Ahead of the release of their much anticipated 10th Anniversary Remastered Edition of A Matter of Life… 2021, Penguin Cafe share the remastered studio version of the album's closing piece Coriolis, along with a video of Arthur Jeffes performing a 2021 live rendition of the song on the dulcitone in his second home in Tuscany.

Watch: https://youtu.be/Kt0A8vWyM5k

The remastered track, a duet between Arthur Jeffes on piano and Oli Langford on violin, incorporates the aesthetics of the original PCO, seasoned into a confident and redefined style, maintaining that quintessentially English sound, but adding a fresh direction and a sense that they are evolving into something new and very much their own.

"The version of Coriolis that ended up on the record is actually a mix of several takes we recorded on a very slow, cosy day in the studio. It had been raining for days and Oli, our violinist, and I had the basic idea and played around with it. In the end the initial recordings sounded so beautiful I just cut together the best parts to make it into the song we have here. It always makes me think of rain."

Penguin Cafe will be performing songs from the album live at the Barbican Hall tonight, on March 22, the day this single gets released, followed by a UK festival tour this summer including The Great Escape. The album will be released via Erased Tapes on April 29.    

"Some of the most unusual and delightful music of the last 40 years” — The Guardian
“Stylistically, A Matter of Life… is a near-perfect match with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra of old” — Music OMH

Tour Dates:

22.03. London (UK) — The Barbican Centre
29.04. Belfast (IE) — The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (with Peter Broderick)
01.05. Cheltenham (UK) — Cheltenham Jazz Festival
12.05. Brighton (UK) — The Great Escape — Erased Tapes 十五 showcase
14.05. Saffron Walden (UK) — Saffron Hall
29.05. Hay-on-Wye (UK) — Hay Festival
01.07. Swadlincote (UK) — Timber Festival
29.07. Barnsley (UK) — Underneath The Stars Festival
24.09. Stroud (UK) — Hidden Notes (sold out)

A Matter of Life... 2021

Coriolis

Penguin Cafe - Coriolis

Migratory 

Robot Koch and BlankFor.ms team up for a new single release on Koch´s imprint Trees and Cyborgs.
"Migratory" is their 2nd collaboration track, following their successful first single "Subtle Ones".

Making use of BlankFor.ms signature degraded tape and synth sounds and Koch`s atmospheric and low-end heavy production, this pulsing hypnotic track combines detailed sound design with a contemplative mood and an uplifting feel that works equally well on the dancefloor as it does for headphone listening.

Both Robot Koch and BlankFor.ms have been busy this year so already, with upcoming artist projects, film and video game scores, and high-profile remixes for other artists.

Bio Robot Koch

Robot Koch is an award-winning artist/composer from Berlin, living in Los Angeles.
He has been steadily crafting an original sound that expertly combines a deep and cinematic atmosphere, emotional reflection, and forward-thinking production.
He remixed the likes of Max Richter, Rammstein, and Christian Löffler, collaborated with conductor Kristjan Järvi and the Nordic Pulse Orchestra, and played high-profile live shows at Coachella, Mutek, Sonar Festival, and Boiler Room.
Koch`s visual music lends itself to pictures and has been used on numerous TV Shows, Movie Trailers, Feature Films, and Ad campaigns over the last few years.
When he’s not pursuing his own artistic projects, Koch can be found working as a producer and writer for both indie and major artists worldwide, gaining gold and
Platinum records for his productions. 
He won several awards for his immersive Full Dome Live Show "Sphere" which sold out in Planetariums and Festivals worldwide and also won the German Music Composers Award in the category
'Best Composer Electronic Music’.
He has amassed over 75 million streams and garnered over half a million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. Koch is currently working on a movie- and videogame score as well as on new artist projects


Bio BlankFor.ms

BlankFor.ms uses degraded tapes and analog synthesizers to create sounds meant more for the body than the mind. He has become a notable figure in the world of experimental/ambient music, garnering accolades, high-profile remixes, and 95k followers across social media. 

His performance videos on Instagram were pivotal in inspiring an entire genre of top-down musical documentation on social platforms. 

His samples have been used by thousands of artists, including a cameo in the recent Ethan Gruska/Bon Iver single "So Unimportant". 

Over the next year he has a massive "Artist Series" instrument coming out with one of the world's most popular VST makers, a feature video in Ableton's "One Thing" series, and a video game score with an award winning software publisher. 

His contributions can be heard on records by Micah Jasper, Kiefer (Stones Throw), Robot Koch (Trees and Cyborgs), and many others. He has provided remixes for The Cinematic Orchestra, Arthur Moon, and Para One. Tyler grew up in rural Wyoming.

Robot Koch and Blankfor.ms- Migratory

Yunism

Pure of Heart

Windy Fields

unfinished (!), unreleased, unmastered. 
from the forthcoming die Nachtstunde album 'You collect me' (2016).

Die Nachtstunde - Here Is The Hour, Awaking In The Sea

'Exoterra' is the first work of Dustcraft, the new project by Michael Cottone/The Green Kingdom, focused on dub techno and ambient sounds and also includes remixes by Mind over MIDI and WNDFRM.

Tracklist:

01- Earthbound
02- Solar Wind 
03- Hypersleep
04- Interstellar Dust
05- Fathoms
06- Exoplanetary Oceans
07- A New Home
08- Hypersleep (Mind Over MIDI Remix)
09- Exoplanetary Oceans (WNDFRM's Solaris Dub)


Written and Produced by Michael Cottone.
Additional Remixes by Mind Over MIDI and WNDFRM.
Mastering by Zzzzra.
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Dustcraft - Fathoms

Andrea Belfi live at Radialsystem on 16 April, 2016.

Enoy this great souvenir of Andrea Belfi's visit to the UM:LAUT stage. Back in April 2016 he opened two sold-out evenings with a solo show before supporting Nils Frahm and his Nonkeen band for their release tour kick-off at Radialsystem V. 

Special thanks to Andrea for the great performances, and for mixing and mastering this tune. And cheers to Carlo Grippa for the amazing sound and the recordings.
 
Recorded at Radialsystem, Berlin.
Published with permission of the artist.
Photo: Markus Werner

If you like what you hear, support the artist!
www.andreabelfi.com

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Andrea Belfi @ UM:LAUT - Live Snippet

Aloft

"Who Knows, Who Knew" is taken from the album Lies, Deception and Sin by Niskogradba.

Release date: 18.10.2018
Format: CD/Digital

All tracks sampled, looped and produced by Niskogradba 
between November 2017-March 2018 
Mastered by Roel Weerdenburg

Limited edition of 40, Professionally manufactured high quality CDr's, Handmade packages, hand numbered.
Different colored wallets with envelopes: Brown Kraft, Blue and Red.
Bigger and smaller sleeves, smallest size in transparant bag.
Photo's.

Order: https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lies-deception-and-sin

Niskogradba - Who Knows, Who Knew (Taken from Lies, Deception and Sin - Out Now)

Through Inland - Vanessa Wagner - was able to gift us with imaginary landscapes, through which the listeners could roam freely in a gently throbbing natural world, and where each note was a step and every sound formed a path… Inland Versions is the electronic extension of the project and includes 6 reworks by GAS, Suzanne Ciani, Vladislav Delay, Marc Melia, Hüma Utku and Nadia Struiwigh

Your are listening to GAS rework aka https://soundcloud.com/wolfgang_voigt for Vanessa Wagner´s piano solo interpretation for Wim Mertens "Struggle for Pleasure".

Inland Remixes available in 12" in Kompakt Shop in Cologne from 27.09.2019
& free to share on Spotify / Apple Music / Deezer from today on !

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Vanessa Wagner - Struggle For Pleasure GAS Version [Wim Mertens]

from 'Methoden und Maschinen' [CD|2LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den323
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/bersarinquartett

Nikolai Erastowitsch Bersarin, the ambivalent colonel general, communist and first Soviet city commander of Berlin, had an accident with his motorcycle in 1945 at the age of only 41. In the enraptured, now somewhat more compressed and at the same time more colorful (not more cheerful) electronic sound(track)s of the strange Bersarin Quartett, in its East Block sea landscapes with latently kitsched wallpaper and double bottoms, shadows of this strange figure Bersarin can be guessed - still or again - at a good 70 years later. But perhaps that is also irrelevant. This 'band' could just as well play imprisoned in the remixed court of the eternal, crazy North Korean presidents, whether embodied in an orchestra, quartet or as masked solo entertainer. It brings us supposedly post-rock and post-socialist grandeur, which has degenerated very slightly, in a great new splendour amidst all our irritations and emotions. And everything takes place in our heads.

The Bersarin Quartett - after thirteen years and three epic, (bad-)dreamlike beautiful albums - have settled down with their fourth album "Methoden und Maschinen" ("methods and machines"). For the time being. Because at the same time many new layers and paths are emerging. Playing live in many arrangements and at great concerts in Slovenia, Poland, Czech Republic and Russia, this has grown into a quartet, but it is still the project of DJ, musician, graphic and audio designer Thomas Bücker. The numerous concert evenings with Andy Stott, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Murcof, Dictaphone or Hidden Orchestra, among others, are undoubtedly noticeable on "Methoden und Maschinen". The Bersarin Quartett continues to stand for the outing of a complex musical subconscious. 'The Dark Side of the Moon', only that the moon is shimmering here, at least now and then. It's probably also due to the sun shining on it. Minimalism and bombast go together. Constantly developing and entangling contrasts, paradoxes and contradictions are the motor. Constantly caught between two sides. Don’t believe the hype!

Methoden und Maschinen

Bersarin Quartett - Das ist alles, was wir haben

Robot Koch
contact@treesandcyborgs.com

Award-winning artist and composer Robot Koch is a visionary sonic explorer whose work lies at the intersection of sound, art, and immersive experiences. 
With a profound fascination for the convergence of science and spirituality, he creates music that transcends traditional boundaries, crafting auditory landscapes that invite listeners on a deep inward journey.
With a discography that spans numerous albums and well over 100 Million streams, Robot Koch has established himself as a sonic explorer in the realm of electronic, ambient, and modern classical music. His compositions have been featured in several movies, and TV shows, and his own immersive AV experiences sell out venues worldwide.

Koch won several international awards for his work, including  "Best Immersive Experience" at the DTLA Film Festival, collaborated with Grammy-nominated Estonian conductor Kristjan Järvi and his Orchestra, remixed artists like Max Richter, Christian Loeffler, and Anoushka Shankar.

His innovative approach and dedication to exploring new sonic territories have established him as a leading figure in the world of electronic music and beyond.

Robot Koch and Blankfor.ms- Migratory

Robot Koch

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