''When in Rome...'' is a 1988 live album by the

Penguin Cafe Orchestra The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO) were an avant-pop band led by English guitarist Simon Jeffes. Co-founded with cellist Helen Liebmann, it toured extensively during the 1980s and 1990s. The band's sound is not easily categorized, having elemen ...

, and was recorded at The

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, on 9 July 1987. It was produced by Simon Jeffes and published by

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. The cover painting is by

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. The CD edition included four extra tracks not featured on the LP edition.

LP release

Side 1 # "Air a Danser" (5:17) # "Yodel 1" (4:46) # "From the Colonies" (3:30) # "Southern Jukebox Music" (4:53) # "Numbers 1 to 4" (7:44) Side 2 # "Beanfields" (4:28) # "Paul's Dance" (2:19) # "Oscar Tango" (3:20) # "Music for a Found Harmonium" (3:18) # "Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots)" (4:39) # "Prelude and Yodel" (3:56) # "Giles Farnaby's Dream" (4:13)

CD release

# "Air a Danser" (5:17) # "Yodel 1" (4:46) # "Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter" (2:27) # "From the Colonies" (3:30) # "Southern Jukebox Music" (4:53) # "Numbers 1 to 4" (7:44) # "Telephone and Rubber Band" (4:05) # "Air" (4:00) # "Beanfields" (4:28) # "Paul's Dance" (2:19) # "Oscar Tango" (3:20) # "Music for a Found Harmonium" (3:18) # "Isle of View (Music for Helicopter Pilots)" (4:39) # "Prelude and Yodel" (3:56) # "Dirt" (5:27) # "Giles Farnaby's Dream" (4:13)

Personnel

Simon Jeffes Simon Harry Piers Jeffes (19 February 1949 – 11 December 1997) was an English classically trained guitarist, composer and arranger. He formed, and was the primary performer of, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He was the composer of the ballet ''Sti ...

- ''Guitar, Pianica (3), Bass (5, 12, 15), Cuatro (7, 10, 16), Ukelele (4, 9), Electric Guitar (13, 14)'' *

Helen Liebmann Helen Liebmann was a founding member (along with Simon Jeffes) of the avant garde music group Penguin Cafe Orchestra in 1973. A cellist, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the olde ...

- ''Cello'' *Bob Loveday - ''Violin'' *Ian Maidman - ''Percussion, Bass (1), Cuatro (10)'' *

Steve Nye Steve Nye is an English music producer for several artists. Career Nye started out as a tape op at AIR Studios in London in 1971, where producer Rupert Hine discovered him. There he got into engineering (and later producing) many well-known a ...

- ''Piano, Electric Piano, Harmonium, Cuatro (10)'' *Neil Rennie - ''Ukelele, Cuatro (1, 9)'' * Geoffrey Richardson - ''Viola, Bass (2), Mandolin (9), Ukelele (10), Cuatro (14), Electric Guitar/Penny Whistles (15)'' *Julio Segovia - ''Percussion'' *Paul Street - ''Cuatro, Ukelele (4, 7, 9), Guitar (10, 13, 14)''

References

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