Broadcasting From Home

by Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Broadcasting From Home cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Editions EG
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 47:46
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Kuma Harada, Geoffrey Richardson, Michael Giles, Annie Whitehead, Steve Nye, Fami, Simon Jeffes, David Defries, Gavyn Wright, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Helen Liebmann, Neil Rennie, Trevor Morais, Marcus Beale

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Simon Jeffes continued to cultivate his ensemble's idiosyncratic blend of folk, classical, and minimalist traditions on 'Broadcasting From Home'. The arrangements utilize unconventional instrumentation alongside traditional strings, resulting in pieces that are deceptively simple yet rhythmically intricate. Its most famous composition, 'Music for a Found Harmonium', has since become a standard in various folk and crossover repertoires.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, Instrumental, instrumental, rhythmic, atmospheric, experimental, genre-blending, chamber, ensemble, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Music For A Found Harmonium (3:39)
  2. Prelude And Yodel (3:50)
  3. More Milk (3:11)
  4. Sheep Dip (3:59)
  5. White Mischief (5:49)
  6. In The Back Of A Taxi (3:25)
  7. Music By Numbers (4:41)
  8. Another One From The Colonies (3:06)
  9. Air (4:19)
  10. Heartwind (4:12)
  11. Isle Of View (Music For Helicopter Pilots) (4:30)
  12. Now Nothing (3:00)

Credits

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