Name: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Brand: Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

eegcdr11

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-07-10

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

Universal

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5099921273421

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Artist

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Remastered with new liner notes. In 1979 Simon Jeffes bought an old garage in a quiet terrace in North Kensington and proceeded to convert it into a recording studio. It was here that in the following year the Penguin's began recording an album which, for the first time, properly defined the breadth of Jeffes' musical ambitions. The lilting folk-classical groove sketched out in 'Giles Farnaby's Dream' was taken to new places. Hybrid vigour ran riot. One way of conveying the pungent flavour of the album called Penguin Cafe's Orchestra is simply to list the instruments featured on it. The 10 members between them were found in charge of: guitars (2), cuatros (2) ukeleles (3) pianos (1 and 1 electric) bass guitars (2) violins (3) dulcitone (1), harmonium (1) accordion (1) oboe (1) cello (1) viola (1) electronic organ (1) drums, shakers, bongoes etc (2) cymbals(1) penny whistle (1) ring modulator (1) metal frame (1) rubber band (1). The 15 tracks rambled from a radical rearrangement of an old tune by the Shadows, 'Walk Don't Run', to a piece hung around a riff made of pure musique concrete: a recording of a telephone ring tone intersected by the engaged signal. (you used to hear that a lot in the days before BT, but only Jeffes heard it as a musical opportunity and looped it onto a tape. endlessly adapted for commercials and films, telephone and rubber band is probably now his most famous piece).

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