Private Parts and Pieces VI: Ivory Moon 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 1986. The album collects several of his pieces written for solo piano from 1971-1985. The title owes a debt to Monty Python

Monty Python

Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...

's variety of humour.

Like his previous "Private Parts and Pieces" albums, Ivory Moon is a collection meant to showcase the range of Phillips' compositional and musical abilities, rather than a series of new pieces written with an album already in mind. With the exception of his playing keyboards on Mike Rutherford

Mike Rutherford

Michael John Cleote Crawford Rutherford is an English musician. He is a founding member of Genesis, initially as a bassist and backup vocalist. In later incarnations of Genesis, he assumed the role of lead guitarist. He is one of only two constant members in Genesis . He also fronts Mike + The...

's Smallcreep's Day

Smallcreep's Day (album)

Smallcreep's Day is the first solo album by Genesis bassist and guitarist Mike Rutherford. The title suite is based on the dark, surrealist novel of the same name by Peter Currell Brown. It was released in 1980...

(1980), this was the first time Phillips had been on an album that did not feature his guitar work to some extent.

The album cover is a work entitled "Sea-Dogs Motoring" by Peter Cross

Peter Cross

Peter Cross is a British illustrator.He first worked as a technical illustrator for Hawker Siddeley.His style features lifelike drawings of British wildlife, in cartoon-like situations...

, based on an impression of Leith Hill

Leith Hill

Leith Hill to the south west of Dorking, Surrey, England, reaches above sea level, the highest point on the Greensand Ridge, and is the second highest point in south-east England, after Walbury Hill near Hungerford, West Berkshire, high....

 Tower in Dorking

Dorking

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, England

England

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. As per most Anthony Phillips albums, the liner notes to Ivory Moon contain a running joke reference to Phillips's friend Ralph Bernascone: "Ralph Bernascone appears courtesy of Ravaged Records".

The photography on the album is credited to "Pierror Krols and Vic Stench of Thrombosis". This is also a running joke: "Vic Stench" is one of Phillips' pseudonyms.

Ivory Moon was reissued on compact disc

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 by Virgin Records

Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

 in 1991, and by Blueprint Records in 1996. These reissues include a new recording, based on Phillips' original September 1968 piano version, of the Genesis

Genesis (band)

Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...

 song "Let Us Now Make Love".

Track listing

• All tracks written by Anthony Phillips, except where noted.

1. "Suite: Sea-Dogs Motoring"
   i) "Sunrise Over Sienna" – 3:18
2. ii) "Basking Shark" – 5:07
3. iii) "Sea-Dog's Air" – 2:34
4. iv) "Safe Havens" – 1:09
5. "Tara's Theme" – 3:22
   • from Masquerade
6. "Winter's Thaw" – 9:35
7. "The Old House" – 15:17
8. "Moonfall" (Anthony Phillips / Rupert Hine
   Rupert Hine
   Rupert Neville Hine is an English musician, songwriter and prolific record producer, having produced albums for artists including Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, The Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins, Stevie Nicks, Chris de Burgh, Suzanne Vega, Rush, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, and ...
   
   ) – 4:00
   • from Masquerade
9. "Rapids" – 8:25
10. "Let Us Now Make Love" – 6:31 (CD bonus track)
    • solo piano version of a Genesis song