Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
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 folkclassical 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 cymbals1 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
Tracklist
1. Air A Danser
2. Yodel 1
3. Telephone And Rubber Band
4. Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter
5. Pythagoras's Trousers
6. Numbers 1-4
7. Yodel 2
8. Salty Bean Fumble
9. Paul's Dance
10. The Ecstasy Of Dancing Fleas
11. Walk Don't Run
12. Flux
13. Simon's Dream
14. Harmonic Necklace
15. Steady State
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