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Penguin Cafe Orchestra ??/??/1989

SHOWID 296303

Set I

Air a dancer
Southern jukebox music
Paul's dance
Perpetuum mobile
Numbers 1 to 4
Salty bean fumble
Music for a found harmonium

Set II

 

Set III

 

Comment

Simon Jeffes (guitar)
Bob Loveday (violin)
Geoffrey Richardson (viola)
Helen Liebmann (cello)
Neil Rennie (ukelele)
Stephen Fletcher (piano)
Annie Whitehead (trombone)
Ian Maidman (percussion)

This is a TV concert filmed live before an audience, and Simon Jeffes talks between some of tracks to introduce them.

Collectors With This Show

User (active/rating) Media / # Show Sound Details DB Source User Source
Eddie (5/5) DVD / 1 A A View   Pro shot TV
Notes: this is just a great dvd, great relaxed, smooth music.
svendy (5/0) DVD / 1 A+ A+ View  
John Cook (4/5) NTSC DVD / 1 View   TV > VHS HiFi > ATI 9000 > PC > TMPGEnc > DVD Lab > NTSC DVD
Notes: 2572 MB, 39:00
Franck (2/5) DVD / 0 A/+ View   PRO SHOT
Notes: BBC Special, Bristol, 1989-2-12 (AVI video)45'. The Seeder: "this was recorded from Italian RAISAT satellite TV channel in recent years. I received the file on a CD in a trade. there is another file doing the rounds on E-mule which, though a bit bigger in size, is a VHS transfer. this one, although smaller, is a digital transfer and has better definition. Italian music journalist Vittorio Castelnuovo introduces the archival programme with a heartfelt eulogy for the late Simon Jeffes' Orchestra. Between songs, Simon Jeffes is interviewed (with Italian subtitles). for PCO aficionados, there are one or two rarities of note here: Air a Danser has an excised opening phrase, whereas Numbers 1-4 opens with Jeffes striking a Tibetan prayer bowl (more or less) in time. beautiful setting, with houseplants in the centre surrounded by the Orchestra, as well as hanging nets and birdcages, providing a becomingly utopian ambience. fine, if obviously '80s-style, post-production by the Beeb. a curio: saxophonist and 'Nightmusic' TV show host David Sanborn is visible in the audience, clapping (it seems to me)."