Forty-five years have passed since “1984” shifted many a follower’s perspective of Anthony Phillips as performer, if not composer, as the artist primarily seen as a guitar player issued a keyboard-based album. And even though it wouldn’t be his last record of such a shape, with “Ivory Moon” and "Soirée" – two volumes of Ant’s “Private Parts & Pieces” series – found Phillips move to an acoustic instrument, any new platter of this sort still surprises his listeners. No doubt the same emotions will be reserved for the veteran’s forthcoming opus, titled “Gemini – Pieces For Piano” and scheduled for release on April 10th.
Comprised of tracks preserved for posterity between October 2022 and October 2025, the two-CD recital whose title refers to a tune Anthony came up with for the pianist Martha Argerich, and developed into a duet with Gabriele Baldocci, which premiered in 2018 and was brought to the public a few times since then. It’s the first time, however, that aficionados will get to hear this music in the writer’s version.
Gemini – Pieces For Piano
CD 1:
1. River Of Serenity
2. Sanctum
3. Oblique
4. Testament
5. Twister
6. Solitude
7. Kaleidoscope
8. Spring Fair
9. Gravitas
10. Piece For C.S.
11. Odyssey Of A Somnambulant
12. Confessional
13. Penitence
14. Lost Love
15. Cradle Of Night
16. Golden Days
17. Empyrean
18. Dying Star
19. Forest Green
20. Memoir
CD 2:
1. Gemini
2. Hymnal
3. Frost Flower
4. Pablo Farceur
5. Labyrinth
6. Sanctity
7. Fathomless Caverns
8. Perdita
9. Faded Glory
10. Marking Time
11. Lady Moon
12. Sundowner
13. Canticle
14. Crossed Lines
15. Chansons Sans Mots (i)
16. Chansons Sans Mots (ii)
17. Chansons Sans Mots (iii)
18. Chansons Sans Mots (iv)
19. Chansons Sans Mots (v)
20. Chansons Sans Mots (vi)
21. In Repose
22. Sliding Doors
23. Pool Of Memory
24. Into The Firmament
