Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer) - Penguin Cafe Orchestra (The)

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 ...
...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 ...

mikeydred 06.02.2001 (10.05.2001) · Read full review
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