You know the music. You just don't know whose it is.

I first heard Penguin Cafe Orchestra on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction — then realised I'd been hearing them in HP commercials for years without ever knowing their name.

A piece on the dream, the music, and the son who carries it forward:
🎵 You've Already Heard It: The Forgotten Name of Penguin Cafe Orchestra
https://write.as/hiroaki-satou/youve-already-heard-it-the-forgotten-name-of-penguin-cafe-orchestra

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra:
🎵 (The Roaring of a) Silent Sun

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In this episode you’ll learn

• The origins and concept behind Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• Simon Jeffes’ compositional philosophy
• The fusion of classical, folk, and minimalism
• Why their music feels “imaginary” yet deeply emotional

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#Minimalism
#Ambient

https://youtu.be/Em1aIz3ONZc

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra:
🎵 Perpetuum Mobile

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https://questionsofyou.bandcamp.com/track/perpetuum-mobile-penguin-cafe-orchestra-cover

https://open.spotify.com/track/1MIwRUsj23h7cYn6mNiqHw

Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Piano Music by Simon Jeffes, released on Zopf Music in 2000.

Simon Harry Piers Jeffes (19 February 1949 – 11 December 1997) was an English classically trained guitarist, composer and arranger. He formed, and was the primary performer of, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He was the composer of the ballet Still Life at the Penguin Cafe, of the much-recorded piece Music For A Found Harmonium, and other music recorded by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. - Wikipedia

This is a posthumous collection of his piano pieces, and lovely it is too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv6ssvVnUYk&list=PLtN-smkms0-mwRyZwTuNUljm1u22eOPfX&index=1

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