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Released
  
June 1980

Private Parts and Pieces II Back to the Pavilion (1980)
  
1984 (1981)

Release date
  
28 April 1980

Genre
  
Rock music

Length
  
60:43

Artist
  
Anthony Phillips

Label
  
Passport Records

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Recorded
  
1976-77 at Send Barns and Olympic Studios; Essex Studios, the Farmland; Trident Studios, London and on the VICAR'S moble in the North Sea

Producer
  
Anthony Phillips, Anton Matthews, Rupert Hine

Similar
  
Anthony Phillips albums, Rock music albums

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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.

Contents

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. These tracks feature musical contributions from Mike Rutherford and former King Crimson and Greenslade drummer Andy McCulloch.

The 1990 CD reissue included a new recording of a song that dates from Phillips' time in Genesis called “Lucy: An Illusion”.

In 2010, as part of Voiceprint's re-issue campaign of Phillips' back catalogue, the album was re-issued as a double CD where the first CD was the first in the PP&P series: Private Parts and Pieces. This release is newly re-mastered by Simon Heyworth, retains the bonus track from the previous CD release, and adds new sleeve-notes detailing the recording of the individual tracks.

On September 11, 2015, Esoteric Recordings (a Cherry Red Records label) released a 5-disc box set containing the first four volumes in the Private Parts and Pieces series and a 5th disc of previously unreleased material.

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Track listing

All songs written by Anthony Phillips.

  1. "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
  2. "Lindsay" – 3:50
  3. "K2" – 8:53
  4. "Postlude: End of the Season" – 0:32
  5. "Heavens" – 4:22
  6. "Spring Meeting" – 3:52
  7. "Romany’s Aria" – 0:50
  8. "Chinaman" – 0:41
  9. "Nocturne" – 4:05
  10. "Magic Garden" – 1:56
  11. "Von Runkel’s Yorker Music" – 0:41
  12. "Will O’ the Wisp" – 3:30
  13. "Tremulous" – 1:06
  14. "I Saw You Today" – 4:34
  15. "Back to the Pavilion" – 2:51
  16. "Lucy: An Illusion" – 3:52 (CD reissue bonus track)

Notes:

  • Tracks 7, 8, 10, 11 & 13 were recorded during the Wise After the Event sessions.
  • Personnel

  • Anthony Phillips - 12-String guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, piano, vocals, poly Moog
  • Andy McCulloch - Drums, percussion
  • Mike Rutherford - Bass (1, 4)
  • Rob Phillips - Oboe (15)
  • Mel Collins - Flute (17)
  • Produced by Anthony Phillips, except:

    Tracks 1-5 - Produced by Anthony Phillips & Anton Matthews Tracks 11, 12, 14, 16 - Produced by Rupert Hine

    Songs

    1Scottish Suite: (I) Salmon Leap2:46
    2Scottish Suite: (II) Parting Thistle2:26
    3Scottish Suite: (III) Electric Reaper3:01

    References

    Private Parts and Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion Wikipedia