Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion

Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion
Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion
Studio album by Anthony Phillips
Released	28 April 1980
Recorded	June 1976–December 1977
Studio	Various Send Barns; (Woking, Surrey); Olympic Studios; (Barnes, London); Essex Studios; The Farmyard; Trident Studios; (Soho, London); Slick Sound;
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	60:43
Label	Passport
Producer	Anthony Phillips; Anton Matthews; Rupert Hine;
Anthony Phillips chronology

Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion is the fifth studio album by English musician and composer Anthony Phillips, released in April 1980 on Passport Records in the United States and Canada. It is the second instalment in his Private Parts & Pieces album series of previously recorded pieces that had been parts of or intended for other projects. Back to the Pavilion includes tracks recorded for Wise After the Event (1978), music during his time as a member of Genesis, and those commissioned as part of an aborted project to set Macbeth to music. It features musical contributions from Andy McCulloch and his former Genesis bandmate Mike Rutherford.

Production

Following the release of Phillips's previous album, Sides, in April 1979, his recording contract with Arista Records came to an end, leaving him without a UK distributor. Phillips recalled that the commercial failure of his second and third commercial albums, Wise After the Event (1978) and Sides, respectively, convinced management to drop him from the label.^[1] Despite the setback, Phillips' deal with the US label Passport Records was still active, but the label refused to issue an advance for new music to be recorded and produced, leaving Phillips the option of putting music out that had already been written and recorded.^[1] He decided that his next release would be the second instalment of his Private Parts & Pieces album series, the first of which was released in 1978.

Music

The music to "Scottish Suite" was originally written in mid-1976 for a "Shakespearean project using all the dialogue from the tragedies with rock music".^[1]

"Romany's Aria", "Chinaman", "Magic Garden", "Von Runkel's Yorker Music", "Tremulous" were recorded during the Wise After the Event sessions.

Release

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

The album was released in the United Kingdom in 1990 by Virgin Records with a bonus track, "Lucy: An Illusion".

In 2010, as part of Voiceprint Records' reissue campaign of Phillips' back catalogue, the album was reissued as a double CD where the first CD was Private Parts & Pieces. This release is newly remastered by Simon Heyworth, retains the bonus track from the previous CD release, and adds new sleeve notes.

On 11 September 2015 Esoteric Recordings released a 5-disc box set containing the first four volumes in the Private Parts & Pieces series and a fifth disc of previously unreleased material.

Track listing

All songs written by Anthony Phillips.^[3]

Side one
No.	Title	Length
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"	15:15
2.	"Lindsay"	3:50
3.	"K2"	8:53
4.	"Postlude: End of the Season"	0:32

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Heavens"	4:22
2.	"Spring Meeting"	3:52
3.	"Romany's Aria"	0:50
4.	"Chinaman"	0:41
5.	"Nocturne"	4:05
6.	"Magic Garden"	1:56
7.	"Von Runkel's Yorker Music"	0:41
8.	"Will O' the Wisp"	3:30
9.	"Tremulous"	1:06
10.	"I Saw You Today"	4:34
11.	"Back to the Pavilion"	2:51

CD bonus track
No.	Title	Length
20.	"Lucy: An Illusion"	3:52

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's 1980 liner notes.^[3]

Music

Anthony Phillips – 12-string guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, piano, vocals, Polymoog
Andy McCulloch – drums, percussion
Mike Rutherford – bass on "Salmon Leap" and "Amorphous, Cadaverous and Nebulous"
Rob Phillips – oboe on "Von Runkel's Yorker Music"
Mel Collins – flute on "Tremulous"

Production

Anthony Phillips – production
Anton Matthews – production
Rupert Hine – production

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Dann, Jonathan; Hewitt, Alan (19 March 1995). "A Trip Back to the Pavilion". AnthonyPhillips.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
^ Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion at AllMusic
^ ^a ^b Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion (Media notes). Anthony Phillips. Passport Records. 1980. PVC 7913.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

[1995int-1] Dann, Jonathan; Hewitt, Alan (19 March 1995). "A Trip Back to the Pavilion". AnthonyPhillips.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2018.

[allmusic-2] Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion at AllMusic

[1980LP-3] Private Parts & Pieces II: Back to the Pavilion (Media notes). Anthony Phillips. Passport Records. 1980. PVC 7913.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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