After his brief tenure in the original Genesis line-up, Anthony Phillips embarked on a solo career that saw him trying on different genre hats. By the 90s he’d carved out a career as a composer of library and production music – tracks that are available to be licensed for use in commercials, corporate videos and the like.
That’s very much the style and sound of 1994’s Sail The World, written and recorded for television coverage of the Whitbread Round The World Yacht Race. While Phillips is known as an accomplished guitarist, the sound is dominated by synthesisers and the music seems to strive to be unobtrusive, intended to play in the background of shots of yachts gliding smoothly over the waves in the sunshine, allowing plenty of space for commentary to sit on top of it.
