The Geese and the Ghost
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| Studio album by Anthony Phillips | ||||
| Released | March 1977 | |||
| Recorded | October 1974–October 1976 | |||
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| Length | 47:19 | |||
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The Geese & the Ghost is the first studio album by the English guitarist Anthony Phillips, released in March 1977 on Hit & Run Music in the United Kingdom and Passport Records in the United States. It was originally intended to be an album by Phillips and his former Genesis band mate Mike Rutherford, but Rutherford's difficulty in devoting time to the project ended the idea. The album reached number 191 on the Billboard 200.
In 1969, just prior to an extensive tour for Genesis, Phillips and bassist Mike Rutherford wrote a collection of music, committing the material to tape to preserve a record of the work. Among the tracks was a piece entitled "D Instrumental", a song that would eventually become the album's title track. Following his departure from Genesis in 1970, Phillips wrote many of the songs that would ultimately constitute the rest of the album. He started to take a greater interest in classical music. At one point he listened to a piece by Jean Sibelius and had "one of those strange revelations - I was terribly limited" and felt "narrow as a musician". His guitar playing, he thought, also lacked enough technique. To further develop his musical abilities, Phillips spent time learning to play the piano, classical guitar, and orchestration, which lasted for four years. During this time, Phillips kept in contact with Rutherford. At one point, the two agreed to produce a joint album of music based on pieces the two had developed on 12-string guitar before and during Phillips's time in Genesis.
Development for the album was put aside until 1973 when he re-connected with Rutherford to work on small projects including a prospective single release, "Silver Song"/"Only Your Love", that included Genesis drummer Phil Collins on vocals. This material convinced Genesis label Charisma Records to front the money for initial work on an album to begin.
Always intending the album project to be a collaboration with Rutherford, Phillips found it difficult to schedule time when the two could work together, as Rutherford's Genesis schedule was proving hectic during the recording of their double album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. In 1974, an injury to Phillips' Genesis successor, Steve Hackett, provided the opening Phillips and Rutherford needed and a great deal of work on the album was recorded in October of that year. While Rutherford rejoined Genesis, Phillips continued work on the album until another break allowed them to continue work on the album in the summer of 1975.
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