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GoGo Penguin: GGP/RMX

Read "GGP/RMX" reviewed by Geno Thackara


It was really just a matter of time. With the spirit of techno and trance being such an essential part of GoGo Penguin's musical makeup, the seeds of a remix project have been there all along; they often compose their songs with beat programs before deciding how to arrange them for an acoustic trio, and adding little sonic tweaks to their instruments is just as much a part of the process afterwards. It's perfectly apt that a range of clever ...

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GoGo Penguin: GoGo Penguin

Read "GoGo Penguin" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Calling GoGo Penguin a jazz group is sort of like calling Canada a big snowy place. Nobody would consider such a simple term adequate to describe the trio today, least of all the members themselves--bassist Nick Blacka explains that with album number five, GGP has “finally come to accept that we really just aren't a jazz band ... That has been really liberating and freeing for all of us." If anything, it's surprising that these three might have ever felt ...

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GoGo Penguin: Ocean in a Drop

Read "Ocean in a Drop" reviewed by Geno Thackara


While William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand, and the poet Rumi wrote that each person is not a drop in an ocean but rather the opposite, GoGo Penguin's ever-expanding sonic world hints at similar multitudes yet to be experienced. It rarely sounds like “just" piano, bass and drums in these hands, and the scope of Ocean in a Drop doesn't feel limited by the brevity of its EP length. They hit the ground running and pack ...

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GGP/RMX

Blue Note Records
2021

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GoGo Penguin

Blue Note Records
2020

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Live from Studio 2

Blue Note Records
2020

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Ocean in a Drop

Blue Note Records
2019

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A Humdrum Star

Blue Note Records
2018

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Man Made Object

Blue Note Records
2016

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