, and Michael Rutherford is present on guitar, bass, and keyboards, and also shares composer credits with him on major parts of this album. Portions of the material here, in fact, seem to have been derived from pieces they composed together in Genesis' early days that proved unsuitable for performance on-stage. Thus, The Geese & the Ghost comes off as a sort of throwback, picking up stylistically where Trespass or Nursery Cryme (check out the second part of the title track) left off nearly six years earlier. "Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times" can still hold the patient listener's attention, as it moves from bold synthesizer-generated fanfares to intimate classical guitar passages into soaring movements for electric guitar, flute, and oboe no less (there are three flutists here, plus one violinist, two cellists, and a pair of oboists, Bob Phillips and Laza Momulovich, who often get placed very prominently in the mix, probably a first on a rock album). The 15-minute two-part title track is very arty in an early-'70s manner, midway between early Genesis and Amazing Blondel (note that neither of those groups still existed in their progressive rock incarnations in 1977), and although it lacks the vibrancy that the former could generate or the impressive musical language or vocalizing of the latter, it is pretty. The CD reissue (which is devoid of instrumental credits) has a demo, "Master of Time," as a bonus. That song, a fey mix of sci-fi and faux-medieval sensibilities, is played -- on acoustic and electric guitars, with piano and no classical musicians added -- with some effort at excitement and vibrancy. ~ Bruce Eder
Anthony Phillips' first post-Genesis solo album was an extension of the pseudo-medieval folk elements found on Trespass, the last of his Genesis albums. Much of this recording sounds like a lost Genesis album, understandable since Phil Collins does a lot of the singing, and Michael Rutherford is present on guitar, bass, and keyboards, and also shares composer credits with him on major parts of this album. Portions of the material here, in fact, seem to have been derived from pieces they composed together in Genesis' early days that proved unsuitable for performance on-stage. Thus, The Geese & the Ghost comes off as a sort of throwback, picking up stylistically where Trespass or Nursery Cryme (check out the second part of the title track) left off nearly six years earlier. "Henry: Portraits from Tudor Times" can still hold the patient listener's attention, as it moves from bold synthesizer-generated fanfares to intimate classical guitar passages into soaring movements for electric guitar, flute, and ...
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