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Penguin Cafe OrchestraOriginEnglandGenresYears active1972–1997, 2007Labels, /Associated actsThe Anteaters, The Orchestra That Fell to Earth,WebsiteThe Penguin Cafe Orchestra ( PCO) was an band led by English guitarist. Co-founded with cellist, it toured extensively during the 1980s and 1990s. The band's sound is not easily categorized, having elements of exuberant and a aesthetic occasionally reminiscent of composers such as.The group recorded and performed for 24 years until Jeffes died of an inoperable in 1997.
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Several members of the original group reunited for three concerts in 2007. Since then, five original members have continued to play concerts of PCO's music, initially as The Anteaters, then as The Orchestra That Fell to Earth. In 2009, Jeffes' son founded a successor band simply called. Although it includes no original PCO members, the band features many PCO pieces in its live repertoire, and records and performs new music written by Arthur. Contents.History After becoming disillusioned with the rigid structures of and the limitations of, in which he also dabbled, Simon Jeffes became interested in the relative freedom in and decided to imbue his work with the same immediacy and spirit.Describing how the idea of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra came to him, Jeffes said:“In 1972 I was in the south of France. I had eaten some bad fish and was in consequence rather ill. As I lay in bed I had a strange recurring vision, there, before me, was a concrete building like a hotel or council block.
I could see into the rooms, each of which was continually scanned by an electronic eye. In the rooms were people, everyone of them preoccupied.
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In one room a person was looking into a mirror and in another a couple were making love but lovelessly, in a third a composer was listening to music through earphones. Around him there were banks of electronic equipment. But all was silence. Like everyone in his place he had been neutralized, made grey and anonymous. The scene was for me one of ordered desolation. It was as if I were looking into a place which had no heart.
Next day when I felt better, I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It started out 'I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random' and it went on about how the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing. And if you suppress that to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what's most important. The way lyrics housefires. Whereas in the Penguin Cafe your unconscious can just be.
It's acceptable there, and that's how everybody is. There is an acceptance there that has to do with living the present with no fear in ourselves.”The group's debut album, recorded from 1974–76, was released in 1976 on 's experimental label, an offshoot of the label. It was followed in 1981 by, after which the band settled into a more regular release schedule.The band gave its first major concert on 10 October 1976, supporting at. They went on to tour the world and play at a variety of music festivals as well as residencies on the in London. From 1976–1996 they played in the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, and throughout Europe and the UK. In March 1987, they were the subject of an episode of the arts series, where they performed 'Air', 'Bean Fields', 'Dirt' and 'Giles Farnaby's Dream'. Evolution.
This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( February 2017) Simon Jeffes experimented with various configurations live and in the studio, including an occasional 'dance orchestra' and a quintet of strings, oboe, trombone and himself on piano. On the studio albums, he sometimes played several instruments, and brought in other musicians according to the needs of each piece.There were a number of incarnations of the live band.
Original members Gavyn Wright and Steve Nye left in 1984 and 1988 respectively. Bob Loveday replaced Gavyn Wright on violin. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( February 2017) After Jeffes' death in 1997, the band's members continued to meet occasionally, but there were no new recordings or public appearances for over ten years. The band briefly reformed in 2007, with the lineup as featured on Concert Program (minus Julio Segovia), with Jennifer Maidman now handling Simon's guitar parts. The original members, joined onstage by Simon Jeffes's son Arthur on percussion and additional keyboards, played three sold-out shows at the in London.After those concerts, wanted to form a new group without any of the original PCO members.
He called it 'Music from the Penguin Cafe', later shortened to simply Penguin Cafe. The all-new ensemble, sometimes inaccurately billed as The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, played at a number of festivals in 2009, combining Penguin Cafe numbers with new pieces. In 2010 they appeared at the (with Northumbrian piper ).With the Penguin Cafe name now being used by Arthur, the original PCO members who wanted to continue playing their music needed an alternative name.
Four of them, multiinstrumentalists Geoffrey Richardson and Jennifer Maidman, trombonist Annie Whitehead, and pianist Steve Fletcher, have since played some festivals as The Anteaters. They have been joined by percussionist Liam Genockey, well known as a member of, and who played live with the Penguins in Italy in the 1980s. The name 'Anteaters' came from an incident on the 1983 PCO tour of Japan when Simon Jeffes discovered there was a craze for penguins in the country. He joked that, if the fashion changed, the orchestra would have to change its name to 'The Anteater Cafe Orchestra'. In October 2011, the same lineup appeared at the Canterbury Festival in Kent, UK, performing two hours of original PCO music as The Orchestra That Fell To Earth. They have continued to perform under that name.Notable pieces.
This section needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: – ( February 2017) The Penguin Cafe Orchestra's most famous piece may be 'Telephone and Rubber Band', which is based around a of a UK telephone ring tone intersected with an, accompanied by the twanging of a rubber band. It is featured on the soundtracks of 's film comedy (1986) and Oliver Stone's film (1988), and in a long-running advertising campaign for the company (now ). The 1996 single ' by New York City-based English rockers featured a tweaked and fine-tuned sample of 'Telephone and Rubber Band'.
It was also the trademark song of Caloi en su tinta, an Argentinean show about artistic animation. The tape loop was recorded when Jeffes was making a phone call and discovered he was hearing a combination of a ring tone and an engaged signal due to a fault in the system. He recorded it on an answering machine.Another famous tune featured in Malcolm (among other films) is 'Music for a Found Harmonium', which Jeffes wrote on a he had found in a back street in, where he was staying in the summer of 1982 after the ensemble's first tour of. He wrote that after installing the found 'in a friend's house in one of the most beautiful parts at the edge of the city,' he 'frequently visited this instrument during the next few months, and I remember the time fondly as one during which I was under a form of enchantment with the place and the time.' 'Music for a Found Harmonium' was used in the trailer for, and over the end credits of, the 1988 movie. In the credits, many film actors and celebrities of the time invent their favourite name for an imagined child. (It was not included in the soundtrack released from the movie.)'Music for a Found Harmonium' gained exposure when it was released on the first volume in 1994.
Because its rhythm, tempo and simple structure made it suitable for adaptation as a, it was subsequently recorded by many, including,. An Irish traditional version was used on the soundtrack of the film, made in Ireland in the early 1990s. In 2004, 's cover of 'Music for a Found Harmonium' was featured in the film, and the following year in the film. The Scottish folk rock band, from, also recorded a version of the song for their debut album in 1993.Simon Jeffes composed music for the ballet, largely based on earlier compositions for the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
( co-wrote one of the pieces. ) The ballet was first performed by the in 1988, and the music was released as an album under Jeffes' name.Another of the group's well-known pieces is 'Perpetuum Mobile' from their 1987 album. It has been used in several films, television and radio programmes, including as the main theme of the Australian stop-motion animated film (2009), and in the. Swedish DJ sampled the main melody for his song 'Fade into Darkness'. Because it was written in the, the melody seems to end and repeat one beat sooner than expected, giving it the feel of a perpetual motion device.Another piece called 'Numbers 1-4' was featured in a dance film shown on episode 1604, when Mr. McFeely brings the video in to show.
The film featured dancers from Pittsburg's, who used fitness balls in the dance.A number of pieces including 'Numbers 1-4', 'Perpetuum Mobile' and 'Music for A Found Harmonium' were included on the soundtrack of the Channel 4 documentary series. Uses by others. This section contains a. Please any relevant information into other sections or articles.
( February 2017)Covers. 'Music for a Found Harmonium' was covered as a by the group on their 1990 album, and subsequently by other folk acts including band Matto Congrio in 1993, the on their Echoes album (2008), and by Irish accordion player Sharon Shannon on her first album. The tune was also covered by the violin ensemble in 1993, at the time consisting of former fiddler, fiddler, and fiddler, on their self-titled debut album. 'Music for a Found Harmonium' was the basis for a mix by which appeared (along with both the original and the cover version by Patrick Street) on Penguin Cafe Orchestra's 1996 'best of' album, Preludes, Airs and Yodels, and subsequently on The Orb's own 2001 remix compilation '.
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