'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.
Tracks :
1. Penguin Cafe Single
2. From The Colonies
3. In A Sydney Motel
4. Surface Tension
5. Milk
6. Coronation
7. Giles Farnaby's Dream
8. Pigtail
9. The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's
Going Away And It Doesn't Matter
10. Hugebaby
11. Chartered Flight
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