Signs of Life

Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (September 23, 1992)
• Label: Editions Eg Records
• ASIN: B000003S39
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,486,815 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bean Fields

2. Southern Jukebox Music

3. Horns of the Bull

4. Oscar Tango

5. The Snake and the Lotus (The Pond)

6. Rosasolis

7. Dirt

8. Sketch

9. Perpetuum Mobile

10. Swing the Cat

11. Wildlife

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful instrumentation across an impressionist landscape, April 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Signs of Life (Audio CD)

Who else but Penguin Cafe Orchestra can offer at once an aural treat of minimalist, acoustic, simple, eclectic, avant-garde, accessable, complex, curious, melodious, and beautiful instrumentals? Wonderfully and exuberantly played, this music is a must for anyone who enjoys Kronos Quartet, Glass, modern classical, world music, or even Talking Heads. Inventive composition, perfect arrangements, and beautiful instrumentation splashed across a modern, almost impressionist, landscape.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For all Public Radio fans . . ., April 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Signs of Life (Audio CD)

For anyone who is a public radio fan, you will recognize some of these compositions as the segways between stories on shows like All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and especially Ira Glass's "This American Life." Track #9, "Perpetuum Mobile," is a notable standout.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A sound that is all over the music map, August 16, 2002

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This review is from: Signs of Life (Audio CD)

I first became acquainted with the PCO through Perpetuum Mobile,a piece that has found its way into numerous tv commercials in the last 10-12 years.That catchy tune is not the only one on this album;there is also the appropriately titled 'Southern Jukebox Music','Beanfields' and the animal righters infuriating 'Swing the Cat'.The PCO's music is silly,fun and sometimes strangely beautiful(Perpetuum Mobile again).
Is the PCO light classical,pop or worldbeat?It may be an indefinable hodgepodge,but not in a dreary,pompous new age way.It is mostly airy,devil-may-care delight.I think the world could use a little more of that!