Preludes, Airs & Yodels

Preludes, Airs & Yodels Artist: The Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Label: Caroline
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 017046110020
EAN: 0017046110020
ASIN: B000000HQ6


Release Date: 1997-04-22

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Tracks:

  1. Music For A Found Harmonium
  2. Perpetuum Mobile
  3. Penguin Cafe Single
  4. Air
  5. Telephone And Rubber Band
  6. Dirt
  7. Giles Farnaby's Dream
  8. Oscar Tango
  9. Rosasolis
  10. Air A Danser
  11. Music For A Found Harmonium
  12. Yodel 3
  13. White Mischief
  14. Prelude And Yodel
  15. Harmonic Necklace
  16. Steady State
  17. Nothing Really Blue
  18. Panda Harmonium
  19. Piano Music

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Haunting Ending to "The Princess And The Warrior".......2005-10-30

It only took me about an hour Googling around to find "Nothing Really Blue," by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the haunting solo piano piece that closes the film, "The Princess And The Warrior." It is NOT included on the soundtrack CD and it is NOT clearly referenced during the credit roll in the film. But this beautiful, stark and mysterious piano composition plays as the two main characters drive away from their troubles and towards their sanctuary on the desolate coast and as the camera slowly pulls back in a long helicopter shot.

2 out of 5 stars A gift.......2003-07-20

I can't stand it, but my grandparents love it.

5 out of 5 stars Mood Music for Happy Schizoids.......2000-08-17

God bless my ex. He couldn't carry a tune if you elmer glued it to his vocal chords but he turned me on to this wonderful group about a month after we first started dating. As an uptight college student, I used to put on the first two Penquin Cafe Orchestra albums (vinyl no less) to study. I figure if I were going to be tortured by masturbatory French semiotic theorists, the least I could do is have this wonderful music to keep me sane. I am a long way from tearing my hair out over Derridoo, I mean Derrida, but these wonderful Penquin Cafe Orchestra songs have traveled with me to four cities and countless apartments. I have always wanted to choreograph "Perpetuum Mobile" and "Steady Skate" for a pair of ice skaters (lord, what Torvil and Dean could do with those luscious long gliding cello lines), danced around my room to the extravagant silliness, driven uptight musicians crazy who won't admit that minimalism can be as mentally expansive as the pharmacological substances they imbibed in great quantities, marveled at how wonderful a spinet and ukelele could sound together (like an unexpectedly savory meal in a hole-in-the-wall restuarant)in "Giles Farnaby's Dream," consoled myself over bad times and celebrated the good ones with this wonderful music playing somewhere within earshot. I introduced my ex to hundreds of albums over the 8 years we were together before he died, but this is the ONLY music he ever introduced me to, and for that alone I am grateful to have met him. God bless you for that Mr T wherever you may be, and I hope you are happily humming along--offkey of course--to Air A Danser wherever ye may be.

4 out of 5 stars Solid Gold Chartbusters.......2000-03-28

This is a collection of the Penguin Café Orchestra's music, from the first album ('Music from the Penguin Café') to their last ('Union Café'), with extracts from a couple of deleted EPs, and two remixes of 'Music for a Found Harmonium', one by ambient techno artists The Orb the end.

As an introduction to the band it serves its purpose, although there's rather too much of the later, dull stuff, for the simple reason that there's more of it than the earlier, weird stuff.

For a proper 'best of' go out and buy 'Music from the Penguin Café' and 'Penguin Café Orchestra'.

4 out of 5 stars Pretty darn good!!!.......1998-10-06

As with all penguin cafe albums, the listening is easy! Some arrangements of tracks compared to those on other albums are a little dissapointing but still worth listening to. Still some spine-tingling moments to play, replay, and replay again!

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