Volo Volo
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| Volo Volo | ||||
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| Released | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Worldbeat | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Alan Winstanley, Clive Langer, Jerry Harrison | |||
| Poi Dog Pondering chronology | ||||
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Volo Volo is an album by the American worldbeat band Poi Dog Pondering.[1][2] It was released in 1992 via Columbia Records.[3] The album title is allegedly Swahili for "revolver".[4] Poi Dog Pondering supported the album with a North American tour.[5]
The album was a commercial disappointment, with only 50,000 copies sold by the fall of 1993.[6] Columbia dropped the band; to regroup, several members of Poi moved from Austin to Chicago.[7]
The band built the songs by creating the rhythms first, before adding other instruments on top of the drum patterns.[8] About half of the album was produced by Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer.[9] Jerry Harrison also worked on Volo Volo.[10][11]
