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Music for The Third Policeman

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Released
  
1990

Length
  
44:32

Artist
  
Django Bates

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
January–February 1990

Label
  
Ah Um Records

Release date
  
1990

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Music for The Third Policeman (1990)
  
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Music for The Third Policeman is an album by the composer and musician Django Bates and the Powder Room Collapse Orchestra. It was released by Ah Um records in 1990. The album is based on the 1939 comic novel The Third Policeman, written by the Irish author Flann O'Brien.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album with 2.5 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Ouverture"
  2. "1st person"
  3. "John Divney"
  4. "Peculiar terms of physical intimacy"
  5. "Getting the box (also an introduction to De Selby)"
  6. "Martin Finnucane"
  7. "A journey is an hallucination"
  8. "Is it about a bicycle?"
  9. "Mac Cruiskeen"
  10. "Atoms"
  11. "Scaffold, serenity, and one legged army"
  12. "Soft as the softest softness"
  13. "The beginning"

Personnel

  • Django Bates – keyboards, tenor horn, percussion, trumpet on track 7, saw, bicycle pump
  • Steve Buckley – tin whistles, alto saxophones, 2nd clarinet on track 2, bicycle bell
  • Steve Berry – cello, double bass at the start and at the end of track 3
  • Martin France – drums, percussion, scaffold, crossbar
  • Stuart Hall – banjo, violin, 12 string guitar, mandolin, backpedalling
  • Sarah Harrison – violin, hooter
  • Robert Juritz – bassoon
  • Dai Pritchard – clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Eddie Parker – bass flute on tracks 5 and 11
  • Dave Pattman – bongos on track 12
  • Ashley Slater – bass trombone on final note of track 3

    • References

    Music for The Third Policeman Wikipedia
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