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A HISTORY

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2001

Songs / Tracks Listing

CD 1 (65:53)
1. Penguin Cafe Single (6:18)
2. From the Colonies (1:38)
3. Giles Farnaby's Dream (2:20)
4. Pigtail (2:43)
5. Hugebaby (4:49)
6. Chartered Flight (6:43)
7. Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter (3:10)
8. Pythagoras' Trousers (3:22)
9. Yodel 2 (4:36)
10. Salty Bean Fumble (2:13)
11. The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas (4:02)
12. Walk Don't Run (3:05)
13. Meditation Rag (2:20)
14. The Toy (4:27)
15. Numbers 1-4 (6:43)
16. Salty Bean Fumble (2:24)
17. Yodel 2 (5:00)

CD 2 (66:20)
1. Prelude & Yodel (3:50)
2. More Milk (3:12)
3. Sheep Dip (3:56)
4. In the Back of a Taxi (3:23)
5. Music by Numbers (4:42)
6. Another One from the Colonies (3:06)
7. Air (4:22)
8. Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots) (4:21)
9. Now Nothing (3:00)
10. Beanfields (4:25)
11. Southern Jukebox Music (4:38)
12. Horns of the Bull (4:36)
13. Oscar Tango (3:14)
14. Sketch (3:18)
15. Giles Farnaby's Dream (5:25)
16. Perpetuum Mobile (4:42)
17. Surface Tension (2:10)

CD 3 (50:50)
1. Dirt (5:27)
2. Yodel 1 (4:46)
3. Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter (2:15)
4. In the Back of a Taxi (3:56)
5. Southern Jukebox Music (4:54)
6. Numbers 1-4 (7:45)
7. Telephone and Rubber Band (4:08)
8. Air (4:02)
9. Paul's Dance (2:20)
10. Oscar Tango (3:18)
11. Music for a Found Harmonium (3:16)
12. Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots) (4:43)

CD 4 (69:35)
1. Air à danser (5:24)
2. Beanfields (4:37)
3. Music for a Found Harmonium (2:51)
4. Lifeboat (Lovers Rock) (6:52)
5. Steady State (5:19)
6. Scherzo and Trio (6:52)
7. Nothing Really Blue (5:16)
8. Cage Dead (4:37)
9. Vega (10:20)
10. Another One from Porlock (2:59)
11. Pythagoras on the Line (1:52)
12. Kora Kora (3:05)
13. Red Shorts (4:07)
14. Passing Through (5:24)

Total Time 252:38

Line-up / Musicians

- Braco / drums
- Danny Cummins / percussion
- Stephen Fletcher / piano
- Simon Jeffes / acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, cuatro, ukulele, bass, voice, Omnichord, Dulcitone, penny whistle, pitch pipes, harmonium, shakers, drums, ring modulator, rubber band, electronic organ, milkbottles, triangle, violin, drum, Linn Drum computer, soloban, spinet, Prophet V, fretless guitar, Bluthner and Bosendorfer pianos, zebra drum, tape, pianica, mandolin, electric aeolian harp
- Pat Kierman / violin
- Chris Laurence / bass
- Giles Leaman / woodwinds
- Helen Liebmann / cello
- Bob Loveday / violin
- Martin Loveday / cello
- Ian Maidman (now Jennifer Maidman) / percussion, bass, ukelele, guitar
- Peter McGowan / violin
- Trevor Morais / drums
- Steve Nye / electric piano, cuatro, Bluthner piano, Wurlitzer piano, harmonium
- Neil Rennie / ukelele
- Geoffrey Richardson / viola, slide guitar, bass, bongos, metal frame, ukelele, mandolin, electric guitar, penny whistle, clarinet
- Henry Roche / piano
- Katherine Tickell / Northumbrian small pipes
- Pete Veitch / accordion
- Katy Wilkinson / violin
- Gavyn Wright / violin
- Grace Davidson / vocals (19)
- Emily Young / vocals (14)

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