Name: Union Cafe
Brand: Penguin Cafe

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-ERATP-105

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-12-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4050486114353

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Penguin Cafe

Genre US

Modern Composition

Label US

Erased Tapes

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO) was founded by British composer Simon Jeffes (1949 - 1997). Jeffes, born in Sussex, England and raised in Canada and around Europe, began playing the guitar at the age of 13. He studied classical guitar, piano, and music theory at Chiswick Polytechnic before dropping out. 

While living in Japan in 1972, Jeffes developed an interest in ethnic music, particularly African styles. Inspired by this fusion of sounds, he launched the PCO as a platform for his eclectic compositions. The concept of "Penguin Cafe" came to him in a dream during a bout of food poisoning in the south of France that summer. Describing their music as "modern semi-acoustic chamber music," the PCO's unique style blends traditional Western sounds with diverse influences.

Contact Information: 
Penguin Cafe Orchestra 
2 Hippodrome Place 
London W11 4NG 
UK 
Tel: +44 20 7792 3493 
Fax: +44 7792 7855

This re-mastered and re-packaged edition of the 1993 Penguin Cafe Orchestra album Union Cafe is now available on Erased Tapes. Union Cafe turned out to be the last collection of new material the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra recorded. This album retains the intimacy and charm of all previous works, featuring a recording of the electric Aeolian harp on Cadbury Hill, Somerset, and a piece dedicated to the memory of John Cage recorded at the Real World recording week in 1992. Union Cafe is a vigorous re-statement of traditional Penguin musical values. The African inheritance was again rearranged in Kora Kora; Venezuelan cuatro strums infused Lifeboat; the sound of the deep South of America was subtly hinted at in Nothing Really Blue.

Union Cafe

Music US

Discover Union Cafe by Penguin Cafe on Erased Tapes. Remastered CD edition of the 1993 album, featuring unique musical values and diverse influences.