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Music Collection - 49' minutes playlist
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00:00 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Air à Danser 04:31 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Yodel 1 08:41 The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band 11:12 Penguin Café Orchestra - Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter 14:20 Penguin Café Orchestra - Pythagoras's Trousers 17:47 Penguin Café Orchestra - Numbers 1-4 24:40 Penguin Café Orchestra - Yodel 2 29:19 Penguin Café Orchestra - Salty Bean Fumble 31:32 Penguin Café Orchestra - Paul's Dance 33:20 Penguin Café Orchestra - The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas 37:21 Penguin Café Orchestra - Walk Don't Run 40:26 Penguin Café Orchestra - Flux 42:13 Penguin Café Orchestra - Simon's Dream 44:02 Penguin Café Orchestra - Harmonic Necklace 45:15 Penguin Café Orchestra - Steady State
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO) was a collective of performing musicians created by classically trained British guitarist, composer and arranger Simon Jeffes. Jeffes and cellist co-founder Helen Liebmann were core members throughout its life and a number of other musicians joined as the band grew and developed, many of whom appear on the PCO's six studio albums.
The PCO toured extensively during the 1980s and 1990s, and two albums, When in Rome... (1988) and Concert Program (1995) captured the sound of the live ensemble. The Penguin's sound is not easily categorized, but has elements of exuberant folk music and a minimalist aesthetic occasionally reminiscent of composers such as Philip Glass.
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra recorded and performed for 24 years until Jeffes died of a brain tumour in 1997. The remaining members of the group briefly reunited for a handful of concerts in 2007.
Simon Jeffes' son, Arthur Jeffes, subsequently founded a distinct successor band called simply Penguin Cafe in 2009, which features no original PCO members. This new ensemble does, however, feature many PCO numbers in its live repertoire, and also records and performs new music written by the younger Jeffes. Meanwhile, several original members of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra still continue to play together. Originally billing themselves as "The Anteaters", they now perform concerts of the music of Simon Jeffes as "The Orchestra That Fell To Earth".
Covers and sampling
"Music For A Found Harmonium" was covered by the Galician band Matto Congrio in 1993, also by the California Guitar Trio on their Echoes album (2008), and by Irish accordion player Sharon Shannon on her first album. The tune was also covered by the pan-celtic violin ensemble Celtic Fiddle Festival in 1993, at the time consisting of former Silly Wizard fiddler Johnny Cunningham, Bothy Band fiddler Kevin Burke, and Kornog fiddler Christian Lemaitre, on their self-titled debut album. A section of "Music For A Found Harmonium" was used by record producer Steve Mac for his dance track "Paddy's Revenge".[6] The song "Telephone and Rubber Band" was sampled by Spacehog in their 1995 hit "In the Meantime", from the album Resident Alien. Avicii samples a section of "Perpetuum Mobile" in his dance track Fade Into Darkness (previously known as Penguin); the Leona Lewis/Avicii collaboration Collide uses the same piano hook. A portion of "Perpetuum Mobile" is sampled on the track "Missed Calls" by rapper Mac Miller. "Music For A Found Harmonium" was used as part of a tune set ("Guns") by Roving Crows on their "Deliberate Distractions" album (2013)
Film
Penguin Cafe Orchestra music featured on the 1986 Australian cult film Malcolm, written by David Parker and directed by Nadia Tass. The film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film.
"Telephone & Rubber Band" was used during the final scene of the Oliver Stone's film Talk Radio (1988)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra music featured on the Petra Katharina Wagner film Oskar und Leni (1999). The music was also issued on a separate CD.
"Nothing Really Blue" was used during the final scene of the German film The Princess and the Warrior (2000).
"Perpetuum Mobile" was used the main theme for the documentary The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007), the animated Australian film Mary and Max (2009), the Swedish movie Slim Susie (2003) and the documentary Project Nim (2011).
"Music For A Found Harmonium" is featured in Michael Moore's documentary film Capitalism: A Love Story (2009), as he wraps several Wall Street banks and the New York Stock Exchange in crime scene tape; in 2004's It's All Gone Pete Tong; for the ending montage in Napoleon Dynamite (2004), but not included on the motion picture soundtrack; and in 2011's Goodbye First Love.
