Music for The Third Policeman
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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
.
Django Bates
Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...
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
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish author Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written between 1939 and 1940, but after it initially failed to find a publisher, the author withdrew the manuscript from circulation and claimed he had lost it. The book remained...
, written by the Irish author Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien
Brian O'Nolan was an Irish novelist, playwright and satirist regarded as a key figure in postmodern literature. Best known for novels such as At Swim-Two-Birds, The Third Policeman and An Béal Bocht and many satirical columns in The Irish Times Brian O'Nolan (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966) was...
.
Track listing
- "Ouverture"
- "1st person"
- "John Divney"
- "Peculiar terms of physical intimacy"
- "Getting the box (also an introduction to De Selby)"
- "Martin Finnucane"
- "A journey is an hallucination"
- "Is it about a bicycle?"
- "Mac Cruiskeen"
- "Atoms"
- "Scaffold, serenity, and one legged army"
- "Soft as the softest softness"
- "The beginning"
Personnel
- Django BatesDjango BatesDjango Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...
- keyboards, tenor horn, percussion, trumpet on track 7, saw, bicycle pump - Steve BuckleySteve BuckleySteve Buckley is a British jazz musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who is most often heard playing alto, soprano and tenor saxophones, penny whistle and bass clarinet....
- 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 FranceMartin FranceMartin France is an English jazz drummer based in London. He has been the rhythmic backbone on more than 60 albums working with some of the world's finest musicians....
- drums, percussion, scaffold, crossbar - Stuart HallStuart Hall (musician)Stuart Hall is a British multi-instrumentalist from the UK. He is equally renowned for his talent on violin, guitar and double bass, and several less mainstream string instruments such as the oud, pedal steel, bouzouki, saz, banjo, kemence, tres, lyra & gudulka....
- banjo, violin, 12 string guitar, mandolin, backpedalling - Sarah Harrison - violin, hooter
- Robert Juritz - bassoon
- Dai Pritchard - clarinet, bass clarinet
- Eddie ParkerEddie Parker (musician)Eddie Parker is an English jazz flautist and composer.As well as being one of Britain's leading jazz flautists, Eddie is a multi-instrumentalist and often plays keyboards during live performances and workshops....
- bass flute on tracks 5 and 11 - Dave Pattman - bongos on track 12
- Ashley SlaterAshley SlaterAshley Slater is a UK based trombone player and best known for his work with Norman Cook in the band Freak Power. He was born in Schefferville, Canada in 1961...
- bass trombone on final note of track 3