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A History

Compilation by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Released 26 November 2001

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CD 1: A History: CD1
1
Music for a Found Harmonium
3:40
2
Penguin Café Single
6:16
3
From the Colonies
1:40
4
Giles Farnaby's Dream
2:19
5
Pigtail
2:45
6
Hugebaby
4:50
7
Yodel 1
4:14
8
Surface Tension
2:24
9
Chartered Flight
6:43
10
Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter
3:10
11
Pythagoras' Trousers
3:21
12
Heartwind
4:11
13
Yodel 2
4:37
14
Salty Bean Fumble
2:13
15
The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas
4:03
16
Walk Don't Run
3:04
17
Meditation Rag
Simon Jeffes
2:21
18
The Toy
4:29
19
Numbers 1-4 (live)
6:43
20
Salty Bean Fumble (live)
2:23
21
Telephone and Rubber Band
2:29
4.0 ★
CD 2: A History: CD2
1
Prelude and Yodel
3:52
2
More Milk
3:10
3
Sheep Dip
3:58
4
In the Back of a Taxi
3:22
5
Music by Numbers
4:43
6
Another One From the Colonies
3:07
7
Giles Farnaby's Dream (live)
4:05
8
Air
4:22
9
Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots)
4:20
10
Now Nothing
2:59
11
Beanfields
4:25
12
Numbers 1-4
6:53
3.6 ★
13
Southern Jukebox Music
4:38
14
Horns of the Bull
4:35
15
Oscar Tango
3:14
16
Steady State
3:36
17
Surface Tension (live)
2:10
18
Perpetuum Mobile (live)
4:41
19
Giles Farnaby's Dream (live)
5:25
CD 3: A History: CD3
1
Air À Danser
4:34
2
Dirt (live)
5:29
3
Beanfields (live)
4:32
4
Prelude and Yodel (live)
4:14
5
Paul's Dance (live)
2:21
6
Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter (live)
2:17
7
In the Back of a Taxi (live)
3:57
8
Southern Jukebox Music (live)
4:55
9
Numbers 1-4 (live)
7:47
10
Telephone and Rubber Band (live)
4:10
11
Perpetuum Mobile
4:33
12
Air (live)
4:04
13
From the Colonies (live)
3:22
14
Oscar Tango (live)
3:18
15
Music for a Found Harmonium (live)
3:17
16
Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots) (live)
4:44
17
Yodel 2 (live)
5:01
18
Rosasolis
4:18
CD 4: A History: CD4
1
White Mischief
5:49
2
Paul's Dance
1:46
3
Air À Danser (live)
5:30
4
Lifeboat (Lover's Rock) (live)
6:50
5
Steady State (live)
5:20
6
Scherzo and Trio
6:54
7
Nothing Really Blue
5:15
8
Cage Dead
4:37
9
Vega
10:19
10
Organum
3:51
11
Another One From Porlock
2:58
12
Pythagoras on the Line
1:53
13
Kora Kora
3:07
14
Red Shorts
4:09
15
Passing Through
5:25
16
Lullaby
3:59

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Release credits

Bob Loveday
bass [13], violin [3.11, 2.1, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15]
Elisabeth Perry
violin [2.15, 3.11]
Emily Young
vocal [8]
Fami
membranophone [4]
Gavyn Wright
viola [8], violin [1.6, 1.8, 3.11, 2.15]
Geoffrey Richardson
bass [12], cuatro [1], electric guitar [12], mandolin [11], tin whistle [12], viola [13, 15]
Helen Liebmann
cello [1.6, 1.8, 3.11, 2.1, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15]
Ian Morais
mix [2.11, 2.13-15, 3.11], recording [1.1, 1.12, 4.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.10]
Jennifer Maidman
percussion [1, 11]
Julio Segovia
percussion [1, 11]
Kuma Harada
bass guitar [1]
Marcus Beale
electric violin [8]
Neil Rennie
cuatro [11], ukulele [1, 4]
Paul Street
cuatro [1], guitar [1], ukulele [11]
Simon Jeffes
analog synthesizer [11], bass [8], cuatro [8], effects [2.14, 1.8], electric fretless guitar [14], electric guitar [2.1, 1.6], electric piano [8], guitar [2.1, 1.8], membranophone [11], omnichord [11], other instruments [8], other vocals [8], piano [2.10, 2.13, 2.15, 4.1, 1.12, 3.11], producer [1.1, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.21, 3.11, 4.1, 2.1, 2.4, 2.8, 2.10-15], spinet [8], ukulele [1.8, 1.12, 2.11], violin [11]
Steve Nye
electric piano [6], engineer [6], keyboard [1, 11], mix [8], piano [4, 11], producer [1.6, 1.8, 2.15, 3.11]

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A History
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