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History [Original recording remastered] [Box set]

~ Penguin Cafe Orchestra
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Product details

  • Orchestra: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
  • Composer: Simon Jeffes
  • Audio CD (26 Nov 2001)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Original recording remastered, Box set
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B00005QX6X
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,106 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc 1:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Penguin Café Single (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 6:18£0.89
Listen  2. Zopf: From The Colonies (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 1:38£0.89
Listen  3. Zopf: Giles Farnaby's Dream (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:20£0.89
Listen  4. Zopf: Pigtail (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:43£0.89
Listen  5. Hugebaby (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:48£0.89
Listen  6. Chartered Flight (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 6:42£0.89
Listen  7. Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:10£0.89
Listen  8. Pythagoras's Trousers (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:21£0.89
Listen  9. Yodel 2 (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:36£0.89
Listen10. Salty Bean Fumble (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:13£0.89
Listen11. The Ecstasy Of Dancing Fleas (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:02£0.89
Listen12. Walk Don't Run (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:04£0.89
Listen13. Meditation Rag (2001 Digital Remaster)Simon Jeffes 2:20£0.89
Listen14. The Toy (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:27£0.89
Listen15. Numbers 1-4 (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 6:42£0.89
Listen16. Salty Bean Fumble (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:23£0.89
Listen17. Yodel 2 (Live)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:59£0.89


Disc 2:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Prelude And Yodel (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:51£0.89
Listen  2. More Milk (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:11£0.89
Listen  3. Sheep Dip (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:56£0.89
Listen  4. In The Back Of A Taxi (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:22£0.89
Listen  5. Music By Numbers (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:41£0.89
Listen  6. Another One From The Colonies (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:06£0.89
Listen  7. Air (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:21£0.89
Listen  8. Isle Of View (Music For Helicopter Pilots) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:20£0.89
Listen  9. Now Nothing (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:00£0.89
Listen10. Bean Fields (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:25£0.89
Listen11. Southern Jukebox Music (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:38£0.89
Listen12. Horns Of The Bull (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:35£0.89
Listen13. Oscar Tango (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:13£0.89
Listen14. Sketch (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:17£0.89
Listen15. Giles Farnaby's Dream (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 5:24£0.89
Listen16. Perpetuum Mobile (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:41£0.89
Listen17. Surface Tension (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:10£0.89


Disc 3:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Dirt (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 5:27£0.89
Listen  2. Yodel 1 (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:46£0.89
Listen  3. Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:15£0.89
Listen  4. In The Back Of A Taxi (Live)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:55£0.89
Listen  5. Southern Jukebox Music (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:53£0.89
Listen  6. Numbers 1-4 (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 7:45£2.99
Listen  7. Telephone And Rubber Band (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:08£0.89
Listen  8. Air (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:02£0.89
Listen  9. Paul's Dance (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:19£0.89
Listen10. Oscar Tango (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:18£0.89
Listen11. Music For A Found Harmonium (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:15£0.89
Listen12. Isle Of View (Music For Helicopter Pilots) (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:42£0.89


Disc 4:

Samples
Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Air À Danser (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 5:24£0.89
Listen  2. Bean Fields (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:37£0.89
Listen  3. Music For A Found Harmonium (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:50£0.89
Listen  4. Lifeboat (Lover's Rock) (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 6:52£0.89
Listen  5. Steady State (Live) (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 5:18£0.89
Listen  6. Scherzo And Trio (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 6:52£0.89
Listen  7. Nothing Really Blue (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 5:15£0.89
Listen  8. Cage Dead (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:36£0.89
Listen  9. Vega (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra10:19£2.99
Listen10. Another One From Porlock (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 2:59£0.89
Listen11. Pythagoras On The Line (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 1:51£0.89
Listen12. Kora Kora (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 3:05£0.89
Listen13. Red Shorts (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 4:07£0.89
Listen14. Passing Through (2001 Digital Remaster)Penguin Café Orchestra 5:23£0.89

On this CD:
  1. Penguin Cafe Single
    Composed by Simon Jeffes
    Performed by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

  2. From the Colonies
    Composed by Simon Jeffes
    Performed by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Product Description

Album Description

Packaged together in a luxury long box of 4 CDs, The Penguin Café Orchestra, A History brings together 60 tracks, two previously unreleased. The selection spans the entire history of the band for the first time and comes complete with a 48-page booklet featuring numerous previously unseen photos and pictures together with a newly commissioned essay by Robert Sandall. All of the tracks have been remastered under the watchful eye of Arthur Jeffes, the son of the late band leader Simon Jeffes. Arthur has also written the sleeve notes, reminiscing about growing up surrounded by such weird and wonderful music and circumstance. The Penguin Café Orchestra is known intimately by the devoted and subconsciously by millions. Their tracks have appeared in numerous films and adverts over the years, notably "Beanfields" in the Eurotunnel ad, "Telephone and Rubber Band" in the Mercury One To One ad and "Perpetuum Mobile" in the Knorr Herb Cubes ad.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars History needs brief history, 24 Aug 2003
I bought the box set aswell as the the single c.d 'a brief history' and to be honest I think that anyone unfamiliar would be better off buying 'Brief History' first because it has all the famous tracks on.

If you know their music then it would be a good idea to buy the single c.d 'Brief History' aswell as the 'History' box set.

The remastering is top notch.

My only criticism is that it's a little heavy on the live tracks.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars This music is wonderful, 13 Aug 2003
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I bought this collection having only heard a bit of PCO - risky! But I'm delighted.

The music has a lot of energy, it's fresh and often downright catchy! But at the same time - and this may seem a contradiction - it feels like it's from an era that has passed away. I personally find it very touching, and I can't quite make sense of it.

There is a written history of the orchestra included, which helped me appreciate the music. It's very attractive and interesting. Unfortunately, it isn't bound very well and it started to fall apart on me quite soon. Out came the sticky tape. This is why I haven't given the collection the full 5 stars.

Still, there isn't a bad CD, nor a track that I want to skip, in this entire collection. You'll find yourself not just listening to the Penguin Cafe, but visiting it from your armchair!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Penguin Cafe Orchestra, 2 Feb 2009
Just wonderful, especially the live recordings, some repetition but great music that merits this. Telephones and rubber bands wasted before this band got hold of them
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