Track Listing

1. Penguin Cafe Single - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
2. Zopf: From the Colonies - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3. Zopf: In a Sydney Motel - Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
4. Zopf: Surface Tension - Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
5. Zopf: Milk - Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
6. Zopf: Coronation - Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
7. Zopf: Giles Farnaby's Dream - Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
8. Zopf: Pigtail - Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
9. Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
10. Hugebaby - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
11. Chartered Flight - Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28073 in Music
• Released on: 1990-08-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. EMI. 2008.

Customer Reviews

Something Rich and Strange
A unique and strange record, even by the standards of the pan-musical Penguin Café Orchesta, 'Music from the Penguin Café' was originally released on Brian Eno's 'Obscure' record label in the mid-seventies, by mail order only.

'MFTPC' is hard to describe, and very few retrospectives of the group's career (sadly, leader Simon Jeffes died in 1997) give this more than a passing mention, as it's almost beyond criticism - a totally self-contained universe of music, mixing primitive electronics, Brian Eno-style ambient, classical and folk to form a side-step into a timeless, alien environment. Surreal and dreamlike, it has a very distinctive 'live' sound, with birdsong faintly audible in the background of some of the tracks. Imagine Michael Nyman's wiggiest moments, as produced by Brian Eno's second assistant tape operator, and you're half-way there.

After this (and the similar follow-up, 'Penguin Café Orchestra') the PCO settled down and become much more conservative - their later work is tuneful, folky, and much less experimental.

Man, you never can meet CD's this good so often
The first time I listened to this album was when I was a teen. Ever since, I have been addicted to Penguin Cafe Orchestra's work, but this first album is the best of all.

I owned an LP of this but recently bought a CD again, and listened to it more carefully with a better-sounding system. This made me to rediscover this gem. What a wonderful music they made! I don't think pieces in this album are so "weird". Actually, I found some of them are most relaxing music that I ever heard. But they could be a different kind of music, anyway.

The only and probably minor problem with this album is that, probably due to the inferior recording condition of their day, some pieces are suffering from distortion.

Only Penquin you need on a desert island
Hilariously excellent music. People this talented are impossible to explain. I saw the documentary about them on PBS light years ago. Bought CD, lost CD. Could not live without CD so came back to Amazon and bought it again.