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