Results for "Penguin Cafe"

Penguin Cafe

Handfuls Of Night

By Penguin Cafe

Label: Erased Tapes Records Ltd.
Released: 2019
Track listing: Winter Sun; Chinstrap; Chapter; Adelie; At the Top of the Hill, They Stood…; Pythagoras on the Line Again; The Life of an Emperor; Gentoo Origin; Midnight Sun.

Mark Sullivan’s Best Releases of 2019

by Mark Sullivan
December 17, 2019

Another year, another diverse group of releases. There were an unusual percentage of albums outside of jazz for me this year, for whatever reason. Although I opted not to review any albums by pianist/composer Satoko Fujii, she released five diverse projects—even after her 2018 marathon of an album a month to celebrate her 60th birthday—so I ...

Penguin Cafe: Handfuls Of Night

by Mark Sullivan
October 2, 2019

Penguin Cafe continues in the tradition of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, producing individualistic minimalist music using acoustic instruments. Previous album The Inconstant Sea (Erased Tapes Records Ltd, 2017) dabbled in dance music, with versions of Simian Mobile Disco and Kraftwerk tunes. This time the theme is the Antarctic: Greenpeace commissioned composer Arthur Jeffes to write four ...

The Imperfect Sea

By Penguin Cafe

Label: Erased Tapes Records Ltd.
Released: 2017
Track listing: Ricercar; Cantorum; Control 1 (Interlude); Franz Schubert; Half Certainty; Protection; Rescue; Now Nothing (Rock Music); Wheels Within Wheels.

Penguin Cafe: The Imperfect Sea

by Mark Sullivan
May 4, 2017

Composer Arthur Jeffes started Penguin Cafe in 2009 to pay homage to his father Simon Jeffes' Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and to continue the concept. While the new band still plays some of the original repertoire, Arthur has composed new music all along. Like Simon Jeffes' music, Arthur's shows the influence of folk music and minimalism. There's ...

Penguin Cafe: Snape, UK, August 12, 2011

by Bruce Lindsay
August 19, 2011

Penguin CaféSnape MaltingsSnape, UKAugust 12, 2011 Penguin Café occupies a unique place in the universe: a comforting and welcoming place where English eccentricity mingles happily with musics from the four corners of the Earth...and one or two other places, too. When the 10-piece group performed at Snape Maltings, with its own ...