Music for The Third Policeman

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Music for The Third Policeman
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Soundtrack album by
Released1990
RecordedJanuary–February 1990
Genre Jazz
Length44:32
Label Ah Um Records
Django Bates chronology
Cashin' In
(1988)
Music for The Third Policeman
(1990)
Summer Fruits (and Unrest)
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

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

It was performed live July 2000. [3]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album with 2.5 stars. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Ouverture" - 2:13
  2. "1st Person" - 5:58
  3. "John Divney" - 3:52
  4. "Peculiar Terms of Physical Intimacy" - 2:28
  5. "Getting the Box (Also an Introduction to De Selby)" - 3:53
  6. "Martin Finnucane" - 4:11
  7. "A Journey is an Hallucination" - 4:54
  8. "Is it About a Bicycle?" - 3:24
  9. "Mac Cruiskeen" - 3:22
  10. "Atoms" - 0:17
  11. "Scaffold, Serenity, and One-Legged Army" - 4:34
  12. "Soft as the Softest Softness" - 4:12
  13. "The Beginning" - 3:48

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic Review
  2. Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (Penguin, 1992: ISBN   978-0-14-015364-4).
  3. Festival Grec. Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
  4. Allmusic: Music for The Third Policeman accessed 24 May 2013