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GoGo Penguin have been internationally hailed as electrifying live performers, innovative soundtrack composers, and as a collective who channel electronic and club culture atmospheres alongside, minimalist jazz and rock influences to create music that pulses and flows from the dancefloor to meditative inner-worlds, transporting us into brand new realms. Their latest album GGP/ RMX (Blue Note Lab) is a brilliant, vivid, reimagination of their self-defining masterwork, GoGo Penguin and features an array of the world’s sharpest artist-producers and remixers, including remixes from Cornelius, Machinedrum, Yosi Horikawa, Rone, Nathan Fake, 808 State, James Holden, Shunya, Clark, Portico Quartet and Squarepusher. GGP/RMX was released May 7, 2021. GoGo Penguin are: Chris Illingworth (piano), Nick Blacka (bass), Jon Scott (drums). Plus Joe Reiser (sound production).
Necessary Fictions
By GoGo Penguin
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Umbra; Fallowfield Loops; Forgive the Damages; What We Are and What We Are Meant to Be; Background Hiss
Reminds Me of Rain; The Turn Within; Living Bricks in Dead Mortar; Naga Ghost; Luminous Giants; Float (Loi Krathong,
2003); State of Flux; Silence Speaks.
GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions
by Geno Thackara
What exactly is the entity known as GoGo Penguin? After several recordings developing a niche they call “acoustic electronica"--an amorphous recipe of rock-and techno-oriented hooks played on jazz instruments in real time--one might have thought we had the answer to that question with the eponymous GoGo Penguin (Blue Note, 2020). Like many self-titled albums, it made ...
Fabienne Ambuehl: Thrive
by Neil Duggan
Swiss singer and pianist Fabienne Ambuehl emerged onto the jazz scene with her debut album Glitterwoods (Traumton) in 2015. She cultivated her musical skills at the Lucerne School of Music, also studying with Asaf Sirkis and Gwilym Simcock. Following a move to London, she releases her follow-up album Thrive. To help realise her evolving ...
Kraków Jazz Week: Seifert Competition & Jazz Juniors
by Martin Longley
Kraków Jazz Week Cricoteka/Hevre Kraków, Poland September 26th-October 3rd 2024 This was the second Kraków Jazz Week, but there is a much deeper history unearthed when studying the roots of this new event. Fundamentally, it involves the amalgamation of two long-running festivals: the Seifert Competition and Jazz ...
Reflecting The Past, Embracing The Future
by Bob Osborne
Jazz has been around long enough to allow for a massive library of ground breaking legacy music to build up. Current musicians often look back at that legacy, sometimes they use it, sometimes they build upon it and add a current perspective. In this way jazz is allowed to grow and develop whilst remaining true to ...
Most Read Album Reviews: 2023
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is read, and the reviews listed below represent our top viewed in 2023. Though All About Jazz generates mostly organic traffic (i.e. via search and from within), results can be skewed by heavy social sharing. Still, most of the albums listed below align with staff favorites.
Everything Is Going to Be OK
By GoGo Penguin
Label: Sony/XXIM
Released: 2023
Track listing: You're Stronger Than You Think; Glimmerings; Saturnine; Glow; Friday Film Special; Soon Comes Night; An Unbroken
Thread of Awareness; We May Not Stay; Everything Is Going to Be OK; Last Breath; You're Stronger Than You Think
(Revisit); Parasite; Sanctuary.
Geno Thackara's Favorites of 2023
by Geno Thackara
It's been another year of surprises around every corner--faces old and new, material fresh or freshly remade, and full of endless imagination in every case. As always, this is just my selection of most-played favorites in no particular order. Matthew Halsall An Ever Changing View Gondwana Records It's almost ...
New music from Bob Holz, Evan Marien, Go Go Penguin and Jaak Sooaar
by Len Davis
Featuring new releases from Bob Holz, Wojtek Pillichoiwski, Evan Marien, Dana Hawkins, Go Go Penguin and Jaak Sooaar. Plus music from Italian guitarist Rugerro Robin, Wasafiri and Japanese band Casiopea.Playlist Bob Holz “World Turned Upside Down" from Holz-Stathis Collaborative (MVD) 00:00 Wojtek Pilichowski “Vihoora" from Conjunction (Self Produced) 06:16 Evan Marien-Dana Hawkins “Water On ...
