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[nedison]

In honor of the entire Penguin Cafe Orchestra studio discography coming back into print on vinyl, here are some PCO album covers and their associated paintings by Emily Young.

[burlveneer-music]

Penguin Cafe - Handfuls of Night - Arthur Jeffes & co’s new album of Antarctic-inspired pastoralia is out today on Erased Tapes

On October 4th Erased Tapes present Handfuls of Night — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes’ journey following in Scott’s footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there. Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesizer, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth. 

Handfuls of Night’s tones, textures and melodies evoke otherworldly expanses, which at different junctures are either foreboding, awe-inspiring or peaceful. There’s subtly morphing rhythmic repetition throughout, somewhere between minimalism, krautrock and the piano-cascades of label peer Lubomyr Melnyk. Jeffes creates a kinetic, circling motion, which drives the album forward in the form of a musical trip that mirrors the physical journey it was inspired by. 

Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, after bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians including members of Suede and Gorillaz, to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. All tracks composed by Arthur Jeffes except: 6. based on Pythagoras on the Line composed by Simon Jeffes 1993 Band Arthur Jeffes piano (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9); harmonium (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8); percussion (2, 3, 5, 7); melodica (5) Vincent Greene viola (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) Darren Berry percussion (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8) Andy Waterworth double bass (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) Neil Codling Khono acoustic guitar (2); granular synthesis (1, 2, 4, 9) Des Murphy xylophone (2, 3, 7, 8); Sunrise Portable Organ (6) Tom Chichester Clark harmonium (3, 5, 6, 7) Cass Browne percussion (2, 3, 6, 7) Oli Langford violin (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8); Stroh Viol (1) viola (7,8) Rebecca Waterworth cello (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) Additional string arrangements by Oli Langford (2, 3, 7, 8) and Vincent Greene (8)

[tiesandtea]

penguincafe.com/tour-dates

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The Big Bang Theory season 9 / Funny moments

[burlveneer]

Penguin Cafe - Ricercar (Erased Tapes Records)

The iconic Penguin Cafe join the Erased Tapes family and open a brand new chapter to their unique world with new album The Imperfect Sea – out on Erased Tapes 5th May 2017.

A penguin stands in the middle of a scorching desert, far away from its natural habitat. This mirrors composer Arthur Jeffes’ journey and exploration into a new musical territory. Penguin Cafe have evolved into something of their own at the hands of Arthur who started the band in 2009 with the continuation and homage to his father’s legacy, to the late Simon Jeffes’ Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Now, their upcoming album echoes reminiscent sounds that embrace the new.

Predominantly self-composed, the new album also features covers of electronic works by Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk, along with a re-working of Simon's 'Now Nothing'. Arthur has developed from the traditional folk and jazz heritage Penguin Cafe Orchestra is known for into another realm of blissful ambience and dance music, recreated using strictly acoustic elements.

“For this album I wanted to effect a departure from where we’d been up to now. The idea was to create a musical world that would feel familiar to an audience more used to dance records but stay true to our own values. So we replaced electronic layers with real instruments: pads with real string sections, synths with heavily-effected pianos, and atmospheric analogue drones with real feedback loops ringing through a stone and a piano soundboard.”

On the day of release, the band will play a headline show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, commencing the beginning of this new adventure for Penguin Cafe.

[tiesandtea]

1st Penguin announcement of 2019!

Two intimate shows in the southwest this spring, marinetheatre & intobodmin 29/30 MARCH 

looking forward to announcing further dates soon..... 

29/3/19 Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 

30/3/19 St Petrocs Church Bodmin 

www.penguincafe.com/tour-dates/

[tiesandtea]

Penguin Cafe - Wheels Within Wheels (Simian Mobile Disco cover) Live at TivoliVredenburg, 16 January 2020

[theerecoup]

Song Of The Day: Penguin Cafe, "Pythagoras On The Line Again" Penguin Cafe is the project of Arthur Jeffes, the son of the late Penguin Cafe Orchestra…