Donkey Rhubarb (EP)

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Donkey Rhubarb
Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb album cover.jpg
EP by Aphex Twin
Released August 14, 1995 (1995-08-14)
Length 24:10[1]
Label Warp
Producer
Aphex Twin chronology
...I Care Because You Do
(1995)...I Care Because You Do1995
Donkey Rhubarb
(1995)
Girl/Boy EP
(1996)Girl/Boy EP1996

Donkey Rhubarb is an 1995 EP by electronic music artist Richard D. James under the alias of Aphex Twin. The EP was released on August 14 1995 by Warp. The EP contains a version of the song "Icct Hedral" from James album ...I Care Because You Do by Philip Glass.

Release

Donkey Rhubarb was released on August 14 1995 by Warp on 12" vinyl and compact disc.[2] Donkey Rhubarb charted for one week in the United Kingdom at number 78 on the UK Singles Chart.[3] A music video for "Donkey Rhubarb" directed by David Slade was made in 1995.[4] The video was released on DVD by Warp in September 2009.[4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]

Spin referred to the track "Donkey Rhubarb" as a "silly steeldrum reverie".[5] Ned Raggett of AllMusic gave the EP a four star rating, praising "Donkey Rhubarb" for its "lovely main melody dressed up with quick beats, bleeps, and the like".[1] Raggett declared that a surprise was Phillip Glass' version of "Icct Hedral", stating that "the original's chilly melody made even more serenely beautiful and disturbing all at once thanks to Glass' fine orchestration".[1]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Richard D. James[6] except where otherwise noted. 

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Donkey Rhubarb"     6:08
2. "Vaz Deferenz"     5:49
3. "Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)"   Richard D James, Philip Glass 8:05
4. "Pancake Lizard"     4:31

Credits

Credits adapted from Donkey Rhubarb disc.[6]

  • Richard D. James – producer (on tracks 1, 2 and 4), writer
  • Philip Glass – writer (on track 3)
  • Kurt Munkasci – producer (on track 3)
  • Michael Reisman – producer (on track 3)
  • Anne Pope – recording and mix engineer (on track 3)
  • Rich Costey – additional engineer (on track 3)

See also

References

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