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Penguin skipping through forest

Contemporary Classic

ペンギンカフェ

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In A Time Lapse is the representation of the bringing together all of life's experience and emotions into a single moment of time. Recorded in a remote monastery near Verona and written over a period of 2 years it is as epic and emotional as Divenire and as experimental and adventurous as Nightbook.

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In A Time Lapse

Brothers

A studio recording of The Civil Wars' cover of Portishead's "Sour Times", available exclusively Friday, November 29 as a part of the Between the Bars EP on 10" vinyl, for sale at your local independent record store for Record Store Day Black Friday.

Sour Times

"Musical Calligraphies"

Music from Khorasan
including a song by Parviz Meshkatian, lyrics by Malek ol-Shoara Bahar
Live in Toronto, 
Tirgan Festival
July 2013

Sepideh Raissadat (Vocal)
Kiya Tabassian (Shurangiz)
Naghmeh Farahmand (Percussion)
Sardar Mohammadjani (Oud)

قطعاتی از موسیقی خراسان
از جمله آهنگی از پرویز مشکاتیان با شعر ملک الشعرا بهار
کنسرت تورونتو 
فستیوال تیرگان
مرداد ۱۳۹۲

سپیده رئیس سادات
کیا طبسیان
نغمه فرهمند
سردار محمدجانی

"Musical Calligraphies" 02 - music from Khorasan

الــــكــــلــــمــــات

بصى من ورا الستارة على الناس اللى ماشية تحت
بيسجدوا لأصنام شبعوا فيها نحت
تعالى اعلمك إزاى أنا بنحت عمرى ما اركع
أى حاجة حلوة فى عينيك اكرهيها فورا

ها ، مش حاسة بتحسن عن من لحظة
على الأقل مفيش جزيرة هتعوميلها أصلا
طيب ، اثبتى على كدة ، إنتى مكانك هنا
مش هنعمل أى حاجة بلاش نعملهم على نفسنا

متطفيش النور عن مين هندارى اللى بنعمله
مش هنبقى فى المستنقع ونجيب عطر نستنشقه
بصى لمنظرنا ، هربانين من ضلمة لضلمة
إنتى وأنا عارفين كويس إن جهنم فى إنتظارنا

مبحطش أكليل ، فوق مساكن ميتين
يوم حسابنا مش هتدارى هتستخبوا يا كدابين
مريض بأحدث مرض نفسى هيكتشفوه ع الكوكب
مش هتلاقى أحسن منى ولا هتلاقى أسوأ


مستنى إننا هنقرب رغم كوننا بنبعد أوى
مستنى تقاطع تانى لخط مايل مع مستوى
أقصر طريق ما بيننا أقصر جزء فيه ملتوى
أقوى شيئ ربط ما بيننا كان فى حياتنا شيئ ثانوى


ابعد عنها شوية متمسكش فيها بضفرك
اللى أنت بتتنفسه دة ثانى أكسيد كربونها
بطل تتدقق فيها وأنت صاحى وقت نومها
مش هتحس إنك سهرت حارس غطاها الليلة بطولها

هى عارفة إنك مريض ، هى حابة إنك مريض
هى فاهمه معنى النظرة ، بس كارهة إنك صريح
قدف أنت وهى لحد وصولها بالسلامة
وامشى من حياتها لكن سيبلها أنقاض كلامك

تعالى اعلمك إزاى أنا بجرى عمرى ما انهج - منهج
شايفة أبعد نجمة أقرب حد منى أبعد
وبزيد البعد ، تزيد القوة ، يضيق النفس ، أحس بذعر
يطول نفسى ، ومهما جعت ، ازيح عن طرقى كل طعم

ارمى فوق العرش التاج ، غيرى برضة مش ملاك
أنا مرض بقول أنا مرض هو مرض هيقول أنا علاج
بحطم الأصنام اللى انتى عايشة بتعبديهم
عشان تتوبى مش تعمليلى واحد وتسجديله


مستنى إننا هنقرب رغم كوننا بنبعد أوى
مستنى تقاطع تانى لخط مايل مع مستوى
أقصر طريق ما بينا أقصر جزء فيه ملتوى
أقوى شيئ ربط ما بيننا كان فى حياتنا شيئ ثانوى

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El-7ob Fe 3onok Zogaga

Written by: El Joker
Music: Free Beat
Vocals: El Joker
Master and mix by: El Joker
© 2014 El Joker

الحب فى عنق زجاجة

04 Piano Piece # 2 - from Piano Music - re-released this month - penguincafe.com

That, Not That

Coriolis

Landau

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Islands: Essential Einaudi is the first time that all of Einaudi's best known music appears in a single collection. It’s available as both a single disc and special double disc version. Islands also includes new tracks The Earth Prelude and High Heels as well as two new remixes of Lady Labyrinth and Eros.

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Divenire

Una Mattina

Nuvole Bianche

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QBETA - M'ARRIFRISCU E M'ARRICRIU feat. Mario Incudine

David Garrett-Summer - From The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

The first album from the latest installment of the Penguin Cafe with Simon Jeffes' son, Arthur. Limited print-run.

“Penguin Cafe continues to occupy a unique place in music: nothing else has ever sounded quite like it. Eccentric, charming, accommodating, surprising, seductive, warm, reliable, modest and unforgettable: it's a true friend” ∼ Brian Eno, February 2010

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra were a uniquely innovative, exploratory set of musicians who enjoyed a cherished period from 1972 to 1997, and continue to hold a special place in many hearts. Their inception was as original, imaginative and idiosyncratic as the music they created…

During the summer of 1972 the English composer Simon Jeffes had a dream, experienced during a severe bout of food poisoning in the South of France
"I was laying in bed delirious, sort of hallucinating for about 24 hours. I had this one vision in my mind of a place that was like a modern hotel, with all these rooms made of concrete. There was an electronic eye which scanned everything. In one room you had a couple that were making love, but lovelessly. In another room there was somebody just looking at himself in the mirror, just obsessed with himself. In another room there was a musician with a bank of synthesizers, wearing headphones, and there was no sound.
This was a very terrible, bleak place. Everybody was taken up with self-interested activity which kept them looped in on themselves. It wasn't like they were prisoners, they were all active, but only within themselves. And that kept them from being a problem or a threat to the cold order represented by the eye.
Next day when I felt better, I went to the beach. As I sat there a poem came to me. It began ‘I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random.’”
The music of the Penguin Cafe, Simon broadly regarded as "a very big yes to the survival of the heart in a time when the heart is under attack from the forces of coldness, darkness and repression." When forced to describe it more precisely, he called his music "imaginary folklore" and "modern semi-acoustic chamber music." He very much liked the comment of a Japanese girl who attended a Penguin concert in Japan and who said afterwards that the music sounded strange, because it was as if she'd heard it a long time ago.

To realize this somewhat fevered dream, Simon utilized many different instruments and orchestrations including elements of African, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Classical & Minimalist music, using a variety of instruments from strings, pianos, harmoniums, slide guitars, cuatros, kalimbas, experimental sound loops, mathematical notations and more.

The last official Penguin Cafe Orchestra release was Concert Program recorded 1995, a document of the touring set they were playing at the time...

Sadly in 1997 Jeffes passed away, marking the closure of that period of Penguin Cafe’s history. However, in 2007, to mark ten years since Simon's death, his son Arthur Jeffes, re-assembled the original musicians to perform a last run of concerts, spanning three nights at London’s Union Chapel, in tribute to both his father and the music that he created. The reception to these concerts was an affirmation that the music held a vibrant life of its own and subsequently Arthur felt that it was appropriate to embark on a more extensive revisiting….

Commissioning a fresh set of musicians ranging from luminaries from The Royal College of Music to notable performers and members from bands such as Suede, Gorillaz, Delakota and Razorlight, the newly envisioned incarnation of the Penguin Cafe undertook a series of performances under the name Music from the Penguin Cafe.

The first of these would be invitation from The Teenage Cancer Trust to perform at The Royal Albert Hall, to be filmed for a future charitable release.

Following this, over the next six months, Music from The Penguin Cafe appeared at various festivals, venues and Arts events over the summer of 2009, initiated by a debut at The Manchester Royal College of Music. This was to be followed by appearances at Port Eliot Literary Festival, Glastonbury, Bestival, The Big Chill, Womad, Edinburgh Arts Festival, the Snape Proms, and the arts festivals of Galway and Milan. Each performance was met with glowing receptions, and heart-warming reviews.

It was during this period that Arthur Jeffes had also began to incorporate his own new material, universally received as natural yet inspired extensions to his own father’s work, thus marking the beginning of a new episode in the Penguin Cafe's rich and turbulent history...

By the end of this run the band was newly invigorated, and the music now seasoned into a fresh, confident and redefined style. With this in mind, it was then decided to bolster the Royal Albert Hall filmed footage with a live studio recording of the set performed over the summer shows. These recordings book-ended this first chapter in the new band's history, mirroring the last record made by the original Penguin Cafe band.

On the 9th day, of the 9th month of 2009, at 9.00am, these 9 musicians walked in to Air Edel Studios and over the next 9 hours recorded 21 tracks live. So much for numerology….

The CD of tracks recorded that day have now been coupled with a DVD of the filmed recitals from The Royal Albert Hall, to be released as a single package under the title 'Music From The Penguin Cafe - Live at the Royal Albert Hall', with all proceeds from this release are going to The Teenage Cancer Trust.

Moreover as everyone involved in this project generously donated their time and talents for free, from performing, filming, editing, recording, mixing, artwork, mastering and manufacturing, when you pay £10 (plus vat, sadly) for the album, Teenage Cancer Trust receives £10.

ARTHUR JEFFES “We're immensely proud of the music on this record, the performances therein, and being able to donate it all to Teenage Cancer Trust. This whole process has proved to be the first steps on this new journey for the Penguin Cafe and 2010 will see both a new album and tour.”

Inspired by the both the process & reception of this endeavor and the events of the previous summer, it would seem that the doors to the Penguin Cafe have opened once more.

In The Back Of A Taxi

Giles Farnaby's Dream

Horns Of The Bull

Perpetuum Mobile

Fox And The Leopard

Oscar Tango

Salty Bean Fumble

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Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, after bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians including members of Suede and Gorillaz, to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. 

2019 sees Erased Tapes present Handfuls of Night — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album The Imperfect Sea — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes’ journey following in Scott’s footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there.

Handfuls of Night is out on October 4th amid a string of UK live dates, before taking the album on a worldwide tour in 2020 with more dates to be announced