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Posts Tagged Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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May 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 63: Penguin Café Orchestra – “Music From The Penguin Cafe”

Simon Jeffes’ mercurial compositions as Penguin Café Orchestra have long intrigued me. And yet, here I am listening to the debut (nearly self-titled) album for the first time, or first times, as it’s already on repeat-play. I first heard the Penguin Café Orchestra via its most famous piece, Telephone and Rubber Band, and that was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1001, 1001 Albums, 1001 Albums Challenge, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, 1970s, 1976, Arthur Jeffes, Music From The Penguin Cafe, Penguin Cafe, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Café Orchestra – “Music From The Penguin Cafe”, Seventies, Simon Jeffes, Talk Radio, Telephone and Rubberband, The 1001 Albums Challenge, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 63, The 1001 Albums Challenge # 63: Penguin Café Orchestra – “Music From The Penguin Cafe”, When In Rome ·

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July 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Woo: Awaawaa

Woo Awaawaa New General Catalogue/Palto Flats Renewed interest in the buried catalogue of British brothers, Mark and Clive Ives – recording under the name Woo, has seen a dig through the archives as well as the reissuing of the albums. Following on from the wonderful When The Past Arrives – a collection that’s still on […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1975-1982, Album Review, Awaawaa, British, Clive Ives, England, Faust, Mark Ives, Mike Oldfield, New General Catalogue, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Previously Unreleased, When The Past Arrives, Woo ·

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July 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Stuart McCallum: The Ultimate Form

Stuart McCallum The Ultimate Form Hepworth Gallery Composed as a ballet score, commissioned to accompany Linder Sterling’s collaborative performance work The Ultimate Form – the latest Stuart McCallum solo piece exists – and works – as an album in (and of) its own right. The opening piece, The Ancestors, is the longest track here – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adrian Utley, Album Review, Ballet, Cinematic Orchestra, Commissioned Piece, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Phil France, Score, Stuart McCallum, The Ultimate Form ·

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July 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Woo: When The Past Arrives

Woo When The Past Arrives Drag City It’s an album you swim through – as much as listen to. It’s a new collection by Woo – but that means it’s all old recordings, bits and pieces, leftovers even; for Woo is now a new-seeming act and this has been put together as a new album, on […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Cluster, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, When The Past Arrives, Woo ·

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May 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Penguin Cafe: The Red Book

Penguin Cafe The Red Book Penguin Cafe Simon Jeffes – creator of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra – died in 1997. His son Arthur, a composer in his own right, has been recording under the name Penguin Cafe since 2009. It’s both tribute to the spirit of his father’s idiosyncratic (not quite classical/so much more than […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Arthur Jeffes, PCO, Penguin Cafe, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Simon Jeffes, The Red Book ·

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