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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 – […]

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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 […]

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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 […]