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GoGo Penguin: Ocean in a Drop

Read "Ocean in a Drop" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
October 19, 2019

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 ...

Album

A Humdrum Star

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Prayer; Raven; Bardo; A Hundred Moons; Strid; Transient State; Return to Text; Reactor; Window.

Article: Interview

GoGo Penguin: Just Another Band From The Small Blue Planet

by Ian Patterson
February 9, 2018

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star in a lost galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." This somewhat gloomy prognosis might sound like a line straight from Douglas Adam's surrealistic comic novel ...

Article: Album Review

GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star

Read "A Humdrum Star" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
February 9, 2018

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." -Carl Sagan GoGo Penguin's snappy-yet-offbeat name is a pretty good indicator of their personality—partly inspired ...

Article: Album Review

GoGo Penguin: A Humdrum Star

Read "A Humdrum Star" reviewed by Phil Barnes

by Phil Barnes
February 8, 2018

If 2016's Man Made Object, their first for Blue Note, was an exercise in consolidating past triumphs while signposting potential ways forward, then there can be no doubt that with A Humdrum Star GoGo Penguin have stepped into a version of that future. Ostensibly the title is a self-effacing reference to a Carl Sagan TV series ...

Article: Live Review

GoGo Penguin at Out To Lunch

by Ian Patterson
January 25, 2018

GoGo Penguin Black Box / Out To Lunch Arts Festival Belfast, N. Ireland January 19, 2018 GoGo Penguin's first gig of 2018 saw the Manchester trio return to Belfast's Black Box for the Out To Lunch festival --a month-long celebration of comedy, documentaries and the broadest spectrum of music imaginable--from opera, ...

Album

Man Made Object

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: All Res; Unspeakable Word; Branches Break; Weird Cat; Quiet Mind; Smarra; Initiate; Sbfisysih; Surrender to Mountain; Protest.

Album

Live at Abbey Road

By GoGo Penguin

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Branches Break; Gbfisysih; Initiate; Ocean in a Drop.

Article: Extended Analysis

GoGo Penguin: Man Made Object

by Phil Barnes
February 15, 2016

Its stick or twist for GoGo Penguin as they release this, their Blue Note debut and the first of a reputed three album deal. Do they push ahead, expanding their palette of electronica seen through the prism of acoustic jazz, or retreat a tad in deference to their new paymasters by emphasising the more traditional jazz ...

Article: Live Review

GoGo Penguin at Riverbank Arts Centre

by Ian Patterson
November 6, 2015

GoGo Penguin Riverbank Arts Centre Newbridge, Ireland October 31, 2015 With the Curragh Racecourse just a few furlongs away, Newbridge is more famous for horse racing than for its bridge that spans The Liffey. However, the independent Riverbank Arts Centre--just forty minutes from Dublin--is doing its bit to broaden the ...