Private Parts and Pieces IV: A Catch at the Tables is an album by Anthony Phillips

Anthony Phillips

Anthony Edwin "Ant" Phillips is an English multi instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of the band Genesis. He played guitar and sang backing vocals until leaving in 1970, following the recording of their second album, Trespass...

, released by Passport Records in April 1984. Like the first two albums in the "Private Parts and Pieces" series, the tracks on A Catch at the Tables were a collection of experiments, improvisations, and music written for other projects.

Two bonus tracks were added when the album was reissued on compact disc

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 by Virgin Records

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 in 1991. The first one, "Erotic Strings" was originally incidental music for the play "Tropical Moon over Dorking," which starred Pauline Collins

Pauline Collins

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Track listing

All tracks written by Anthony Phillips.

1. "Aboretum Suite:"
   1. "Set Piece"–2:06
   2. "Over the Gate"–2:06
   3. "Flap Jack"–2:25
   4. "Lights on the Hill"–5:26
2. "Earth Man"–4:36
3. "Dawn over the Lake"–10:50
4. "Bouncer"–3:05
5. "Eduardo"–9:44
6. "Heart of Darkness"–3:20
7. "The Sea and the Armadillo"–4:58
8. "Sistine"–3:55
9. "Erotic Strings"–1:05 (CD bonus track)
10. "A Catch at the Tables"–2:57 (CD bonus track)

Personnel

• Anthony Phillips: Twelve string guitar
  Twelve string guitar
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  , eight string guitar
  Eight string guitar
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  , polymoog
  Polymoog
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  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , drumbox
  Drum machine
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  , mellotron
  Mellotron
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  , chiranga
  Charango
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  , vocals on (11)
• Mark Emmey: bugle
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   (11)
• Judd Lander: bagpipes
  Bagpipes
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   and harmonica
  Harmonica
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  (11)

Produced by Anthony Phillips, except "Sistine," which was produced by Trevor Vallis, Anthony Phillips & Richard Scott