Slow Dance

by Anthony Phillips

Overview

Mike Oldfield, watch out. This all-instrumental album, consisting of two long pieces ("Slow Dance Parts 1 and 2") that mix new age sounds with rock, crosses into territory staked out most successfully by the tubular bell-ringer, and comes off as sort of Windham Hill with a beat. This material features clarinet, oboe, flute, trumpet, harp, and percussion as well as guitar, and it does sort of resemble the spacy synthesizer interludes and bridges found as parts of the longer pieces on Genesis's progressive-era albums. It isn't as vacuous as mere "ambient" sound, and some of the shifts in beat and tone are bracing and surprising, but Slow Dance also takes a long time to get where it's going. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	03/29/2024
Label:	Esoteric Recordings
UPC:	5013929469051
Rank:	31958

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Anthony Phillips   Primary Artist
John Owen Edwards   Conductor
Michael Cox   Flute,Piccolo
Frank Ricotti   Percussion
Julie Allis   Harp
Ian Hardwick   Oboe
Ralph Bernascone   Conductor
Torbjorn Hultmark   Trumpet
Martin Robertson   Clarinet
Ian Thomas   Drums

Technical Credits

Anthony Phillips   Reissue Compiler,Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer
Simon Heyworth   Producer,Mastering,Remastering,Mixing,Engineer
Phil Smee   Package Design
Gavyn Wright   Leader
Ray Shulman   Authoring
Jonathan Dann   Mixing,Liner Notes,Pre-Production,Reissue Compiler,Master Tape Research
Richard Whittaker   Digital Transfers
Mike Ross   Engineer
Andy Miles   Mixing,Mastering
Vicky Powell   Coordination
Mark Powell   Coordination
John Gibbons   Mixing,Engineer
Steve Murray   Sleeve Design