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This album is billed as "a Penguin Café Primer" , everyone else has a best of or, greatest hits. This is taken a step further, all greatest hits albums have a few "exclusive" tracks not available on any other of their albums , just so you have to buy it, so does this. In true PCO style the exclusive tracks are by other artists. So what do you get?
Nineteen pieces from their first album in 1976 up to 1996. There are three versions of "Music For A Found Harmonium", the opener by PCO , one by folk instrumentalist Patrick Street, and one an ambient remix by the Orb from 1996 called Pandaharmonium (these are the "exclusive extras"). ALl are brilliant. The liner notes also tell the story of how the tune came about, and there's a transcription of the music in there. The album also contains "Perpetuum Mobile" and "Telephone and a Rubber Band" that have appeared on TV adverts for Oxo and One To One respectively.
The album contains a wide selection of the PCO's work and is available for arounf £7 in most good record shops.
The only sad note is that Simon Jeffes the leader of the PCO died a few yeras ago of a brain tumour, so the PCO are no more. Their music is acoustic / chamber orchestra based but very listenable and I'd recommend them and this album (in fact all their albums) to everybody.
They also have a live album "When in Rome" that I like better than this one, but is a bit harder, but not impossible , to track down.
Try it , you'll like it, Trust Me.
Mike
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aprose 07.02.2001 19:20
I had never heard of this band before. I think I will have to check them out now. very good opinion.
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