Music for a Found Harmonium

Wikipedia says Jeffes wrote it on a harmonium found in a back street in Kyoto in summer 1982, after the band's first Japan tour, and that he installed it in a friend's house and visited often for months, describing an enchantment with the place and the time. In a Sounds interview on April 27, 1985 with Peter Culshaw, which called it the group's new single, he framed it as a harmonium found abandoned in a back street; the page quotes him, with a paraphrased tool wording we could not verify, that it is warm and affectionate music about the survival of the heart in a harsh life. It runs 3:34 on the album, with Kuma Harada on bass. The live version on When in Rome... runs 3:18, recorded on July 9, 1987.

It was used in Malcolm (1986), She's Having a Baby (1988), Hear My Song, Napoleon Dynamite (2004, via a Patrick Street cover), It's All Gone Pete Tong, Year of the Dog, Capitalism: A Love Story and The Founder. Irish traditional musicians recorded it as a reel, including Patrick Street, De Dannan, Kevin Burke and Sharon Shannon, since its rhythm, tempo and simple structure suit a reel; the Shetland band Rock Salt and Nails recorded it on Waves (1993). It appeared on the first Cafe del Mar compilation in 1994, which Arthur Jeffes saw as the first time the band seemed cool in the way Ibiza is cool, and which Simon reportedly found funny. We found no chart entry, and could not verify setlist data.