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Private Parts and Pieces IV: A Catch at the Tables

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290:"Dawn over the Lake" was recorded in March 1981. It is more experimental and improvisational that was recorded in a more spontaneous manner, with Phillips playing his 12-string guitar with unusual tuning with a Roland drum machine. He had set the machine to produce a straightforward rock drum pattern, but slowed it down to the point where it "doesn't sound like that at all". Phillips developed the track with no set intention on including it on the album. "I was just mucking around, so the track itself is edited down and the edits are not perfect but I think it's strongly atmospheric." Upon the album's release he was worried that the piece ran too long. 267: 326:. "A Catch at the Tables" was recorded at his London studio named Vic's Place and completed in 1990 after Phillips had decided not to have a title track on the album, but wrote it for the 1990 reissue. It was named after the front cover painting by Ed Tanner. Phillips revealed that its actual title is "A Catch for the Tables" but he had misheard Tanner, but also thought the "at" added some mystery to the title as well as a double entendre with casinos at 302:. It was originally intended for that album, as with "Sistine", but they were left off because Phillips felt they "didn't fit in". It was put together in the studio on his own one morning before he had breakfast. Conversely, "Eduardo" was completed during Phillips's last days while living near Woking, and features his 8-string Rudloff guitar. "Heart of Darkness" and "The Sea and the Armadillo" were also put down during this period. 385: 380: 375: 370: 365: 245:, Surrey, and home studio named Englewood Studios in Clapham, London following his move there in the early 1980s. Phillips received assistance from his friend Dennis Quinn in naming many of the tracks on the album, having played the demo versions to him. Previous albums by Phillips included the artwork of English author and illustrator 283:
to a warm fire and glorious tea". The last section, "Lights on the Hill", was a fully arranged song at first, of which producer Richard Scott had used a version of it for his own projects. The original instrumental version was recorded, and the positive reaction from various people encouraged Phillips to include it on his next
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in Surrey. The liner notes detail a humorous description of the piece: "The music attempts to describe the social occasion as troops of bizarre-clad hikers set out in high spirits, armed with footballs and frisbees, upset the neighbours and fall in the lake before trudging their bedraggled way back
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album series which showcase more "generic" tracks, including rough cuts, demos, and outtakes. This process began in the spring of 1983 after
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All songs composed, performed, and produced by Anthony Phillips except "Sistine", produced by Phillips, Richard Scott, and Trevor Vallis.
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was recorded between October 1979 and June 1982 at two locations: Send Barns, the studio Phillips had set up at his parents’ house in
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due to other projects. Instead, Phillips sought permission to use a painting by Ed Tanner which had a quality to it that he liked.
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had been recorded. An early idea that Phillips had at this stage was to construct a suite consisting of short pieces from various
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include previously unreleased material. "Erotic Strings" dates from 1985, and was originally written as
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projects he had been involved with, but this was dropped in favour of other tracks.
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Private Parts and Pieces IV: A Catch at the Tables — 1990 reissue bonus tracks
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is the ninth studio album by English multi-instrumentalist and composer
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released a 5-CD box set containing the first four volumes in the
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Send Barns, Woking, Surrey and Englewood Studios, Clapham, London
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in 1982, the album did not see a domestic release until 1990 by
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in the United States and Canada. As Phillips's contract with
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In October 1983, Phillips released his eighth studio album
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Private Parts & Pieces VII: Slow Waves, Soft Stars
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as the fourth instalment to his generic album series,
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Index


Studio album
Anthony Phillips
Genre
Acoustic
electronic
instrumental
Label
Passport
Producer
Anthony Phillips
Anthony Phillips
Invisible Men
Anthony Phillips
Passport Records
Virgin Records
Invisible Men
Passport Records
library music
Woking
Peter Cross

Winkworth Arboretum
Winkworth Arboretum
incidental music
Pauline Collins
Monte Carlo
Allmusic
Passport Records
RCA Records

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