- Audio CD (22 April 1997)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Caroline
- ASIN: B000000HQ6
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 489,425 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Music For A Found Harmonium |
| 2. Perpetuum Mobile |
| 3. Penguin Cafe Single |
| 4. Air |
| 5. Telephone And Rubber Band |
| 6. Dirt |
| 7. Giles Farnaby's Dream |
| 8. Oscar Tango |
| 9. Rosasolis |
| 10. Air A Danser |
| 11. Music For A Found Harmonium |
| 12. Yodel 3 |
| 13. White Mischief |
| 14. Prelude And Yodel |
| 15. Harmonic Necklace |
| 16. Steady State |
| 17. Nothing Really Blue |
| 18. Panda Harmonium |
| 19. Piano Music |
Product Description
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Simon Jeffes's gravity-defying ensemble serves up a compilation of 19 tracks dating back to 1976. A great primer for beginners, this includes marvels of wit and construction like "Telephone & Rubber Band" and "Music for a Found Harmonium" (which is also heard here in a version by Celtic group Patrick Street). --Jeff Bateman
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A minor revelation, the PCO do the hardest trick of all, make simple music sound easy.
Hard to catgorise, but I'll have a go; an accoustic Kraftwerk. Loads of simple, humm-able melodies. My personal favourite is track 5 "Telephone and Rubber band", which I realised I first heard on an advert for Mobile phones years ago.
Ideal "chill out" music; deft, closed loops of melody. As restful as chinese green tea, which I am sure they serve in the Penguin Cafe.
Buy it, you'll like it!
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra are one of those acts that I've always intended to check out but never been quite sure how to start... so this compilation/sampler of their work looked like a good starting point.
Other reviewers of the PCO usually struggle to describe their music (is it pseudo-classical? folk? world? experimental?) and I can now sympathise - other than to say that it is all thoroughly enjoyable! The tunes on this album, odd though they seem at first hearing, somehow insinuate themselves into your brain, so that you find yourself humming them during the day...
I particularly liked the three different versions of the opening track, 'Music for a Found Harmonium': the first is the original harmonium-based (no surprises there) version, the second an arrangement for a non-PCO piano-based quartet, and the third an electronica remix (re-make would be more descriptive) by The Orb. All three somehow preserve the oddball charm of the basic tune.
Oh, and no need to worry - I haven't heard any actual yodelling on the album...
I like this album already and I suspect it is going to continue to grow on me: I will be looking out to add more of the PCO's work to my collection!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Whilst most people know the track 'Telephone and Rubber Band' from the mobile phone adverts, I came to hear of PCO from an obscure Australian Film 'Malcolm'
anyway, I don't know much of PCO, but all the tracks I DO know are here. Music for a Found Harmonium may just be one of the best melodies ever penned, IMO. As a start for an album it is flawless, and the following tracks, whilst often quirky and strange at first, have a way of implanting their melodies into your head.
However, the album seems to lose momentum after the first 10 tracks or so, and often has me skipping forward to the brilliant Orb version of Music for a Found Harmonium, called PandaHarmonium.
anyway, I don't know much of PCO, but all the tracks I DO know are here. Music for a Found Harmonium may just be one of the best melodies ever penned, IMO. As a start for an album it is flawless, and the following tracks, whilst often quirky and strange at first, have a way of implanting their melodies into your head.
However, the album seems to lose momentum after the first 10 tracks or so, and often has me skipping forward to the brilliant Orb version of Music for a Found Harmonium, called PandaHarmonium.
A great introduction to PCO.
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Excellent
Perfect collection of tracks that you can enjoy relaxing. Some of the tracks are so familiar you don't realise how many times you might have heard them before in movies or even... Read more
Published 1 month ago by music fan
Very wonderful pieces of music...!!!
I first got into the Penguin Cafe Orchestra without knowing who they were, after listening to 'Music for a Found Harmonium' and 'Telephone and Rubber Band' on a very weird,... Read more
Published 14 months ago by T. S. Hughes
Brilliant Band!
One of my all time fave bands. Their music and approach to making music is just wonderful. I saw them in concert in Edinburgh many years ago and the whole thing just blew me away! Read more
Published 14 months ago by Gavin Sutherland
penquin cafe
there is a very specific time and place of this music...really the magic had be lost somewhat on me from when i first heard them back in the 1980s... Read more
Published on 18 July 2009 by P. Bowen
Wonderful !
Found this gem while looking for something else entirely. The Penguin Café are new to me - but not their music. Read more
Published on 25 July 2007 by book-worm.biz
A fine introduction to a unique endevour
Penguin Cafe Orchestra was the brainchild and main musical outlet for the sadly missed multi-instrumentalist/composer Simon Jeffes. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2006 by John David Charles Hilton
A tune a day keeps the doctor away.
You will know most of these tunes from adverts or movies, but don't let that stop you. There is some wonderful work here, a 'primer' for the Penguin cafe (a best of the early stuff... Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2003 by D. Cosby
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