I was 17 when Simon Jeffes passed away and sadly I never got the chance to meet him whilst he was still walking this earth with his infamous Penguin Cafe Orchestra. There are some parallels between ...

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 ...

Originally conceived by Simon Jeffes (when delirious with illness from a dodgy fish dish) in 1972 as a utopian locale for dystopian chaparral, over five albums Penguin Café Orchestra proffered sunlit ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A giant penguin effigy on a semicircular Victorian outdoor stage and a painted backdrop of an Italian renaissance ...

Penguin Cafe Orchestra remained stubbornly difficult to categorize to the very end, which sadly came with the death of co-founding member Simon Jeffes in 1997. A brain tumour brought about the sudden ...

Penguin Cafe folds in sounds from around the world and throughout music history — Africa, Kraftwerk, Brazil and Franz Schubert. The music of Penguin Cafe is like no other. Its origins date back to the ...

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Borrowing from the repetitive minimalism of Philip Glass and the ambient stylings of Brian Eno, Penguin Cafe’s Arthur Jeffes carries on the tradition that began with his father’s Penguin Cafe ...

The music of Penguin Cafe is like no other. Its origins date back to the early '70s, within fever dreams Simon Jeffes had that were brought on by food poisoning. In those dreams he imagined a ...

On their fourth album, Penguin Cafe venture further from the musical lineage of Penguin Cafe Orchestra than on previous releases. Composer Arthur Jeffes deemphasizes some of the musical quirks ...