The Ant Band – From Genesis To Reimagination – info

Following their tribute album A Light On The Hill (2021) for Anthony Phillips, The Ant Band are releasing their second album (not counting the bonus album Bonus Bits & Blunders from 2022). This time, they are dedicating themselves to Genesis' debut album – From Genesis To Revelation. Appropriately, they call it From Genesis To Reimagination and present the album, reinterpreted, in its original form – as it was once planned but never realised. For Genesis fans, this should be an interesting journey.

Formats and order options

The album will be released on 13 February as a CD and digital album. A vinyl version will also be available, but this will be released at a later date and will feature clear vinyl. It will be available primarily via Bandcamp. UK residents can also order CD and vinyl via Burningshed. The CD comes in a gatefold sleeve and is available for pre-order now. The digital album will also be available on 13 February. All pre-order customers will receive a preview track immediately (The Serpent).

The Ant Band's album contains 15 tracks, based on the original tracklist from the first master tape in 1968.

The band will once again donate part of the proceeds to charity.

CD tracklist

In The Beginning
Fireside Song
The Serpent
The Conqueror
Build Me A Mountain
One Day
In The Wilderness
Where The Sour Turns To Sweet
In Hiding
Image Blown Out
Am I Very Wrong?
Window
Visions Of Angels
In Limbo
A Place To Call My Own

Nine short instrumental interludes are included (eight on the vinyl version).

LP tracklist

The LP has a different track list. Details can be found in the interview with Tom Morgenstern.

Side A

Where The Sour Turns To Sweet*
In The Beginning
Fireside Song
The Serpent
Am I Very Wrong?
In The Wilderness*

Side B

The Conqueror
In Hiding
One Day
Window
In Limbo
Silent Sun*
A Place To Call My Own*

* LP only tracks (alternative mixes/edited versions)

Anthony Phillips knew about the project from the outset, acted as a consultant and also wrote the liner notes for the album.

The Ant Band – the line-up

The Ant Band line-up is largely the same as the one that came together after the Anthony Phillips event in 2014 to record the Anthony Phillips tribute album A Light On The Hill in 2021. And since the members live all over Germany, From Genesis To Reimagination became another remote project – which is now finally being released, more than three years after it was started.

The Ant Band: Bert Wenndorff, Damian Krebs, Gereon Schoplick, Jan-Peer Hartmann, Martin Brilla, Nina Morgenstern, Peter Mustó, Robin Morgenstern, Roland Manns, Sascha Krieger, Tom Morgenstern.
Also featuring: Christoph Piel, David Dunnington, Stefan Störmer.

Tom Morgenstern says about From Genesis To Revelation:

The songs are technically far from perfect and hardly finalised in terms of arrangement. However, it is a very diverse, varied album full of good songs that unfortunately didn't get a real chance back then. These are by no means simple pop songs, as has often been claimed or even criticised, because they have a relatively high degree of harmonic complexity. Or to put it more simply, the guys used much more than just the three standard chords of pop music, and they did so so skilfully that most listeners probably didn't even notice. To be honest, we were also a little surprised when we took a closer look.

You can read more about this in an interview with Tom that we have published here.

Discuss this release with other fans in our forum here. Order the album via Bandcamp.