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Preludes, Airs & Yodels

~ Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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Audio CD (5 Aug 1996)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Ambient
ASIN: B0000072UE
Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyable introduction to the PCO, 22 April 2002

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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!

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5.0 out of 5 stars "When this old world starts getting you down..", 14 Jul 2002

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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!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Preludes Airs and Yodels, a PCO primer, 26 Sep 2003

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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.

A great introduction to PCO.

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