Broadcasting from Home

Infobox Album |
Name = Broadcasting from Home
Type = Album
Artist = Penguin Cafe Orchestra


Released = 1984
Genre = Instrumental Folk
Length = 47:27
Label = E.G. Records
JEM Records
Producer = Simon Jeffes
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:k96wtr49kl3x link]
Last album = "The Penguin Cafe Orchestra Mini Album"
(1983)
This album = "Broadcasting from Home"
(1984)
Next album = "Signs of Life (1987)

"Broadcasting from Home" was the fourth album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and was released in 1984 on E.G. Records. The opening song was named after PCO leader Simon Jeffes found a discarded harmonium in an alleyway in Japan.

The original Vinyl record was pressed by EMI from a damaged master and had a distinctive click on it in track one - neither Virgin or EMI would pay to restore this, ignoring multiple requests and fans therefore had to wait until the DVD's release to hear it again.

Track listing

All music composed by Simon Jeffes except as indicated.

ide one

#"Music for a Found Harmonium" - 3:36
#"Prelude & Yodel" - 3:51
#"More Milk" (Jeffes, Geoffrey Richardson) - 3:10
#"Sheep Dip" (Jeffes, Richardson) - 3:57
#"White Mischief" - 5:48
#"In the Back of a Taxi" - 3:21

ide two

#"Music by Numbers" (Jeffes, Richardson) - 4:41
#"Another One from the Colonies" (Jeffes, Neil Rennie) - 3:04
#"Air" - 4:20
#"Heartwind" (Jeffes, Ryuichi Sakamoto) - 4:11
#"Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots)" - 4:29
#"Now Nothing" - 2:59

Personnel

*Simon Jeffes
*Geoffrey Richardson
*Steve Nye
*Helen Liebmann
*Gavyn Wright
*Neil Rennie
*Kuma Harada
*Marcus Beale
*Trevor Morais
*Fami
*Mike Giles
*Dave Defries
*Annie Whitehead