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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Penguin Cafe Orchestra:
🎵 Perpetuum Mobilehttps://questionsofyou.bandcamp.com/track/perpetuum-mobile-penguin-cafe-orchestra-cover
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Self-Titled Summer | Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1981, UK)
Our next Self-Titled Summer spotlight is on number 279 on The List, submitted by friscolala. Here’s a quick rundown:
- Point of origin(s): The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO) was founded by British guitarist and composer Simon Jeffes in 1972. The “Penguin Cafe” part of the name as well as the inspiration for the music resulted from a vivid dream/hallucination Jeffes experienced due to some bad shellfish. The group’s debut album, Music from the Penguin Café (1976), was credited to the “Penguin Café Quartet” of Jeffes plus Helen Liebmann on cello, Steve Nye on piano, and Gavyn Wright on violin and viola. Released on Brian Eno’s experimental label, Obscure, that album kickstarted the conundrum of how exactly to classify PCO’s sound. The album we look at here, their 2nd, continues that conundrum and expands the original quartet into a 10-piece “orchestra”, with the addition of Braco (percussion), Giles Leaman (oboe), Neil Rennie (ukulele), Geoffrey Richardson (a bunch of stuff), Julio Segovia (cymbals), and Peter Veitch (accordion, violin).
- Tasting notes: Whimsical art rock? Minimalist chamber folk if said chamber was a Cirque du Soleil tent and the folk was for the acrobats’ warm-up which inevitably turned into a magical tea party/all-night shindig? The soundtrack to Amélie if the characters were penguins and not humans and it was set in a small town in Australia not France?
- Standout track: “The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas”
- Where are they now?/RIP: PCO would go on to release three more studio albums and became a very beloved band; snippets of their work can be found in a wide variety of places including film, radio/podcast theme music, and even a Mister Rogers’ Neighorhood episode. Though the lineup would change here and there, the group toured extensively for a good 20 years, pretty much right up until Jeffes died in 1997 at the age of 48. In 2007, following a series of well-received reunion concerts, Jeffes’ son Arthur Jeffes formed a new group called Penguin Cafe, which plays PCO music and original work in the vein of PCO. A 2025-26 “Penguin Cafe Performs Music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra” tour is underway as we speak, with UK dates currently posted for tomorrow (September 6) and November.
- Websites: Wikipedia
Happy listening!
- YouTube: Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
- Discogs: Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Penguin Cafe Orchestra
#1980s #artRock #folk #instrumental #music #musicDiscovery #PenguinCafe #PenguinCafeOrchestra #selftitled #SimonJeffes
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2025 Hey Siri Songs - Day 123
"Hey Siri. Play Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra."
#Nite #HomePod #Music #PenguinCafeOrchestra
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/perpetuum-mobile/714695543?i=714695827
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1VoJlWMXQaCuC59MGyR36r
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#Music #PerpetuumMobile #Orchestra #PenguinCafeOrchestra #MaryAndMax #SignsOfLife #Tune #SimonJeffes #UK
One of those lovely tunes you may have heard repeatedly but never known anything about. To me, it’s always been the incidental music in the beautiful Australian film “Mary and Max”, and it’s currently my ringtone!
“Perpetuum Mobile” by Simon Jeffes and The Penguin Café Orchestra. It’s been viewed millions of times on YouTube, and deserves to be viewed millions more.
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Music for a Found Harmonium, live in Bremen October 1985
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Vor fast 30 Jahren, nämlich 1994, erschien die erste LP/Disc der Serie #CafeDelMar. Mit den drölfzig Alben, die unter diesem legendären Titel bis heute in der Folge erschienen, kommt man längst nicht mehr nur bis Ibiza, sondern locker bis zum Mond. Nun gab es auf dem allerersten Album einen seltsamen Ausreißer, der ganz ohne das sonst übliche vollelektronische Equipment auskam - ein Track mit dem Titel "Music for a Found Harmonium", und als Interpret wurde das #PenguinCafeOrchestra genannt. So kamen wohl viele Menschen erstmals mit dieser Truppe in Berührung. Für die meisten blieb es bei dieser einen Begegnung. Doch das Penguin Cafe Orchestra hat mehr Beachtung verdient. Seine Ursprünge reichen in die 70er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts zurück. Hier ein Video, dass die Pinguine vorstellt:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=1Ekd9UdRfSQ
Wikipedia weiß noch mehr dazu:
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Putting it out into the ether that I'd love to play #violin in some kind of freewheeling #chambermusic group in #NJ or #NYC. Thinking #PenguinCafeOrchestra #RaymondScott #TurtleIsland #LoungeLizards Something portable (ie easy to transport and setup), acoustic, and adventurous.
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Authors should be sober, they should be modest, I know...
...But this piece I've just written, omg I like it so much!
My apologies...
Night at the Penguin Café:
https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/night-at-the-penguin-caf
#minimalism #minimalmusic #avantpop #penguincafeorchestra
"I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random"!
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CW: 1993 - Scherzo and trio from "Union Cafe" by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra
The final studio album from Simon Jeffes' chamber jazz-classical project, "Union Cafe" is like a big box of rich chocolates, perhaps too much to enjoy in one sitting.
Jeffes died in 1997, but his work lives on at the intersection of intellectual and accessible, Penguin Cafe have a new album this month.
Six points if you recall where you've heard this recently.
#Popiversary2 #PenguinCafeOrchestra
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Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NPpRJoYISSQ&feature=share
#PenguinCafeOrchestra
#MaryAndMax
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No toda la música está hecha para el baile, el desenfreno y el hedonismo.
Hay música hecha para la calma y la introspección.
Para mirar hacia dentro y encontrar ese centro que a veces perdemos en la vorágine de los días.
Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, la Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
#musicaalternativa #PenguinCafeOrchestra #simonjeffes #minimalismo #LaHistorietaMusical
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Good timezone fediverse,
Today's song is Music for a found Harmonium by Penguin Café OrchestraThe Penguin Cafe Orchestra were an avant-pop band led by English guitarist Simon Jeffes. Co-founded with cellist Helen Liebmann. The band's sound is not easily categorized, having elements of exuberant folk music and a minimalist aesthetic occasionally reminiscent of composers such as Philip Glass.
https://songwhip.com/penguin-cafe-orchestra/musicforafoundharmonium
#music #UK #PenguinCafeOrchestra #minimalism #AvantPop #SongOfTheDay
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For people of a certain age Telwphone and Rubber Band from this album is quite triggering…
#vinyl #vinylcommunity #penguincafeorchestra #spacehog #nowplaying -
The final two episodes of #LimitlessWithChrisHemsworth are really quite beautiful, and the final sequence has one of the best uses of the #PenguinCafeOrchestra 's "Perpetuum Mobile" that I can think of.
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@tuckerteague wow, haven't heard Tangerine Dream in ages. If you like them, you'll love #PenguinCafeOrchestra circa the same timeframe that TD was big.