Anthony Phillips/Harry Williamson - Tarka

Tarka was a difficult delivery. Guitarist/keyboardist Harry Williamson's father is Henry Williamson, author of the novel Tarka the Otter. The idea to write an orchestral cycle around the book was planted in 1975 when musician and ex-Genesis member Anthony Phillips lived for a while in the geographical space described in the tale. From that point, the music was written, submitted for a movie soundtrack, half-recorded, dropped, requested for another project, augmented, finished recorded, released on CD in 1996 by PRT Records, which went out of business immediately after, and finally made largely available by Blueprint in October 2001. Read More