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Penguin Cafe Orchestra is the second studio album by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, released in 1981, and recorded between 1977 and 1980. By this album, the line-up for the band had expanded greatly, with contribution including Simon Jeffes, Helen Leibmann, Steve Nye, Gavyn Wright of the original quartet, as well as Geoff Richardson, Peter Veitch, Braco, Giles Leaman, Julio Segovia and Neil Rennie. All pieces were composed by Simon Jeffes except for "Paul's Dance", "Cutting Branches", and "Walk Don't Run". The cover painting is by Emily Young. "Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter" is based on the traditional Zimbabwean song "Nhemamusasa", a field recording of which can be heard played on mbira on the Nonesuch Records album The Soul of the Mbira. "Telephone and Rubberband" was sampled by the band Spacehog for their song "In the Meantime". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
