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Penguin Cafe Orchestra

A History


Updated standardized version of the luxury long box edition, with revised sequence tracklisting. Four CD anthology from the critically adored collective of performing musicians created by classically trained British guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes. The selection spans the entire history of the band and comes complete with a scaled down version of the 48-page booklet from the long box edition. Containing sleeve notes from Arthur Jeffes (Simon's son) reminiscing about growing up surrounded by such weird and wonderful music and circumstance. All of the tracks were remastered under the watchful eye of Arthur Jeffes for the 2001 version. EMI.

Tracklist
  • Disc 1

    1. Penguin Cafe Single
    2. From The Colonies
    3. Giles Farnaby's Dream
    4. Pigtail
    5. Hugebaby
    6. Chartered Flight
    7. Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter
    8. Pythagoras's Trousers
    9. Yodel 2
    10. Salty Bean Fumble
    11. The Ecstasy Of Dancing Fleas
    12. Walk Don't Run
    13. Meditation Rag
    14. The Toy
    15. Numbers 1 - 4 (Live)
    16. Salty Bean Fumble (Live)
    17. Yodel 2 (Live)

    Disc 2

    1. Prelude And Yodel
    2. More Milk
    3. Sheep Dip
    4. In The Back Of A Taxi
    5. Music By Numbers
    6. Another One From The Colonies
    7. Air
    8. Isle Of View (Music For Helicopter Pilots)
    9. Now Nothing
    10. Bean Fields
    11. Southern Jukebox Music
    12. Horns Of The Bull
    13. Oscar Tango
    14. Sketch
    15. Giles Farnaby's Dream
    16. Perpetuum Mobile (Live)
    17. Surface Tension (Live)

    Disc 3

    1. Dirt (Live)
    2. Yodel 1 (Live)
    3. Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter (Live)
    4. In The Back Of A Taxi (Live)
    5. Southern Jukebox Music (Live)
    6. Numbers 1 - 4 (Live)
    7. Telephone And Rubber Band (Live)
    8. Air (Live)
    9. Paul's Dance (Live)
    10. Oscar Tango (Live)
    11. Music For A Found Harmonium (Live)
    12. Isle Of View (Music For Helicopter Pilots) (Live)

    Disc 4

    1. Air À Danser (Live)
    2. Bean Fields (Live)
    3. Music For A Found Harmonium (Live)
    4. Lifeboat (Lover's Rock) (Live)
    5. Steady State (Live)
    6. Scherzo And Trio
    7. Nothing Really Blue
    8. Cage Dead
    9. Vega
    10. Another One From Porlock
    11. Pythagoras On The Line
    12. Kora Kora
    13. Red Shorts
    14. Passing Through

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